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[Mockingbird]

DC all the way. I tried to get into Marvel and it just turned me off comics completely. Then later on I got into DC via the Cartoon shows and wow! I didn't know how awesome comics could be! This was during the prelude to Infinite Crisis. I no longer buy Comics but I still like DC. Marvel blows.

 

[ReiGun]

Tend to follow DC more closer due to more having more familiarity with the characters thanks to the DCAU, but I more or less enjoy both for what they have to offer. Both sides have good stuff and crap.

I don't care for either company, I just like individual heroes from both.

Yeah I think that's true for me as well.

 

[WascallyWabbit]

it's funny how all these posters tend to talk about how their childhood exposure turned them to one or the other, really interesting how we get brainwashed at such an early age.

my love of DC came from those batman/superman/justice league cartoons

 

[Tawney Bomb]

There will never be a clear cut winner.

But for me, DC has Batman, that for me nullifies anything Marvel has ever come up with.

 

[Dan]

it's funny how all these posters tend to talk about how their childhood exposure turned them to one or the other, really interesting how we get brainwashed at such an early age.

my love of DC came from those batman/superman/justice league cartoons

My current love of DC certainly originates with a childhood love of all the Batman shows and movies, but that's the only character of their I really liked back then. I read far more and a wider diversity of Marvel comics as a kid than I did DC, by a big margin. I liked the Marvel cartoons back then (Spider-Man and X-Men) and bought much more of their video games, too.

So my preference flipped between childhood and adulthood. I still have a particular love of the Spider-Man character, despite hating the films and having read none of the comics since the mid-90s, but that's the only big remnant. All the praise for Hickman's comics work intrigues me, but I'm reluctant to even give that stuff a try because I definitely don't need to be buying more comics than I already am.

 

[IrishNinja]

yeah, i too've been running with marvel since i was a kid. DC has bats, and green lantern for me - wish i could get into more but it hasnt happened yet.

however, if anyone here thinks captain america can't take batman in a fight, please see me outside.

 

[DominoKid]

Batman >>>> Marvel >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DC

i always thought DC was a little bit corny and underdeveloped.

 

[AMUSIX]

Yep. Also throw in that Marvel storylines have touches of the real world, ie..New York vs. Metropolis which helps add to the characters lives and an interaction with the reader.

Also because Marvel didnt insult a readers intelligence by putting a pair of glasses on a character to change to his "secret identity".

It's not the glasses...it's the part! Of course, Supe's clever hair styling trick is foiled by any mirror...or semi-reflective surface.

 

[zoukka]

They both should die off.

 

[Fusebox]

I'm a Marvel man other than a bit of vintage Supes which has great kitsch value. I'm not a huge fan of The Flash or the Green Lantern, especially their villians. I prefer Spidey, X-Men, Avengers and the Fantastic Four... and I love The Ultimates series, so sue me.

Although a lot of my reading now is Image and Dynamite.

 

[krypt0nian]

I love and have grown up with both universes But in the end, the one that has Superman and the Legion of Superheroes is the one that owns my heart.

Hell, I have a tattoo of Krypton exploding inked on me for life.

 

[ReiGun]

If there is one thing I think DC has over Marvel, it's villains. Heroes are about equal for me, but I'm just not a fan of Marvel's villains generally.

 

[bloodforge]

I pretty much exclusively read DC and prefer the heroes in it.

Marvel pretty much killed any interest I had with their books with civil war. Probably never go back to reading more than a few books.

 

[krypt0nian]

I pretty much exclusively read DC.

Marvel pretty much killed any interest I had with their books with civil war. Probably never go back to reading more than a few books.

I caved in and Amazing Spider-man is pretty epic right now. Slot/Ramos are killing it.

Lots of fun Marvel right now. Hell, Wednesday's first issue of Daredevil Reborn hit for the fences IMO.

 

[TheKaeptain]

I pretty much exclusively read DC and prefer the heroes in it.

Marvel pretty much killed any interest I had with their books with civil war. Probably never go back to reading more than a few books.

Same here. I haven't read a Marvel book since.

 

[Freshmaker]

If their is one thing I think DC has over Marvel, it's villains. Heroes are about equal for me, but I'm just not a fan of Marvel's villains generally.

Darkseid loves to come to earth and sit on various people's couches. Thanos never does that.

 

[DY_nasty]

DC has Batman, but the X-Men... well, they're pretty fuckin awesome.

 

[jiggle]

Marvel
Carlos Pacheco
Liquid!
Jim Lee
Joe Madureira
Marc Silvestri
Whilce Portacio
Chris Bachalo
Richard Bennett


most of my favorites started there
and in X-titles, which were mainly what i collected

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Dude X-Men, Spider-Man, Justice League, Superman, Thor, Captain America, Batman, Spider-Man 2099, X-Men 2099, Legion of Superheroes, TMNT (mainly the Archie spinoff *giggles*)...

