DC v Marvel
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Termite Man
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but really the best comic publisher is Avatar Press ! Fucking brilliant company they are !
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
DC because of Batman - Batman's always been my favourite.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
DC, not just because of Batman and Superman but because without DC you wouldn't have had Swamp Thing, Sandman and Hellblazer and the Vertigo imprint. Without Vertigo you wouldn't have had things like Preacher or the Invisibles which along with their forerunners have made comics far more interesting than the limited superhero universes can manage....
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
Marvel by a long way - better characters and their universe was just a more interesting place. 'Secret Wars' pissed all over that 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' crap as well.
yeeeees, that's exactly the criteria to make this call on
If your a fan of comics like the fat man in the simpsons, yay for marvel. Take out your limited edition variant cover of She Hulk #700 and check it's still in near mint, you child.
If your a fan of literature presented in a graphic format, DC the way.
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
image was just a cracked out version of marvel though. Still just bodybuilders and strippers fighting bogeymen.
Kid_Eternity
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stereotypical
hospitality king
Marvel for me please. X-men (Uncanny or whatever the hell its called now), spidey, Hulk, Iceman, Fantastic Four. All awesome and kick ass.
I do like Superman and Batman though.
I do like Superman and Batman though.
Termite Man
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geekpenguin
At worky work
Batman will *ALWAYS* be my favourite comic book/graphic novel character ever. Period. But, saying that, I don't really like any other DC outputs, and I really like X-Men and sort of like Spiderman and Fantastic Four, so I voted Marvel. Batman will always pwn every Marvel character's ass (with the exception of Wolverine), but as a comic book publisher, I think Marvel has the one over on DC.
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
The Invisibles is shit.
Lucan Vortex
New improved flavour
The Maxx is the best thing published by Image by a quite considerable margin.
And painting the picture of Marvel being flippant about the creative side of comics (artist/writer) and then mentioning Image as some bastion of creative control is a joke at best.
Just ask Alan Moore how ol' Todd likes to treat people who create characters for him
And painting the picture of Marvel being flippant about the creative side of comics (artist/writer) and then mentioning Image as some bastion of creative control is a joke at best.
Just ask Alan Moore how ol' Todd likes to treat people who create characters for him
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
DC. Obv. except Transformers, which were Marvel.
ruffneck23
front left
well vote then , were almost equal
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
Taxamo Welf
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Well no, it isn't. Very good for its time, somewhat overrated all in all.
On a thread in which we are tryting to weigh up the entire output of DC against the entire output of Marvel, they really REALLY can't be called shit.
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
As a teen it was all about Marvel for me (mostly the X-Men family of titles) - DC characters seemed 2D and overly righteous by comparison - that was then though, haven't kept up with either of them for going on a decade now!
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
so throw your hat into the ring why not!
As a teen I could appreciate it's actually vice - versa. Marvel are poptastic superhero's galore. Its DC that gave me Hitman, Batman - Legends of the Dark Knight, Swamp Thing, Ronin, Watchmen. A big factor was at 13 i loved shopping in proper comic shops and second places and pilfering whatver i could from bookshops too, so its not the same as making selection from batman, superman, x men on a newsagent magasine rack. I picked up some very dark and weird things just cos they cost tuppence or were the only poorly guarded comic in Waterstones.
also, i had already discovered porn, actual porn. This seemed to lessen the appeal of Marvel (and Top Cow and Image) compared to my peers in nerd-dom who had not.
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
so throw your hat into the ring why not!
I voted according to nostagia - so sue me!
...thinking about it my late-teens was dominated by DC's Vertigo imprint - Sandman, Preacher, Shade the Changing Man etc - though when this debate comes up I always instantly think of the "mainstream" stuff...
Iguana
Well-Known Member
But Kabuki is now published by Icon which is part of Marvel.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
so throw your hat into the ring why not!
As a teen I could appreciate it's actually vice - versa. Marvel are poptastic superhero's galore. Its DC that gave me Hitman, Batman - Legends of the Dark Knight, Swamp Thing, Ronin, Watchmen. A big factor was at 13 i loved shopping in proper comic shops and second places and pilfering whatver i could from bookshops too, so its not the same as making selection from batman, superman, x men on a newsagent magasine rack. I picked up some very dark and weird things just cos they cost tuppence or were the only poorly guarded comic in Waterstones.
also, i had already discovered porn, actual porn. This seemed to lessen the appeal of Marvel (and Top Cow and Image) compared to my peers in nerd-dom who had not.
ah Hitman- my introduction to the DC universe. Pwns on marvel shite
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
ok when i was 11, but i slowly realised how nasty it was. Really fucking dull and macho by the time i was 16. i had every fucking issue and gave up on it 5 before the end. i remember some great stories early on likr when pat died, but there's always be such shit touches and the art was so cartoony and poor. Made the best of Etrigan's cameo's tho...
Fuck i don't know, maybe i'm just being bitter cos i grew out of it, it was mostly good i think. At the very least it turned me off the retarded antics of the x men et al very early on.
The one where they they get stuck in a zoo full of zombie animals is pretty funny.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I never got into Hitman felt like Ennis lite after reading Preacher...
FridgeMagnet
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The Invisibles isn't shit but it certainly isn't Morrison's best for DC. On the other hand he has also done some excellent stuff for Marvel, because he is a really good writer of comic books as long as he's kept writing to a theme rather than getting all self indulgent.
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