I've been the opposite, admittedly getting sucked into Civil War, Secret
Invasion, The Reigning (Thor's alternate future takeover of the Earth), Dark
Reign (the post Secret Invasion sitch with Norman Osborn in charge of what used
to be SHIELD). Even (gasp!) Brand New Day, the execrable retcon of Spider-Man
history where Mephisto erased Peter and Mary Jane's marriage from reality. I
have liked some of the ways the Marvel characters are being used, especially
bringing Luke Cage and Black Panther front and center, taking the bold move of
marrying Orroro and T'Challa, making the return of Bucky as the Winter Soldier
actually work (and later, the new Cap), etc. Some of their moves I've hated:
killing Captain America, the new direction of the X-Men, everything Spider-Man.
But it's kept me interested. I even like Spider-Girl!
By the same token, however, I've enjoyed DC's work, especially with Batman, the
Batman/Superman book, and Trinity. I do not care for the return of Golden Age
Superman things, like all the Kryptonians, all the Krytonite rock lying around,
etc. Or maybe I've been too focused on Marvel to really get into it. My feeling
has always been that DC sometimes has deeper storylines but for fewer
charactes, while Marvel may have a broader range of stories that may not be as
deep, but suck people into more books.
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From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@lycos.com>
> Grant Morrison seems to think so.
>
> They haven't posted the article from Wizard that I read this afternoon on the
> web site, so it falls to me to quote it. When asked about his work on "Final
> Crisis" (the ending in particular, and what he hopes fans will take away from
> the conclusion of the story), he says, "I hope they''ll take away a sense of
> how
> much they love the DC universe. Because there are the two camps... and Marvel
> is
> a colossus right now. To me, the DC Universe dying is almost how it felt to
> be
> at DC. There was just a sense that Marvel was just getting bigger and bigger
> and
> bigger."
>
> I don't agree with that at all.
>
> IMO, Marvel has al but sold out its readers, with cheap and gimmicky
> plotlines
> that aren't likely to last more than two years before being retconned right
> out
> of existence, leaving nothing short of a continuity mess. DC, on the other
> hand,
> is bringing about "Final Crisis", almost to the letter as it was destined to
> happen thirty-odd years ago.
>
> I put my brain to the task of remembering exactly what books I'd picked up in
> the last six months, and they've been 95% DC, only Fantastic Four as a Marvel
> representative. But that's just me.
>
> Thrash on this.
>
>
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
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Grant Morrison seems to think so.
They haven't posted the article from Wizard that I read this afternoon on the web site, so it falls to me to quote it. When asked about his work on "Final Crisis" (the ending in particular, and what he hopes fans will take away from the conclusion of the story), he says, "I hope they''ll take away a sense of how much they love the DC universe. Because there are the two camps... and Marvel is a colossus right now. To me, the DC Universe dying is almost how it felt to be at DC. There was just a sense that Marvel was just getting bigger and bigger and bigger."
I don't agree with that at all.
IMO, Marvel has al but sold out its readers, with cheap and gimmicky plotlines that aren't likely to last more than two years before being retconned right out !
of existence, leaving nothing short of a continuity mess. DC, on the other hand, is bringing about "Final Crisis", almost to the letter as it was destined to happen thirty-odd years ago.
I put my brain to the task of remembering exactly what books I'd picked up in the last six months, and they've been 95% DC, only Fantastic Four as a Marvel representative. But that's just me.
Thrash on this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
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