Why DC is better than Marvel

[Mavericker]

DC knows how to tell stories and draw people in without being over-the-top or offensive. Being gritty or hard-edged doesn't necessarily make a good, compelling story.
Marvel resorts to copying DC a lot. They have Sentry, for example, a Superman knock-off.
There's a certain degree of realism in DC and I happen to like the way DC approaches stories.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

DC knows how to beat a dead horse, and nothing else.

Welcome back Yellow7.

[Rem Nightfall]

DC knows how to tell stories and draw people in without being over-the-top or offensive. Being gritty or hard-edged doesn't necessarily make a good, compelling story.
Marvel resorts to copying DC a lot. They have Sentry, for example, a Superman knock-off.
There's a certain degree of realism in DC and I happen to like the way DC approaches stories.

All comics have a sense of realism. Marvel took and made it less human to reflect human problems. DC took them in as human problems and made them more human. You have to remember Marvel and DC came out in different hard times of the world. And both reflect a better dark world. Marvel makes what the problems of our world more mutant and freakish to almost create a way to let people understand the issues we face as a society, but not deter people away from the problem. DC made it human to attract people.

I'll always love Marvel because you can pick and choose whom you like and I think they have a better storyline. But that is just my opinion.

[Heinekenrana]

Also, they had Marvel Zombies, which was pretty darned entertaining for me.

[Mavericker]

DC is all about straight-forward storytelling.

[Rem Nightfall]

DC is all about straight-forward storytelling.

And I love the more metaphorical of Marvel. It creates depth.

[Mavericker]

DC knows how to beat a dead horse, and nothing else.

Welcome back Yellow7.

I reported you for calling me that.

Anyway, Who is Supergirl? and Battle For the Cowl seem like fun reads.

I have yet to read Legion of Superboys.

[Rem Nightfall]

I reported you for calling me that.

He wasn't insulting you nor being rude. He called you by a nickname. And anyways he is a mod.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

I reported you for calling me that.

Anyway, Who is Supergirl? and Battle For the Cowl seem like fun reads.

I have yet to read Legion of Superboys.

Protip: Nobody cares if anyone calls you Yellow7, Yellow7. All the pointless reports do is annoy the Misc Mods, who are looking for excuses to infraction you and close your threads anyway.

[Mavericker]

He wasn't insulting you nor being rude. He called you by a nickname. And anyways he is a mod.

A nickname I find insulting.
I'm not going to go off on people-I am playing it cool.

Protip: Nobody cares if anyone calls you Yellow7, Yellow7. All the pointless reports do is annoy the Misc Mods, who are looking for excuses to infraction you and close your threads anyway.

My username is Mavericker.

Ace told me to report people.

[wolfgirl90]

DC knows how to tell stories and draw people in without being over-the-top or offensive. Being gritty or hard-edged doesn't necessarily make a good, compelling story.
Marvel resorts to copying DC a lot. They have Sentry, for example, a Superman knock-off.
There's a certain degree of realism in DC and I happen to like the way DC approaches stories.

Wow. Gone for a little while and still an idiot. Welcome back, you little fool.

Okay, speaking off knock-offs:

Superman is a knock-off Gladiator by Philip Wylie
Marvel's X-men is a knock-off of DC's Doom Patrol
The Green Lantern is a knock-off of Lensman by Edward E. Smith
I could go on and on.

Please, most of the classic comics are some kind of knock-off of something else, so there's no point in choosing between Marvel and DC based on this.

[Mavericker]

Wow. Gone for a little while and still an idiot. Welcome back, you little fool.

Okay, speaking off knock-offs:

Superman is a knock-off Gladiator by Philip Wylie
Marvel's X-men is a knock-off of DC's Doom Patrol
The Green Lantern is a knock-off of Lensman by Edward E. Smith
I could go on and on.

Superman came first.
Apollo and Supreme and Sentry are rip-offs of Superman.

[Rem Nightfall]

A nickname I find insulting.
I'm not going to go off on people-I am playing it cool.

I could see a nickname like Fool or Idiot as insulting. But calling you a name they know you by is ridiculous to even count as an insult.

[Heinekenrana]

Superman came first.
Apollo and Supreme and Sentry are rip-offs of Superman.

"Gladiator" was written in 1930. Superman was created in 1932.

[Mavericker]

I could see a nickname like Fool or Idiot as insulting. But calling you a name they know you by is ridiculous to even count as an insult.

I do not like nicknames.

Gladiator of the Imperial Guard came out in the '30s?

[Rem Nightfall]

I do not like nicknames.

Okay Mav.

And Heinek is correct Gladiator came first.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

Superman came first.

Gladiator is an American science fiction novel first published in 1930 and written by Philip Wylie. The story concerns a scientist who invents a serum to "improve" humankind by granting the proportionate strength of an ant and the leaping ability of the grasshopper, both metaphors used to explain Superman's powers in the first comic of his series. He injects his pregnant wife with the serum and his son Hugo Danner is born with superhuman strength, speed, and bulletproof skin. Hugo spends much of the novel hiding his powers, rarely getting a chance to openly use them. The novel is widely assumed an inspiration for the character Superman,[1] though no confirmation exists that Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were influenced by it.[2]

Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon.[1][2][3][4] Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective Comics, Inc. in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June 30, 1938) and subsequently appeared in various radio serials, television programs, films, newspaper strips, and video games.

Yeah, that.

[Mavericker]

Yeah, that.

I'm not talking about the novel.

Gladiator is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men #107 (October 1977) and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum.

I meant this Gladiator.

I just missed Justice League Unlimited.

[wolfgirl90]

I'm not talking about the novel.

Gladiator is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men #107 (October 1977) and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum.

I meant this Gladiator.

I just missed Justice League Unlimited.

Okay, but I was not talking about that Gladiator (as you could have inferred by the more than 40 year gap between the creation of the two comics).

I was talking about the novel by Philip Wylie. That came before Superman, so Superman is basically a knock-off of Gladiator, as he basically had the same powers.

[Mavericker]

Okay, but I was not talking about that Gladiator (as you could have inferred by the more than 40 year gap between the creation of the two comics).

I was talking about the novel by Philip Wylie. That came before Superman, so Superman is basically a knock-off of Gladiator, as he basically had the same powers.

But that isn't a comic character.

DC comics-based shows are better than the Marvel ones.

[Ryuuzaki HD]

ill always like DC better for one reason Batman.

[Mavericker]

ill always like DC better for one reason Batman.

Thank you. And I like Superman too.

[Saint Seiya]

does it hurt to type like that?

[Mavericker]

does it hurt to type like that?

It's a filter.

I think Green Arrow is interesting.

Marvel does a lot of crappy things. Mutants are played out.

[i_say_sabotage]

Wow. Everybody's Marvel... Somehow I feel left out.

I like DC (Vertigo mostly) cos I like being touched by characters I can somehow relate to... They're not cut-off-the-grind good people-heroes (or people suffering the indignity of protecting the very people who hate them:X-Men). I don't want to be a hero. I just want to be human.

Not saying I don't like Marvel. It's hard to choose, but I'd still pick DC cos it appeals to me more. I guess I'm not big on the whole superhero thing.

(I like DC/Vertigo mostly because of Sandman.)