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Marvel Comics or DC Comics?
Marvel Comics or DC Comics?
Are you Marvel or DC?
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I used to love both pretty equally, but with "The New 52" business, Marvel has become vastly superior. There's basically four books I like from DC now and that's it. I can't stand this new world that's confusing and contradictorily new and yet the same that's just erased vast swathes of beloved runs.
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But I'm not really into comics anyway.
But I'm not really into comics anyway.
used to be a huge DC fan... Green Lantern was one of my favourites back then, but then Geoff 'Retcon' Johns took control of Green Lantern, completely destroyed it, turning it into a joke universe covered by disney coloured puke, and then he took control of all of DC Comics, turning the entire DC universe into a joke...
I still read a few DC comics, like Nightwing, Batgirl, Supergirl, Hellblazer, Dark Justice League... but nowhere near as many as i used to... to be honest, Geoff Johns drove me away from comics, just like he drove quite a few people away from DC
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I still read a few DC comics, like Nightwing, Batgirl, Supergirl, Hellblazer, Dark Justice League... but nowhere near as many as i used to... to be honest, Geoff Johns drove me away from comics, just like he drove quite a few people away from DC
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Marvel. I like more of their characters. And they have Spider-Man.
Used to be DC, but the whole new 52 reboot has killed it stone fucking dead for me, so now neither.
I like parts of the new 52 (like they finaly got those gay panties of batman) but hate other parts (like how everyone needs a fucking V neck collar now.
Actully, Diseny actully own Marvel, but DC are owned by Warner Brothers! :P
I'm a huge GL fan as you can tell, and I still read all but GLC (I hate John Stewart, he's so boring). I hate the alpha lanterns though, they took some great characters like greenman and turned them into emotionless monsters that seem to be the love child between the manhunters, John Stewart, and the Daleks. I do like the emotional spectrum, but I'd like them to very it out a bit, how about we have red lantern one issue, but hector hammond then next? Problem solved. I'd also like Alex Nero to be the human member of the sinestro corps (and the sinestro corps to still exist :P) that way Kyle still has his own vilian instead of getting in the middle of ights between Saint Walker and Agent Orrange over and over again. Also want Magor Force and Effigy back. Don't give shit balls about Hector Hammond, and I'd like a permanent host for Parallax (my favourate villian).
BTW for the record, I'm A DC man myself, I just can't get into a Marvel Comic as well as I can A DC (then again, I only really red GL titles, Earth-2 and Swamp-thing, thinking about dumping Swampie though). I love Wolverine, X-Men, and Spider-man (Spideys probably the reason I'm into comics today), but everyone in the Marvel universe seems to be involved with one of the Avengers teams, we only need one team. Just do what DC did and have one team with Marvels main heroes (IE Spider-man, ironman, Wolverine, Thing, Daredevil, Thor, Captin America (I hate CA though).)
Marvel. Mainly...
Back when I was a kid, I used to get old issues/British anthology reprints of silver/bronze age Marvel comic books - mainly second hand from a local market. I stopped buying them back in the early 80's when I lost interest in comic books, but have got back into them recently. But not much Marvel, though.
Back when I was a kid, I used to get old issues/British anthology reprints of silver/bronze age Marvel comic books - mainly second hand from a local market. I stopped buying them back in the early 80's when I lost interest in comic books, but have got back into them recently. But not much Marvel, though.
I chose Marvel but in the past 20+ years I've had periods where I'd buy more of one vs the other. In the mid80's till early 90's I bought nearly all Marvel with exception of Batman and JLA.
Zero Hour was the shift and from the early 90's till '00 I bought mostly DC with ASM, Ghost Rider, SSurfer and Hulk being the exceptions.
Spider-Man Chapter One, reboots, another DC Crisis and my interest waned and buying dropped off. Got an equal number of books from both but wasn't getting but about a dozen or so a month tops.
nu52 I mostly used as the marketing gimmick intended, try some characters you haven't ever tried or not in a while. Which is why I'm not too vested in what's going on with Bats,Supes or the GL books. Of the dozen I opted for only Resurrection Man is getting cancelled and that made it a full year even. Still I'm trimming back come years end.
May actually only be getting Punisher: War Zone(to wrap up Rucka's run), Aquaman, TMNT and the 5 Valiant titles come 2013. Budget dictates the need + I have plenty of trades to catch up on.
Zero Hour was the shift and from the early 90's till '00 I bought mostly DC with ASM, Ghost Rider, SSurfer and Hulk being the exceptions.
Spider-Man Chapter One, reboots, another DC Crisis and my interest waned and buying dropped off. Got an equal number of books from both but wasn't getting but about a dozen or so a month tops.
nu52 I mostly used as the marketing gimmick intended, try some characters you haven't ever tried or not in a while. Which is why I'm not too vested in what's going on with Bats,Supes or the GL books. Of the dozen I opted for only Resurrection Man is getting cancelled and that made it a full year even. Still I'm trimming back come years end.
May actually only be getting Punisher: War Zone(to wrap up Rucka's run), Aquaman, TMNT and the 5 Valiant titles come 2013. Budget dictates the need + I have plenty of trades to catch up on.
As a youngster, the Marvel comics were easier to get here, though DC characters appeared more on tv.
