DC vs MARVEL
 

Let the Battle Begin

I dont know where to start with these two
I've always been partial to Superman and Batman... but X-Men and Spiderman are more than awesome in their own way.
but If you have to decide, which one?

I'm for Both

Oh, I thought this was gonna be about the 1997 fan-vote crossover series, which spawned the Amalgam Universe.

I'd love to see some of those battles re-staged.

Some potential good spats we got cheated out of the first time around:
Thor Vs. Wonder Woman
Green Lantern Vs. Iron Man
Flash Vs. Spider-Man
Wolverine Vs. Martian Manhunter

If I have to be honest, neither company is as good as they used to be in regards to comics. One dumb creative decision after another in the name of profit has robbed them both of originality, consistency in characters, and alienated readers with continuity hiccups and the hot/cold mentality to runs, that and they are real d*cks to their writers when they don't corrispond with what the higher-ups want.

In regards to television output, DC have always been better and have a larger, more consistently enduring body of work and that'll continue while Marvel pump out their current crop of garbage. Marvel have it all the way with movies at the moment, though I don't think many of their films will hold up over time

The '90's comics were the coolest. The new started off awesome -- they suck now.:ohwell:

I used to be strictly for Marvel, as the old comics I inherited were X-Men and Spiderman comics. Hell, my only interaction with DC was a few Green Lantern and Superman comics and the Teen Titans cartoon. Now of course I'm watching Superman TAS and Batman Tas but I just have more exposure to Marvel I suppose. I like both and I read some DC comics occasionally but I just had to pick Marvel.

The answer is simple

IDW :P

Gotta be Marvel for me. Superman and Batman just don't do it for me :P

Always been DC. I've liked a few "runs" of Marvel books over the years - I was sort of heavy into Spider-Man from the late 1980s up until right before the Clone Saga started - but never was able to get into them consistently. To me, it was always like this: Marvel books have great art and mediocre stories, while DC books have had better stories but mediocre art. Now obviously that's a general statement, because there have been great Marvel stories with great art to match, great DC stories with equally great artwork, and plenty of crap all around from both sides. But that's generally how they each came across to me: DC was for readers who cared more about the stories, Marvel was more for those who enjoyed the visuals.

I can't speak for either right now, thought; I haven't picked up a Marvel book in years, and nothing I've read of the New 52 justifies its existence. DC HAD a much more rich mythology than Marvel, but that no longer counts for much. But DC still has Superman and Batman, and you can't honestly present any other character from any other company as "equal" or "greater" than them unless you're completely delusional. Spider-Man could be as iconic, possibly, except that he's a chronic f*ck-up who almost entirely sucks at his own life and pretty much killed his own girlfriend, just to emphasize how bad he is at damn near everything. And he's pretty much the best Marvel's got, except Wolverine, and that's an entirely different type of character altogether.

Marvel are of two minds with Spidey: Really, if you can get past the Gwen Stacy incident, he got it together with his best friend MJ, married her, got to publish a book of his photos, appeared on Johnny Carson, and had a baby who grew up to be a hero herself....of course the other mindset, the one reflected more in the regular books, is he lost the baby at childbirth, his marraige breifly fell apart, and just when he was rebuilding it, he trades it in to save an edlerly staple of the status quoe and a character whose relevancy had long since ended.

The twin mindset continues to this day in the daily strips and the regular books, both having different continuities. In the dailys, (which Spidey's co-creator Stan Lee has creative control over) Spidey is still happily married and pretty together in life, the mainstream version is...well...either dead or stuck in a perpetual state of loserdom.

I hate what Marvel does to the X-men. Didn't they make Cyclops into a madman and pretty much turn him into a one-dimensional nutjob?

Spiderman begs to differ.

The Clone Saga was never as bad as some bandwagon sheep say it is, compared to s*ite like Chapter One, One More Day and Superior Spider-Man, it's actually an underrated gem and probably the last time Marvel tried to make that character a grown-up

If you knew where to look, the 90s were very good to Spidey, Spidey 2099, the 90s cartoon, and the Spider-Girl books can attest to that. I'd much rather be a fan of him back then than I would ever want to be now.

DC. Always been that way for me. Been a Superman fan since I was small, so that universe comes with it I like some characters from Marvel, I've just never read any runs from them. I've tried, just no clue where to start.

Oh no you didn't! Mirage all the way!:tlol:

Unless DC have killed off Batman and have the Joker's brain driving around his body fooling everybody and trying to one up every thing the real Batman did, then at least they have one thing over Marvel.

Im going with DC, Marvel doesn't have many original/ Unique characters. Marvel got sued by DC over Captain Marvel. (Marvel copied Super-man and called hime Captain Marvel)
Ironman is basically Batman.
Deadpool is basically Deadshot and slade wilson.

DC is simply more original, and I am also bias bc of batman and batman beyond.

Hmmm, if I had to choose between the two, I'd have to go with DC.

I'd say both because they have their strong and weak characters/storylines/concepts. It happens. However, I feel that DC is stronger in the television business than it is in the film industry. Man of Steel was disappointing, it made The Dark Knight Rises look like a masterpiece, and that was a disappointment, too. Honestly, shows like Batman: The Animated Series and Smallville and (for the fans) Young Justice are a lot of fun and bring some good magic to the DC universe.

Marvel, on the other hand, is the opposite. Their movies have been increasingly enjoyable starting with X-Men through the Avengers. But for the cartoons, maybe some of the shows were better in the past, but today's don't really hold that well. Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble, Hulk and Agents of S.M.A.S.H., etc. They are what cause a downfall in Marvel. Marvel is better at their movies (whether you like them or not), but the cartoons are very disappointing at this time.

For some reason, TMNT changes based on exposure. One year, it's a movie that's great. Then a few years later, it's a cartoon, 2-D or CGI, that makes people happy. It seems to depend on the creators and who is handling everything.

Team Image!!!...

What?...

Okay fine... I'm going to go with Marvel because I'm a Spider-Man fan.

:kgrin: hahahaha