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As far as my evaulative media preferences go, I'd personally say DC > Marvel
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:04:57 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal I strongly disagree, and I have a reason for it too. DC obviously has strong characters like Batman and the Joker, and tbh before the MCU I would say that people who like just Batman outnumbered Marvel fans of any type. The problem is, DC has a couple strong leading men and absolutely no substance and background to the universe. Like, outside of the Batman and Superman universes, who cares about other DC characters? Like, /maybe/ Green Lantern? mangoing Aquaman?
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:08:21 UTC from web-
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:09:07 UTC from web
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@rarity as opposed to this, the Marvel universe is FULL of heroes who are stars in their own light, and backstories upon backstories that are all interconnected
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@rarity That's why I had that prefacing statement, DC's stories and characters just generally align better with my media preferences. Sure, maybe DC's universe isn't quite as expansive, but I feel I enjoy the individual universes, characters, and narratives of DC a lot more by comparison. I'm actually not too big of a Superman fan, but I love Batman a lot (especially the Red Robin comics). Also, The Invisibles and Watchmen are both probably my favourite comics of all time, because I'm really partial to very narrative driven comics like those with really rich characters and themes.
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:17:39 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal I've never really counted things like the Watchmen though
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:20:22 UTC from web-
@rarity Eh, it's published by DC Comics so I count it. It's not exactly a poster child for the company, but it just totally blew my mind when I read it. I don't think I've read any Marvel comic (or any comic, mind you) that I felt had a narrative so thematically rich and and engrossing. Maybe it's because I'm not some comic expert or anything and my knowledge of comics is pretty front-loaded, but that's how I feel as far as my frame of reference goes.
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:24:30 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal I guess that DC has really strong more mature comics. Like a lot of the Batman and Joker one shots for sure. Marvel is a lot more... traditional comic book. That even comes out in the movies (Nolan batman versus MCU)
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:27:34 UTC from web-
@rarity Yeah, which isn't to discredit Marvel comics though! If your preferences favour more traditional or just generally more fun and adventurous kinds of stories, then it makes sense that you'd prefer Marvel. It's a popular opinion but I do think The Dark Knight is a really fantastic film. It's not even necessarily that it's dark and gritty or anything like that, it's just that the style of writing it uses fits my media preferences a lot more than that used by Marvel films and comics. With that being said though, I actually think the X-Men comics are pretty great (mixed opinions on the movies though), and I thought the Man of Steel film was pretty disappointing (but as I mentioned earlier I've never even been that much of a Superman fan).
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:35:53 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal I cherrying love the Nolan Batman movies, but I don't think that a few good films for one characters makes one better. Although obviously that's just an opinion
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:37:33 UTC from web-
@rarity Yeah, I guess with me sheer volume isn't really enough to impress me. It's sort of like if I were to listen to a band who put one or two brilliant albums, or a band who put out like 10 decent at best albums. I'll take the former any day, despite getting less music.
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:40:22 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal I wouldn't call it sheer volume, more like depth but maybe they're just the same thing from different perspectives. Same reason I like Gundam without even watching 95% of the content
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:42:08 UTC from web-
@rarity Yeah, I think it just comes down to conflicting media preferences. Which is good, though, because that's what makes something like media so great. Different people will identify with different characteristics of their media, because our relationship with our media is really complex. Whereas I might see mecha being novel as a plot device but not necessarily as a storytelling vehicle, you'd approach it from a different perspective. And that's good! Different perspectives expand our frame of reference of media.
Saturday, 25-Apr-15 15:50:20 UTC from web
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