I think I enjoyed the Marvel characters more
I think I enjoyed the Marvel characters more
i absolutely hate the Parallax and Ion symbiont idea... I'd voice my real thoughts on it, but it would be a stream of 4 letter words that the forum would censor lol
The last time Hal was really himself was during Final Night... his sacrifice as Parallax was the shining point in his career as GL... redeeming the entire Emerald Twilight arc... The Hal that came back in Rebirth is just a cardboard cutout, no personality, no drive... nothing... i've seen more interesting personalities in a dead rodent...
The Ion and Parallax 'ideas' were great, but should have been left as names Hal and Kyle took on during their times with the Emerald Power inside them, not jumped up by the Will Whale or Fear Bug... the entire idea of them being symbionts that require hosts to act on the universe and survive through time is pathetic... like the Fear Bug said, he's driven to survive no matter what, so why did Hal sacrifice himself for the planet?
Much like any of Geoff Johns storylines, there's big enough holes to drive MAC trucks through the plot... badly written characters, poorly thought out ideas, and disrespectful to both the fans, and previous writers of Green Lantern who worked hard for over 50 years to create a mythology, then Geoff 'Retcon' Johns comes along and decides his way is better than 50 years of cohesive storyline... no thanks...
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The last time Hal was really himself was during Final Night... his sacrifice as Parallax was the shining point in his career as GL... redeeming the entire Emerald Twilight arc... The Hal that came back in Rebirth is just a cardboard cutout, no personality, no drive... nothing... i've seen more interesting personalities in a dead rodent...
The Ion and Parallax 'ideas' were great, but should have been left as names Hal and Kyle took on during their times with the Emerald Power inside them, not jumped up by the Will Whale or Fear Bug... the entire idea of them being symbionts that require hosts to act on the universe and survive through time is pathetic... like the Fear Bug said, he's driven to survive no matter what, so why did Hal sacrifice himself for the planet?
Much like any of Geoff Johns storylines, there's big enough holes to drive MAC trucks through the plot... badly written characters, poorly thought out ideas, and disrespectful to both the fans, and previous writers of Green Lantern who worked hard for over 50 years to create a mythology, then Geoff 'Retcon' Johns comes along and decides his way is better than 50 years of cohesive storyline... no thanks...
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Mainly DC. I only read a handful of Marvel titles while I read nearly ever DC title out there. I haven't read comics for 20 years however so it would hard to say what I'd be into now.
Comics - DC
Movies - Marvel
I do love most of the Batman movies made to date but overall I love the Marvel movies the best. As for comics, I'm reading 10 titles from DC's new 52. So far I'm ok with all that I've read while keeping a very open mind. For some reason I dwindled down my Marvel reading to practically nil.
Movies - Marvel
I do love most of the Batman movies made to date but overall I love the Marvel movies the best. As for comics, I'm reading 10 titles from DC's new 52. So far I'm ok with all that I've read while keeping a very open mind. For some reason I dwindled down my Marvel reading to practically nil.
I do like the concept of both Parallaxes. I like the idea of Hal going insane, and I like the idea of Hal being taken over by a monster. I think I prefer the Hal going mad storyline, but I really love the monstrous parallax toothy grin, probably the thing that drew me to him. Personaly, Kyles my favourate green lantern, don't like the fact that he's no longer Ion though, and I hate the whale Ion. Why couldn't Ion just be a ball of energy? Or Ion and Parallax could be like what Venom and othe other symbiotes are.
These days, I'm a DC. I used to be a Marvel, but I stopped reading somewhere around Secret Invasion. Marvel Now may be my avenue back in, though. My favorite heroes right now are Green Lantern and the Flash. I'm also a big Batman fan, though.
DC, for many reasons, the most shallow of which is that there are way too many overly powerful Marvel superheroes which makes compromises the "peril" element associated with comic book storytelling.
As much as I love the X Men comics, very few of the characters find themselves in any real danger. Hell, Magneto has survived so many incidents that would normally be considered fatal to other superheroes over the years that it's become some what of a recurring gag.
But hey this is coming from a DC fan, a comic franchise which features a guy who is invulnerable unless a green rock is present. The same guy who has met his physical match in Doomsday, and despite "dying", was resurrected in a fashion when it was all said and done.
The DC One Million version of Superman is so insanely powerful that he could probably take on the Kryptonite-armed team of Darkseid, Doomsday, Brainiac, Bizarro and Mr Mxyzptlk single-handedly, before bending the fabrics of reality and entering the Marvel Universe in which he proceeds to best Silver Surfer without breaking a sweat!
I find DC much more gritty than Marvel also.
As much as I love the X Men comics, very few of the characters find themselves in any real danger. Hell, Magneto has survived so many incidents that would normally be considered fatal to other superheroes over the years that it's become some what of a recurring gag.
But hey this is coming from a DC fan, a comic franchise which features a guy who is invulnerable unless a green rock is present. The same guy who has met his physical match in Doomsday, and despite "dying", was resurrected in a fashion when it was all said and done.
The DC One Million version of Superman is so insanely powerful that he could probably take on the Kryptonite-armed team of Darkseid, Doomsday, Brainiac, Bizarro and Mr Mxyzptlk single-handedly, before bending the fabrics of reality and entering the Marvel Universe in which he proceeds to best Silver Surfer without breaking a sweat!
I find DC much more gritty than Marvel also.
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