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Originally Posted by noisereductions
Haha yes he has been aped plenty. I still Marvel tho. Growing up Batman was the only DC I really messed with.
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Well, I was always the DC kid. Everyone always loved Batman (especially our generation, thanks for the Tim Burton movies), but only one of my childhood nerd brothers actually read the Batman/Detective comics. Everyone else was crazy for Spider-Man and X-Men. Spider-Man and X-Men.
Even Avengers was not a popular thing among my friends. I read that shit, but not often. It was all about fucking Spider-Man and fucking X-Men.
I have a love hate thing going with Marvel. I think they do team scenarios very well, and I loved X-Force and X-Factor growing up, and I love Cap and Daredevil, but they lack the absolute elemental iconography of the the Trinity. Even Spider-Man, their biggest character, looks a hell of a lot like a number of other characters in their universe.... Like Deadpool, not that that's Spodey's fault, having come 30 years earlier and all. And Wolverine, the other big Marvel brand, cuts the same fucking figure as latter-day Beast, not to mention Psylocke and Scarlet Witch to some extent.
There's nobody on Marvel's roster that's as singular or symbolic as Bats or Supes. I've always gone for the more character-driven comics, and that's where DC shines.
That friend — the other DC reader — was into the lamer shit actually. His all time favorite character is Hal Jordan's Green Lantern (don't get me wrong, when done properly, GL is a kickass character of *almost* Superman like magnitude, but he's almost never done properly). He wasn't into Knightfall or Death of Superman, which are, for better or worse, two of the most influential stories of my life, in or out of the comic book genre.
... I really like Superman and Batman... is basically what I'm saying.