Marvel or DC? Not Mac or PC.

[McDuffies]

So, not being particularly in superhero genre, having read it only occasionally and seeing how much these publishers care about their worlds, chronologies, crossovers and that sorta stuff, I was wondering - if you had to choose between these two publisher's productions, which one would you choose?

[NinjaNezumi]

If I had to choose between the two of them it'd come down to a single hero:

Deadpool (Marvel)

I hate everything else both companies produce with a vile distaste that is usually only reserved for the likes of Rush Limbaugh. I cannot stand what they've done in recent history.

Deadpool makes fun of Marvel, so that's why I like him.

[Cope]

Why, Awesome Comics, of course!

[Spaceprincess]

i grew up reading Marvel in the eighties and 90's I also loved Valiant. I came to dc in the early 00's. now I don't read either. If I had to pick one I'd pick Marvel since those were the characters of my childhood. Captain America, Jubilee, Dazzler, the avengers and the Xmen before jim lee ruined them. Its not a qualitative opinion just the comics I loved.

[Phact0rri]

DC has vertigo. 'nuff said. ^_^

[Lianweijun086]

Ooh, even though I loove Batman, I'd have to go with Marvel. They've just produced way more/better superheroes in the long run. I love most of the X-Men, and then you have the Avengers. I never was a huge fan of JLA.

[Joel Fagin]

I dunno. It's hard to choose between a bunch of whiney, self-absorbed social outcasts drawn in a overly exagerated style targetted specifically at the teenage male audience involved in stories with dismal plots, miserable characterisation and contradictory deus-ex-machinas made up on the fly by feuding writers, and a second bunch of whiney, self-absorbed social outcasts drawn in a overly exagerated style targetted specifically at the teenage male audience involved in stories with dismal plots, miserable characterisation and contradictory deus-ex-machinas made up on the fly by different feuding writers.

I used to like Batman before DC gutted what made the series good. Now I just pick up those mini-series that turn out good. Ultimate Extinction, for example, or Hush.

- Joel Fagin

[Mattias]

I'd have to say DC. I read a few of my mom's old Superman, Superboy and Legion of Super Heroes comics when I was a kid. She had a lot of issues from the sixties and seventies. They ranged from bad to hilariously bad, of course, but I've hardly read anything Marvel related at all, so...

[Evil Jamie!]

I dunno. I've always liked spider-man, I guess.

[McDuffies]

I dunno. It's hard to choose between a bunch of whiney, self-absorbed social outcasts drawn in a overly exagerated style targetted specifically at the teenage male audience involved in stories with dismal plots, miserable characterisation and contradictory deus-ex-machinas made up on the fly by feuding writers, and a second bunch of whiney, self-absorbed social outcasts drawn in a overly exagerated style targetted specifically at the teenage male audience involved in stories with dismal plots, miserable characterisation and contradictory deus-ex-machinas made up on the fly by different feuding writers.

I used to like Batman before DC gutted what made the series good. Now I just pick up those mini-series that turn out good. Ultimate Extinction, for example, or Hush.

- Joel Fagin

I was hoping arguement would go towards considering which ones are less of what you said... I had an impression that DC were the ones who were overdoing it in angst, gigantic crossovers and pointless alternate universes, while Marvel were more copicats keen to soap-operish melodrama... but it's probably because I've read more of DC by chance.

DC has vertigo. 'nuff said. ^_^

Sure, but... Marvel had Groo...

[Phact0rri]

Sure, but... Marvel had Groo...

I read more vertigo than I do anything else in mainstream comics. So if I was to pick one publisher, I'd have to go for DC for that simple fact. On the marvel side the only two titles I feel worth reading are Hercules and Daredevil.

[McDuffies]

I appreciate what they tried to do with Vertigo, but I still don't like most of it's titles.
Anyways, I was actually interested in how superhero titles stand. I actually always knew Marvel for their golden age comics, but I first got to know DC through Vertigo, Miller and Sandman, and only later learned that they've been publishing Superman and Batman all this time. But it seems that, though most of fans will favour one of the two, in the average they stand about the same, and that Vertigo line isn't a guarantee that DC's superhero comics would be above Marvels.

[Phact0rri]

Well DC's super heroes in terms of favourite characters out weight the Marvel ones in my own point of view. Of course I've never been a fan of most "top tier" characters. But DC also has given more spotlight to lesser known charcters and let them come into their own much better than marvel that has been known to pull the plug the moment sales start slipping.

[Joel Fagin]

I was hoping arguement would go towards considering which ones are less of what you said... I had an impression that DC were the ones who were overdoing it in angst, gigantic crossovers and pointless alternate universes, while Marvel were more copicats keen to soap-operish melodrama... but it's probably because I've read more of DC by chance.

Nah, as I said, I pick out the small self-contained stories I think are good. Although, I believe there have been more Batman ones than anything else.

Sure, but... Marvel had Groo...

Everyone published Groo.

- Joel Fagin

[Killbert-Robby]

Marvel, hands down.

[McDuffies]

Everyone published Groo.

Except DC.

[Pimpette]

batmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

[Tarts]

Strong together, united forever
They're the best of friends!

But when troubles about, you'd best watch out
For the Watchmen!

And also, BATMAN.

[Risky]

I like both, and I like a lot of Marvel's recent movies and am excited about the Avengers movies, but when it comes to comics, I definitely prefer DC. There's no special issue of Marvel I'd ever want to pick up. Professor X dies? Again? Colossus comes back to life? Again? The stories are just too convoluted and repetitive.

But I picked up Superman's wedding issue, a compilation of the death and return of superman, knightfall, and infinite crisis. The last is the least special of the bunch (madman destroys multiverse? Sounds familiar), but it's still above most of the Marvel stuff.

[Lostmind]

This might earn me some mocking but DC because of their Wildstorm line.