Marvel. The company has been at the forefront of amazing story-telling for over 40 years now. Spider-Man is a true testament to their work, bridging amazing storytelling and character driven pieces with intense action and great cliffhangers.
Then there's Captain America, a great and classic standing hero, a hero which all of Marvel aspires to. Marvel just has a great grip of their characters, they know how to work them, and the writers and artists they have on board are all spectacular. Yeah, Marvel has its misses. The Aunt May lookalike, the Clone Saga, Wolverine: Origins, and a few others. But it has so many more wins then it does loses.
DC, on the other hand, has rarely ever had a sense of character with their books beyond being put in tights. The villains have never been as deep, and the heroes are often one-dimensional. Batman is the only good thing to come from DC comics. And that's had more misses than it has wins. DC has no idea of how to handle their characters and often has them all over the place without any real sense of continuity or depth.
By the way, it doesn't take a fanboy to know who created Batman, that would be Bob Kane and Bill Finger, but Kane usually gets all the credit. And Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and the thing is, I HATE Superman. So, it doesn't take a fanboy to know those types of things. These are legends in comics, considering Batman and Superman were created some 30-odd years before Spider-Man ever hit the stands.
That doesn't give DC any weight over this debate, but it is something that should be pointed out.
Then there's Captain America, a great and classic standing hero, a hero which all of Marvel aspires to. Marvel just has a great grip of their characters, they know how to work them, and the writers and artists they have on board are all spectacular. Yeah, Marvel has its misses. The Aunt May lookalike, the Clone Saga, Wolverine: Origins, and a few others. But it has so many more wins then it does loses.
DC, on the other hand, has rarely ever had a sense of character with their books beyond being put in tights. The villains have never been as deep, and the heroes are often one-dimensional. Batman is the only good thing to come from DC comics. And that's had more misses than it has wins. DC has no idea of how to handle their characters and often has them all over the place without any real sense of continuity or depth.
By the way, it doesn't take a fanboy to know who created Batman, that would be Bob Kane and Bill Finger, but Kane usually gets all the credit. And Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and the thing is, I HATE Superman. So, it doesn't take a fanboy to know those types of things. These are legends in comics, considering Batman and Superman were created some 30-odd years before Spider-Man ever hit the stands.
That doesn't give DC any weight over this debate, but it is something that should be pointed out.
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