Marvel Vs DC

[Queasy]

Fun article - 5 pages so click through for the whole thing.

Of the great brand-loyalty debates -- Ford or Chevy? John or Paul? Road Runner or Coyote? Newport or Marlboro? Orthodox or Reform? -- only a very few people still sort themselves along one of the narrowest consumer dichotomies of all:

Marvel or DC?

Back when it mattered, you used to be certain. You would ally yourself and endlessly argue the merits in comic-book stores or at a convention at the airport Ramada. DC Comics, led by Superman, was for people who adored the fantasy, the Ubermensch triumphant. These readers loved skyscrapers and archvillains and sidekicks, billowing flags, unerring ethical strength.

Marvel, led by Spider-Man, was a place for the smart but troubled reader, the deeply weird. They loved the night, the underground, accidents in the lab. All that dialogue, so many thought balloons! The heroes always on some emotional ledge, and the hubris of it all -- a grittiness that came with saving the world.

DC was about younger kids in back yards, wearing bath towel capes, leaping from treehouses.

Marvel was about older kids in basements, possibly stoned, deconstructing Thor.

DC invented places to go -- Metropolis, Gotham City, Paradise Island.

In the Marvel universe, New York is New York, and it's nothing but trouble.

DC: It was always the Fourth of July.

Marvel: It was always Halloween.

DC: Comic books are a wonderful escape.

Marvel: Comic books are a dark refuge.

 

[mayonnaise]

Marvel all the way.

 

[Coquito]

I was a Marvel kid growing up, but my interests slowly spread into everything but DC.

 

[AbAbber2k]

I think the OP is a closet hentai freak.

 

[waggy]

marvel by far. Only good DC was batman and when superman died but they fricken brought back the boy scout grr.

Edit: though the marvel VS dc comics were good. also the amaglergam (whatever it was) was neat. where the marvel and dc worlds combined

 

[Spydermag68]

I collected more Marvel comic books than DC. I did collect Batman and a few others...I did pick up Superman from the time he proposed to Lois until He cleaned up after he died and came back to life

 

[neegotiator]

batman's definitely my favorite character outta DC, but i think marvel has more quality books out rite now, especially with astonishing x-men, civil war, and daredevil books going strong

 

[BW86]

Marvel

 

[Beige]

Marvelous

 

[Riceball]

Marvel, only thing I like about DC are their Vertigo Books.

 

[meltdown75]

Grew up collecting / reading Daredevil. Marvel all the way for me.

 

[shimsham]

silver surfer

 

[Ameesh]

i enjoy xmen the best out of all the superheros but I really enjoy the stuff that comes out under the vertigo label

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: mayonnaise
Marvel all the way.

 

[Blayze]

I grew up on Marvel, but then went to DC. When I stopped reading them a few years ago about 70% of my monthly titles were DC, but I still had a few Marvel ones.