Postby righteous_slave » Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:21 am
One old Marvel boy here. I was mostly into the X-men and Wolverine back in the late 80's-early 90's. The age of enourmous, mutant themed crossovers (Mutant Massacre, Inferno). I got turned off to DC by the whole rewriting history of Crisis on Infinite Earths and by the cheesy 50-60's era Batman/Superman comics of my dad's. There have been quite a few quality titles and stories that I seemed to have missed out on by skipping them though.
Right now US comics just seem to be too expensive and "mature" and wrapped up in trying to fix things that weren't really broken. I know the whole "Ultimates" thing is set in another, parallel universe, but it was stuff like that which led to DC starting the world over at least twice that I can think of, and then eventually deciding they messed up and returned to the way things were to begin with. There is just too much focus on creating marketable stuff instead of good stories and characters. Of course all that is an outsider looking in anymore.
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