Monday, June 2, 2014

Marvel or DC

The two power houses in comic books, Marvel and DC  which one would you side with. If your like me then you don't read many comics unless you see them and you have nothing else to do, but if you do read a lot of them what do you think. Personally I don't really go out of my way to read comics, but when I do I personally like reading the ones about Spider Man and Batman because at the end of the day those two in my opinion would kick any ones butt, but the problem is they are with different companies. So my favorite one above all else is Batman so I guess that means my favorite superhero brand would have to be DC. So I'm going to give a brief history on the two companies so IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT IT THEN SKIP THE NEXT BIG PARAGRAPHS.
  DC is a Warner Bros company entertainment and they are basically owned by Time Warner.   So based on what I've heard the majority of people believe that DC is the longest and so far most successful comic book franchise, but Marvel fans argue and stats that DC superheros are just overpowered. If you kinda think about it aren't most superheros overpowered, but Marvel fans do have a good point because who entire every single superhero is more overpowered then the one the only Superman. He is the golden boy who has put them on the top and made them millions along the way. Now besides that DC does have other characters that are very well known and some of them are not just heroes. There are plenty of characters like the Joker, Two Face, Doomsday, Apocalypse, Black Adam, and of course others as well but I do not have the time to talk about all of them. The other pretty notable heroes DC has is Batman, the Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Women, Aqua Man, Green Arrow and of course others. DC has also made some very successful cartoon series like Justice League and Justice League unlimited. There were others like Batman the animated series, Superman the animated series (of course), and Batman Beyond. Just like everything else there are plenty of other cartoon series that they made and basically defined a generation of little kids back in the day and even now. DC will always hold a very special place in comic lovers hearts and will continue to do so for hopefully years to come.


Now for the other comic company, Marvel. Marvel to me has a lot more heroes that I like personally, like Iron Man, Captain American, The Hulk, and of course Spider man (who in my opinion has way to much movies). Now Marvel may not be as successful as DC in the comic department, but they are better at bringing them to life on the big screen. Besides animated and in the recent years Marvel had a major bang on when it hit the big screen. With the success with the Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man series Marvel has been on top of the movie industry with the web crawler's growing fan base. Also with the Iron Man trilogy and the two Captain America movies they made enough to have a swimming pool ten feet deep with money. Marvel has also done something that is very difficult and that is bring the Avengers to life. A movie that is full of superhero's seems difficult, but with a villain like Loki it was easy. They successfully hinted the Avengers movie in the past Iron man, Hulk, and Captain America movies, something which made the fans excited to see it. They have also hinted the Avengers 2 in the end credits of the Avengers one while DC  has yet to really answer that with bringing to life the Justice League movie, but it may be hinted in the new Batman vs Superman movie coming out in the near future.

On top of all this Marvel also put on really successful X-Men movies. A movie that has Wolverine the most if not one of the most awesome  superheros (wanted to describe him in another word, but I'm not sure if I am allowed to do that so ya...) it is pretty easy to fill the box office, but put him side by side with the other members of the X-Men then your just being greedy.

Now Marvel may have put out these really awesome movies, but they had put out some not so good ones. A good example of this would be the Ghost Rider series. Me personally I like the movies, but based on a lot of reviews it seems like the movies were a big let down. Either way Marvel has successfully put out a movie that did pretty well in the box office whether you liked it or not because to review the movie you needed to buy the ticket to go see it right?

Now DC has had good movies out like the Batman movies that to me is the best that there going to get, like there is no way DC can top those movies they were that good. DC also released the Man of Steel movie which was pretty good, but to me doesn't compare to the Marvel movies. The Batman movies though are my favorite movies they have ever released. Come on you can't beat the bat, its impossible. Either way to me a superhero based company should be judged by the comics because that is where the hero's were born so DC is the better brand. Then again this is coming from someone who doesn't read comics that often.
Which do you think is better?
What is your favorite hero?

1 comment:

  1. I agree that DC has had good movies out as well. Batman is good, but my favorite of all time is Spider-man. Batman comes second to my favorites though.

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