Marvel vs DC Comics

I'm sure this must have been asked before, but I cannot find anything on here.

The ultimate question:
Do you prefer Marvel or DC comics?

I must say, personally I prefer DC. I like my comics to be hardcore and violent, and Marvel lacks that alot of the time. That's the main hook for me.
So what about you guys?

Both

But the candy cotton corniness in DC is hard to bear sometimes and the constant repeat storylines of Marvel are hard to stomach in large doses as well.

reply to post by SR

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Lol yeh I hear you. I was reading some batman earlier and the guy he was fighting (Mr Whisper) had him caught and tied up, but instead of just killing him straight, set up an elaborate chain reaction that started with a burning candle and ended up with a heavy barrel falling on batmans head.
I found that pretty hilarious lol

reply to post by PeaceUk

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That sounds like the old Batman TV series.
I prefer DC Comics, but I do read the occasional Marvel (Iron Man and Silver Surfer when I was younger). Favorite DC characters: All of them!

They're both good really.
It is a hard choice.

I'm more of a Marvel guy being that it seems more, how can I put this, mature? Though, I will say that DC has had better luck with their characters getting TV shows. Marvel had like X-Men, but you don't see it much anymore. DC has Smallville and that has everyone going crazy, I personally can't stand Superman. He's just too powerful really. Who can actually beat him? Darth Vader, that's who.

Avengers>Justice League

reply to post by Echo3Foxtrot

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After Crisis in the 1980s, Superman was de-powered a bit. He could not move planets anymore. Marvel paved the way for realistic comics in the 1960s, and DC finally started in the 1970s. DC made a lot of its heroes dark in the late 80s and early 90s, but started a trend of lightening some of them up. The biggest mistake DC did was to start killing off their silver age heroes, Green Arrow, Hal Jordan, and Barry Allen to name a few. They have been bringing them back and have written really good stories to get them back.

Marvel has the most balanced of the universes, there are some who have who have Omega level powers, but they have major flaws with their charater, both good and bad. Plus every arch ties in with the next one. For example, they have set up the current secret invation back in Nick Fury's Secret Wars and followed up weakoning the univeres with house of M and decimation, Civil War and Planet Hulk. Now you see what fury has been doing for the last four years. Plus you see that marvel is not scared to knock off one of there most loved and trusted, Captain America. Who did DC kill John Jones the manhunter. They killed a hero in final crisis but he is still in JSA and other comics.

This brings me to my second point. There are way too many universes running at one time. There are the 52 Earths in the DC universes. Well it is like they are writing in about 4-6 major comics in these more that 3 different universes. It gets hard to keep up. Marvel has thousand of universes but only they revolve everything mainly around Earth 616. They do have tangents and one shots but they are mainly kept to What if's, and specials. The only one that really doesn't stay rooted too much in 616 is Exiles. Still The took the Star Wars route and put everything in to a database and try to make everything fit so that you are drawn in to the universe and there is continuity to it.

One of my problems with DC is they keep changing everything. I haven't read one of their books in a while, but I do go to the boards at DC to find out what is happening. In the 1980s, they got rid of all the different universes for one Earth in Crisis of Infinite Earths storyline. After 52, they now decide to bring back 52 Universes. Maybe I'll just stick to a couple of heroes, and ignore all the big events.

I personally always like marvel better.

Their superheros seemed to have more creative super powers compared to dc.

Like Spiderman compared to Superman.

I think its a lot more creative and orginal to make a person be like a spider instead of just giving them like every generic superpower(super streangth, speed, ect, ect) ever like dc did to superman.

Well thats what I've always thought.

I agree with you, Marvel probably is better.
I just think that their comics are a lot more fun to read than DC's are.

I never liked the Marvel storylines or boldfaced words that made no sense in terms of diction or content: Then she WAS in trouble. (WTF!!!)

Loved DC from 1988 to 1992, before everyone got their noses up Neil Gaiman's rear-end and the DC magic-verse became a pale shadow of the Beeteljuice movie (<- spelling?). Even the D&D comics were good during that time, when TSR was turned-over to, and ruined by, Dave Cook.

IMHO, DC's Mighty 10 for that brief span were

D&D
AD&D
Legends of the Dark Knight
Lobo
Dr. Fate
The Spectre
The Demon
Martian Manhunter
Silver Blade
Swamp Thing (Alan Moore pwnd Neil Gaiman)


[edit on 9-9-2008 by tocs100]

Generally, I much prefer Marvel and really struggle getting into DC's main books. That said, I really like the Vertigo imprint and some of that has my favourite books: Fables, Hellblazer, Sandman, Preacher, Y: The Last Man so perhaps it's to do with the regular DC universe more than anything else.

Perhaps that is the case as I'm a big fan of the bigger DC icons in non-continuity things like 'Elseworld'-type scenarios or some of the retro-fitted JSA stories.