Dark Reign: Dark Times for Marvel

Dark Reign: Dark Times for Marvel

Could DC be climbing on top again?

Editorial Opinion
By BuckyB7588 - Jan 02, 2009 12:01 AM EST
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Okay, I admit, I'm reasonably new to comics. I was always one of those geeks who was aware of comics, knew all about the characters and what was going on, just never read them. After I saw the new Iron Man flick, I felt compelled to finally jump in. Luckily, Secret Invasion was just starting, a new Iron Man comic arc was starting, and it was a great time to join the legions of Marvel fans. Why not DC? Because DC is lame. Superman, the boy scout, Batman has no real powers, Aquaman is just...lame; the Flash? Green Lantern? come on. DC is old and outdated. So I read Marvel.

Then, browsing through my local comic book store, I saw Batman R.I.P. Batman, dead? Okay, I'll read it, after all, it is Batman. No matter what your opinion of R.I.P. was it was incredibly interesting, and you wanted to see what happened. By this time, Secret Invasion was wearing thin. They were in the jungle, still fighting, guessing who each other really was. Boy, six issues of that didn't get old. But I was new to comics, and thought Marvel would get better.

As Batman got more and more intricate, I figured I'd read Nightwing, and I thought I'd give Superman a try. I had no real interest in him, in my mind he was always too powerful, too perfect, so what drama could there be? But then, Superman was getting beaten by Atlas, and his dog saved the day. It was strange, but oddly interesting. Months later, I'm beggining to become very tired of Marvel. Don't get me wrong, Dark Reign is going to be great, especially Iron Man and Thunderbolts, but Spider man is dragging, Daredevil should be renamed Matt Murdock, the New Avengers are up in arms about Luke Cage's baby, and the only remnant from Secret Invasion which won't be undone in a few months is the Wasp's death (big deal?). While this is happening, Metropolis is invaded by hundreds of Kryptonians, Batman has disappeared, and Final Crisis is far more compelling than Secret Invasion ever dreamed of.

Am I the only one seeing and experiencing this?

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MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/3/2009, 3:13 PM
i used to be exactly the same. i always liked batman but that was all. marvel had wolvie for gods sake!

but then i discovered superman, green lantern, dr fate and most importantly the dc vertigo comics...they will never be bettered
IonParallax
IonParallax - 1/4/2009, 4:01 PM
Dr Fate is freakin' amazing. I can't wait to see him and Dr Strange face off, it would just be TOO good.

As for the comics themselves, i've pretty much been a diehard Marvel fan, even though Green Lantern is above all the BEST character, IMO, in comicdom. They've lamed him up a few times, but all in all, he is badass. When I say he, I am refering to none other than Hal Jordan of course. The quintessential GL. Not that I don't have some love for the rest of the squad, for the most part, because they've got the most unique crew out there. I mean, there's even one GL who uses a freakin' BELL because he is from a part of space with no light, which means no eyes, so a ring that projects images was impossible for him to understand. SO, the person who found him (pretty sure it was Arisia) turned his ring into a Bell and told him he was now a part of the F-Sharp Corps. So he understood. Oh yea, his name is Rot Lop Fan, if you wanted to know. I'm such a GL dork. They have their own Cryptkeeper (Morro), Chef (Greet), a freakin' Smallpox Virus (Leezle Pon), a sentient PLANET (Mogo), a set of sentient GL rings (The Collective) AND an extremely complex, sentient, mathematical equation (Drkzy Rrr). I mean, not even the Justice League Unlimited can say they have a more diverse cross-section of characters.
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