| d21lewis said: I love Marvel but I LOVE DC. DC gets critcized (not really but, I've seen it recently) for having characters that are too powerful. I don't get it. Silver Surfer can fly through the sun at the speed of light and not get hurt. Magneto can bend the entire earth at its axis and flood New York City. Sentry or the Hulk are strong enough to break the planet apart. And don't get me started on people like the Beyonder, Red Skull, or Thanos who've had the power to change the world just by thinking about it (in previous Marvel storylines). The fact is that BOTH universes have characters that are over-powered. It's up to the writers to make the characters likeable, put them in challenging situations, and just tell good stories. I think that DC tends to do a better job of this with their characters. Plus, DC has the icons! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, the Flash--these are the characters that people who don't even read comic books think of when the think of a comic book character. And the best storylines of all time tend to feature the DCU. I just wish they'd stop with their recent trend of storylines so epic that nobody can read them (Final Crisis, Blackest Night, Infinite Crisis) and scale things back just a little bit. Nobody has $100,000 to spend on a storyline!! |
Marvels characters are closer to reality than DCs, Spider-man is currently jobless and living off of unemployment, MoonKnight is battling his multiple personality disorder and Ironman is rebuilding his company from nothing. Captain marvel died of cancer...yes cancer. Spider-man relates to everyday people more than most heroes, hence being jobless.
