Elias_AcornCat/boyThe True Heir to the Acorn Monarchy 6mo ago#6963197
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NGL im not a marvel guy. Def more of a DC guy. Everything in DC is bigger, weirder, more esoteric, and the characters are more timeless. My fav DC is post crisis with Superman Triangle era, Batman knightfall era, the funny justice league, grant morrison doom patrol, early vertigo, the good suicide squad, and other off beat long running books like Starman. Marvel is too feddy for me too many fed heroes and YA/shonen type shit like Spider-man and stuff like the X-men which is just endless slop. Some Marvel heroes are good tho like Daredevil (best marvel hero), Hulk, Punisher, and doctor strange . RN im read sonic comics which are pretty gemmy lots of funny crazy stuff with sonic and his pals. Indie comics are cool because they are more individualistic I like when ppl dont have creative oversight and can do whatever they want cause its funny.
All of this is quite plausible, I <3 feds and slop tho, my "serious" comics preference is giga-soft-scifi which I think Marvel is better at anyway (like Dr Strange and FF stuff), plus the Daredevil nexus is pretty good (punisher / taskmaster / moonknight / hawkeye when he's good). Normal/less esoteric is a fair criticism, but I read real books for that.
I feel very little desire to branch out into indie stuff, but I will probably investigate DC more diligently at some point. I have read some smattering of silver age and N52 DC stuff which I didn't mind but there's less a sense of universe-wide momentum which I go loco for.
I get what you mean about spidey being quite YA (I loved early ASM but would never reread it), but that is largely fixed in the 2000s with both Ultimate Spidey and ASM having the Brand New Day stuff. I think that's reverted now tho. FF is kiddy and formulaic but that's saved by heartwarming family stories, I agree XMen is incredibly played out, except for maybe House of M but that's been reused too many times now too.
Elias_AcornCat/boyThe True Heir to the Acorn Monarchy zip 6mo ago#6963316
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If you want event focused id rec the post crisis DC. Each of the book families was pretty tightly plotted around escalating events (see 90s batman which went from Batman gets his back broken, to gotham gets hit with a plague, to gotham gets hit with an earth quake, to gotham's political situation gets so bad the feds blow up all entrances and exits and turn it into a no mans land). Superman Triangle era was even more tightly plotted with each book being directly connected meaning you basically had 4 interconnected superman books a month plus spin offs like superboy ect. The legion of superheroes and the Green Lanterns are DCs main space books with Legion taking place in the future. In my reading Marvel has a way more developed space/cosmic/alien universe while in DC the magic/mythological/esoteric side is more developed.
If you like political stuff also look into Wildstorm comics. Its pretty much the premier edgy political self contained comic universe. It was originally part of the image shared universe was bought by DC and spun into its own self contained thing, and then merged with the main DCU in Flashpoint (still not too fond of this imo since many Wildstorm characters are expys of darker DC characters so having them run around the DCU seems redundant to me)
I read Marvel 
slop and ONLY Marvel 
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Gal Gadot is a genocidal b-word
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Oh you think
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I don't? I read picture books
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NGL im not a marvel guy. Def more of a DC guy. Everything in DC is bigger, weirder, more esoteric, and the characters are more timeless. My fav DC is post crisis with Superman Triangle era, Batman knightfall era, the funny justice league, grant morrison doom patrol, early vertigo, the good suicide squad, and other off beat long running books like Starman. Marvel is too feddy for me too many fed heroes and YA/shonen type shit like Spider-man and stuff like the X-men which is just endless slop. Some Marvel heroes are good tho like Daredevil (best marvel hero), Hulk, Punisher, and doctor strange . RN im read sonic comics which are pretty gemmy lots of funny crazy stuff with sonic and his pals. Indie comics are cool because they are more individualistic I like when ppl dont have creative oversight and can do whatever they want cause its funny.
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All of this is quite plausible, I <3 feds and slop tho, my "serious" comics
preference is giga-soft-scifi which I think 
Marvel 
is better 
at anyway (like Dr Strange 
and FF stuff), plus the Daredevil nexus is pretty 
good (punisher / taskmaster / moonknight / hawkeye when he's good). Normal/less esoteric 
is a fair criticism, but I read real books 
for that.
I feel very little
desire to branch out into indie stuff, but I will probably investigate 
DC more diligently at some point. I have read some smattering of silver 
age and N52 DC stuff which I didn't mind but there's less a sense of universe-wide momentum which I go loco for.
I get what you mean about spidey being quite YA (I loved early ASM but would
never 
reread it), but that is largely fixed 
in the 2000s 
with both Ultimate Spidey and ASM having the Brand New Day stuff. I think 
that's reverted now tho. FF is kiddy and formulaic but that's saved by heartwarming family 
stories, I agree 
XMen is incredibly played out, except for maybe House 
of M but that's been reused too many times now too.
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If you want event focused id rec the post crisis DC. Each of the book families was pretty tightly plotted around escalating events (see 90s batman which went from Batman gets his back broken, to gotham gets hit with a plague, to gotham gets hit with an earth quake, to gotham's political situation gets so bad the feds blow up all entrances and exits and turn it into a no mans land). Superman Triangle era was even more tightly plotted with each book being directly connected meaning you basically had 4 interconnected superman books a month plus spin offs like superboy ect. The legion of superheroes and the Green Lanterns are DCs main space books with Legion taking place in the future. In my reading Marvel has a way more developed space/cosmic/alien universe while in DC the magic/mythological/esoteric side is more developed.
If you like political stuff also look into Wildstorm comics. Its pretty much the premier edgy political self contained comic universe. It was originally part of the image shared universe was bought by DC and spun into its own self contained thing, and then merged with the main DCU in Flashpoint (still not too fond of this imo since many Wildstorm characters are expys of darker DC characters so having them run around the DCU seems redundant to me)
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