Honestly, if there was a comic out there, I probably bought at least one issue of it. I've got really obscure early Dark Horse stuff, Image.

I liked the mainstream stuff more. A larger history (convoluted as it may be) to delve into.

I never got limiting myself to one set of histories because of some idiotic loyalty to a company. Probably why the only generation of consoles I did the "fanboy" thing in was the N64 days... and that lasted about as long as it took for me to see MGS, Silent Hill, and Medievil .

 

[WascallyWabbit]

I pretty much exclusively read DC and prefer the heroes in it.

Marvel pretty much killed any interest I had with their books with civil war. Probably never go back to reading more than a few books.

civil war was bad, but it's been so many years now that everything that happened in that basically has been undone, except for bill foster is still dead... for now

you should read avengers prime cuz that's all about captain america, tony stark and thor all reconnecting

 

[Jintor]

Marvel's universe depresses me. DC is a lot more (relatively) 'idealistic', while Marvel remains steadfastly cynical for the most part.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Marvel's universe depresses me. DC is a lot more (relatively) 'idealistic', while Marvel remains steadfastly cynical for the most part.

Yeah?

If you want to read about Gods you go to DC, if you want to read about some slightly deranged, or flawed characters... by mainstream standards at least, you go to Marvel.

Batman is an interesting character. Worlds greatest detective that's just like one credo away from being the people he catches. And his villains are so much more interesting of mental cases.

Marvel has X-Men, and for as much as I love my Supes, BatVillains, and Justice Leagues, X-Men will always be my go to comic book.

 

[Ulairi]

I make mine Marvel. I was always into Spider-Man and Batman as a kid because they have great villains. But, between Dare Devil, Spider-Man, X-Men, The Avengers, Thor, and Fantastic Four, there are so many great characters in Marvel. I only read Batman from DC so I like DCUO but I keep wishing it was a Marvel game.

 

[ReiGun]

Darkseid loves to come to earth and sit on various people's couches. Thanos never does that.

LIKE A BOSS!

 

[Mumei]

I haven't really been able to figure out where to start with Marvel comics. With DC, I already knew the names of various runs and one-shots like Superman: Secret Identity, All Star Superman, Red Son, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Kingdom Come, Hush, Arkham Asylum, Knightfall, The Long Halloween, The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Watchmen, and others, as well as Vertigo titles like Sandman, Lucifer, Y: The Last Man, Fables, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, etc.

With Marvel, I don't really see know what discrete storylines I should be getting. I've heard good things about, say, Ultimate Spider-Man or Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America, but it seems different from the recommendations I usually get for DC, in that I'm just being recommended the entirety of series rather than specific storylines within it. I think it's mostly that I don't have the preexisting knowledge of Marvel that I did of DC.

So DC, until I figure that out.

 

[Big Baybee]

Marvel overall, but DC has Batman.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

DC always, now and forever. although they better take J. Michael Strackjflgjfopsinsky off the Superman book.

 

[Boombloxer]

I've recently been spending time running through DC Universe Online, and I've been loving it. But for the life of me I'm not vested in the Universe as much as I would be if it were Marvel's universe. Why?

What do I prefer more about the Marvel Universe?


I was listening to a podcast tonight to hear what they thought of DC Universe Online and one of the guys on the podcast mentioned how the TEAMS in Marvel comics were so much better than the teams in DC.

Justice League...popular, yes.

But compare that to the Xmen, Fantastic Four, The Avengers...well, I guess you could say the Avengers resemble the Justice league, but the Fantastic Four and Xmen comics never felt like groups of individual heroes coming together for a common good.

The Xmen and the Fantastic Four always came across as disfunctional families to me. More grounded.

Maybe that's it. Daredevil, Wolverine and Spiderman have always been my favorite super heroes. Perhaps it's because they felt more grounded in reality than similar heroes in the DC Universe.

Batman...the one guy I WANT to like in the DC Universe, still seems kinda greater than though even as a regular man. Very hard, stoic, and all business.

Opinions?

Eh, you can enjoy both pretty easily. I liked Blackest Night as well as Second Coming/Messiah Complex.

I think that Marvel is easier to relate to in some ways--high school nerd, family of four, Feeling Rage, etc; but the idea of superheros as gods is equally compelling.

And the closest counterpart to the JLA is the Squadron Supreme. The Utopia Project was pretty ground-breaking for its time, and still enjoyable to read today.

 

[Littleberu]

Never read Marvel anymore. I only read DC because I only have so much money.

I started reading DC for Green Lantern, and now I do for Flash, Green Lantern and Batman.

