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My family was always a bit mystified with my preoccupation with comic books when I was younger. I always gravitated toward the Marvel characters back then. It's

My family was always a bit mystified with my preoccupation with comic books when I was younger. I always gravitated toward the Marvel characters back then. It's incredibly gratifying to see how popular the movies, based on my childhood heroes (Iron Man, the Avengers), have become. Of course the X Men and Spiderman franchises have done well, it's good to see the other parts do well. I do not have much hope for the Fantastic Four reboot, however.

Vaskivo 12y ago
I also love comic books, specially super-heroes. It's usually cheesy and derivative but, on those well written stories, so touching, so inspiring! I also started with Marvel. It's characters are grittier, more humane, and all their "real life" troubles make them extremely relatable (spiderman is the best example). As an adult, I started to gravitate towards DC. Their characters are larger than life, almost perfect gods. They are not people, they are walking symbols. Only as an adult did I get Superman.
- mercurial 12y ago
  I used to read Teen Titans as a teenager, but as an adult, I appreciated Secret Six with its less-than-perfect characters. And of course, the DC Vertigo line published a number of gems like Sandman. Apart from that, I've always liked Marvel better (especially the weird experimentations of Marvel UK like Death's Head I). They always felt more "real" to me (especially X-Men, which was somewhat political).
- talmand 12y ago
  I've always preferred Marvel because of DC's deal of making their characters too perfect. Once they started creating silly weaknesses to Superman so that they can have some sort of conflict to tell the story it went downhill. Without conflict you can't have drama. I've only really liked Batman because they aspired to make him an example of the perfect human being in every way. Except he's still human and the best Batman stories reflect that.
  - hajile 12y ago
    Watchmen seems to be a warning that your typical moviegoer can only handle so much imperfection in the characters.

Vaskivo 12y ago

I also love comic books, specially super-heroes. It's usually cheesy and derivative but, on those well written stories, so touching, so inspiring! I also started with Marvel. It's characters are grittier, more humane, and all their "real life" troubles make them extremely relatable (spiderman is the best example). As an adult, I started to gravitate towards DC. Their characters are larger than life, almost perfect gods. They are not people, they are walking symbols. Only as an adult did I get Superman.

mercurial 12y ago
I used to read Teen Titans as a teenager, but as an adult, I appreciated Secret Six with its less-than-perfect characters. And of course, the DC Vertigo line published a number of gems like Sandman. Apart from that, I've always liked Marvel better (especially the weird experimentations of Marvel UK like Death's Head I). They always felt more "real" to me (especially X-Men, which was somewhat political).
talmand 12y ago
I've always preferred Marvel because of DC's deal of making their characters too perfect. Once they started creating silly weaknesses to Superman so that they can have some sort of conflict to tell the story it went downhill. Without conflict you can't have drama. I've only really liked Batman because they aspired to make him an example of the perfect human being in every way. Except he's still human and the best Batman stories reflect that.
- hajile 12y ago
  Watchmen seems to be a warning that your typical moviegoer can only handle so much imperfection in the characters.