I also like their events more than the Marvel ones.

I'm also pretty fucking pissed Marvel decided to bring back Steve Rogers for whatever reason (I don't know why, really). Thought Civil War was really well done.

 

[megashock5]

I was always more of a Marvel guy, but I LOVE me some Batman.

 

[Big Chungus]

Anyone remember Amalgam comics?

 

[The Elite]

That Amalgam stuff made me throw up a little in my mouth.

 

[Parallax]

Not choosing a side in all this, but its amazing how so many people say that civil war turned them off comics, when dc had just as much trash. Bloodlines, identity crisis, and countdown were pretty bad, yet no one complains about them killing comics for them. I mean civil war was bad, but at the same time we got the awesome that was annihilation so I don't quite understand the comic killer aspect

That Amalgam stuff made me throw up a little in my mouth.

what? amalgam was unbelievably awesome. its one of the few trends from the 90s that i want to see return

 

[Zabka]

More DC than Marvel, although there are a few Marvel titles that I follow. My biggest problem with both is the crossovers, especially Marvel's, because it's just too damn difficult/expensive to follow. I can't keep all the X-Men and Avengers books straight anymore so I gave up.

Outside of the big 2, I also read Invincible, Walking Dead, the Boys, Irredeemable and Incorruptible.

Best advice, like others have said, is follow writers and artists.

 

[BBQMan]

DarkClaw and Iron Lantern would be sooo awesome

 

[IrishNinja]

ugh, alamgam...

also, ^^ this. was Civil War really that bad? the ending kinda bit but the event itself was fun, and amazing spider-man before/right after was a great read as well. if you were already worn-out from events like Avengers Disassembled (..) and House of Meh (had its moments, but...), i could see it, but if not, no idea why CW would drive someone away.

One More Day, however....

 

[shoplifter]

For me, it's all about




TMK era Legion is one of the greatest books ever written.

 

[Dice]

DC all the way. Why? They're classy. That's the only real way I know how to put it.

 

[jmdajr]

I grew up reading only marvel comics (and for awhile was on the image bandwagon).
Why? I just liked the look ya know...

I really don't read comics anymore, but I have started back by picking up some DC graphic novels. Namely... the god damn batman!

 

[Rlan]

I do enjoy both universes a lot.

However I enjoy Marvel way more as a comic book, and DC way more as Television. Just trying to understand the DC universe via Wikipedia is utterly insane -- the multiverses, the alternate origins constantly rewritten, the reuse of names across multiple characters like Robin and the Flash...

Heck, trying to understand Superboy is a concept is mind melting. "Oh Superboy Prime's been sitting in a pocket dimension during the Crisis Event, and previously existed in a world where he was a comic book character, and not real, but somehow that makes sense. Also he went crazy and tried to kill everybody!" Fucking what?

The TV universes tend to distill exactly what I want in DC universe -- even if they're drawn differently, Batman is always THE Batman, Superman is always THE Superman, even in zany spinoffs (Brave and the Bold). Though they still confuse the shit out of me sometimes (Young Justice has a black Aqualad for some reason or another)

 

[Xater]

I grew up with Marvel and would say that I actually was a total Marvel guy for a long long time. The only DC stuff I consumed was the Bruce Timm stuff and Batman comics. So except for Batman I never really gave DC a chance. Then I read Identity Crisis and somehow it opened up DC for me. I somehow really learned to enjoy these families of superheroes. Marvel for me started to fall off with House of M which was a terrible event and it did not get much better from there. And let's not even tak about what Marvel did with Spidey. The only cool stuff I think marvel did lately was bringing back all the cosmic stuff, but that seems to be over already. When I look at the comics on Marvel.com all is see is Avengers, Avengers, Avengers.

However I enjoy Marvel way more as a comic book, and DC way more as Television. Just trying to understand the DC universe via Wikipedia is utterly insane -- the multiverses, the alternate origins constantly rewritten, the reuse of names across multiple characters like Robin and the Flash...

Once I got into it, that crazyness is actually something I really enjoy with DC.

 

[Parallax]

DC all the way. Why? They're classy. That's the only real way I know how to put it.

....really?

 

[Bleepey]

I will give Magneto credit that he is smart enough NOT to mess with Doom. Magneto is probably second to Doom for best Marvel villain in my book.

Man you'd have to be Deadpool to beat Mag fucking neto!

It would still exist. The only way it would implode is if you honestly said that the Image and Valiant universes were superior to either Marvel or DC.

RIP valiant. Man i remember when i stayed with a family friend and he had tonnes of valiant comics.

Turok dinosaur hunter, solar man of the atom, Harbinger, Hard CORPS, Bloodshot, Xo Manowar. Again

I haven't really been able to figure out where to start with Marvel comics. With DC, I already knew the names of various runs and one-shots like Superman: Secret Identity, All Star Superman, Red Son, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Kingdom Come, Hush, Arkham Asylum, Knightfall, The Long Halloween, The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Watchmen, and others, as well as Vertigo titles like Sandman, Lucifer, Y: The Last Man, Fables, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, etc.

With Marvel, I don't really see know what discrete storylines I should be getting. I've heard good things about, say, Ultimate Spider-Man or Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America, but it seems different from the recommendations I usually get for DC, in that I'm just being recommended the entirety of series rather than specific storylines within it. I think it's mostly that I don't have the preexisting knowledge of Marvel that I did of DC.

So DC, until I figure that out.

You forgot Miller, Bendis and Brubaker's run on Daredevil.

Marvel overall, but DC has Batman.

Marvel has Daredevil

Anyone remember Amalgam comics?

I own about two trades of these

Not choosing a side in all this, but its amazing how so many people say that civil war turned them off comics, when dc had just as much trash. Bloodlines, identity crisis, and countdown were pretty bad, yet no one complains about them killing comics for them. I mean civil war was bad, but at the same time we got the awesome that was annihilation so I don't quite understand the comic killer aspect



what? amalgam was unbelievably awesome. its one of the few trends from the 90s that i want to see return

Anyway as a kid i preferred Marvel overall. It felt likea more cohesive universe something i found lacking in DC, the superheroes weren't so super (superman puts me to sleep) , they had a lot more depth to them, were better designed and Marvel had Stan Lee. Stan Lee! i adored series like the Age of Apocalypse as a kid and some of theClone saga but i got into DC heavily when my library only stocked anything that was not Marvel for some reason. So i grew to like Dc by choice. My little brother is so spoilt. eh has like 300 TPBS under his bed in my room whilst i was lucky to have 20 single issues at any one time as a kid. Look how spilt this motherfucker is:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtVGZ41hgmYwdFc0Qlo3ZVp4azItcndGTkZOZEV0V2c&hl=en_GB

 

[ultron87]

I grew up on X-men and Spiderman. I started reading Avengers when the Busiek run started (hence my username).

I didn't really get into DC until I picked up a random collection of Morrison's run on JLA.

Now I enjoy them both, but probably read more DC since I like the grander scale of a lot of the stuff in there.

 

[Shin Johnpv]

Like it was said both are the same shit. Its just personal taste.

Though of the big 2 books I used to read the most, one writer really defined both for me. The best X-Men stories are from when Byrne worked on them. The best Superman stories are well a tie, either the Byrne era or the Jurgens era.

Basically regardless of if you like Marvel or DC I think we can all agree, John Byrne is the fucking man.

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

Invincible is better than both.

This.

After Invincible, then I would put DC as my next favorite universe, followed by Ultimate Marvel, and then normal Marvel.

 

[MC Safety]

Magneto shits on Doom.

I really liked Magneto when he was a bad guy. Then, Chris Claremont took a leisurely 50 or so issues of X-Men to turn him good, and I loved that. Then John Byrne and Louise Simonson turned him evil again in one issue, and it was absolute crap.

Now I don't know what the hell happened to the character. He's flip-flopped, been a drug addict, a clone (I think), and I couldn't care less about any of it.

One sea change I can accept. But this guy is a yo-yo.

I always liked Marvel because of its characters. But the Spider-Man deal with the devil thing absolutely ruined things for me.

 

[Parallax]

Anyway as a kid i preferred Marvel overall. It felt likea more cohesive universe something i found lacking in DC, the superheroes weren't so super (superman puts me to sleep) , they had a lot more depth to them, were better designed and Marvel had Stan Lee. Stan Lee! i adored series like the Age of Apocalypse as a kid and some of theClone saga but i got into DC heavily when my library only stocked anything that was not Marvel for some reason. So i grew to like Dc by choice. My little brother is so spoilt. eh has like 300 TPBS under his bed in my room whilst i was lucky to have 20 single issues at any one time as a kid. Look how spilt this motherfucker is:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtVGZ41hgmYwdFc0Qlo3ZVp4azItcndGTkZOZEV0V2c&hl=en_GB

i revel in your hate, but seriously, identity crisis was bad. i was gonna pass on infinity crisis initially because of it

 

[BattleMonkey]

Marvel has the better characters, but DC has superior stories/writing

 

[Sir Garbageman]

When it comes to super hero books I vote Marvel because Spider-Man is my favorite individual hero and the X-Men my favorite squad.

Invincible does rule hardcore though, so Image gets a nod.

Although a lot of my reading now is Image and Dynamite.

What's a good read on the Dynamite side of things? Haven't read much of anything they've put out.