Why prefer marvel over DC?

[chongjasmine]

Marvel fans, why do you prefer marvel over dc?

[KC]

The majority of my favourite comic runs come from Marvel.

[Personamanx]

A good comic is a good comic regardless of publisher. As is at the moment there are very few that appeal to me, none from DC presently.

[Rosebunse]

While Marvel certainly be confusing, I like the feeling of the continued storyline. DC seemingly to reset itself so often really made it hard for me to want to jump in when I first got into comics. I also like Marvel focus on team books. Their lack of a house style also means that you get some really different artists.

I guess there's just this feeling that DC only really has Batman. I like Batman as an idea, but I never really got into "detective" comics.

[Oberon]

This! The very often resetting of their universe makes it hard for older readers to stay interested.

Conversely, Batman is a character I can not relate to as well as Batwoman. Only DC comic that means something to me.

[Prof. Warren]

While Marvel certainly be confusing, I like the feeling of the continued storyline. DC seemingly to reset itself so often really made it hard for me to want to jump in when I first got into comics. I also like Marvel focus on team books. Their lack of a house style also means that you get some really different artists.

Yes, this is another big plus for Marvel over DC for me. By design, DC has a very same-ish look to their books while Marvel features a much greater variety of cool, different art.

[_Feely_]

Don't have a preference; a good story is a good story.

Saying that...

My favourite characters are mostly DC.
My favourite stories are mostly Marvel.
When DC do good, I feel they do better than Marvel.
Marvel have had better long-arc stories i.e Bendis Avengers era.

Currently reading way more DC than Marvel (which is 3 books against none), but reading other publishers far more than either of those.

[XPac]

When I was younger, I felt the marvel characters were a bit more down to earth and relatable than DC characters (though at this point I think both companies are relatively even in this regard).

But the constant crisis reboots really turned me off to DC.

[lilyinblue]

The honest truth is that the X-Men were what I was first exposed to as a kid, and thus I started reading Marvel. Nothing every really pulled me into reading DC like that.

I don't think it's very reflective of the content they're producing, and just more the dumb luck of what cartoons were on in my childhood.

[Comic-Reader Lad]

While Marvel certainly be confusing, I like the feeling of the continued storyline. DC seemingly to reset itself so often really made it hard for me to want to jump in when I first got into comics. I also like Marvel focus on team books. Their lack of a house style also means that you get some really different artists.

I guess there's just this feeling that DC only really has Batman. I like Batman as an idea, but I never really got into "detective" comics.

The comment that DC has a house style and Marvel doesn't is kind of funny to me because Marvel was BUILT on the house style of Stan Lee's writing and Jack Kirby's art. With the exception of Ditko, the Lee-Kirby style was duplicated by their successors as a deliberate house style, while DC's books were very different. A Superman comic was, and is, very different from a Batman or Green Lantern comic in both story and art styles.

[Rosebunse]

The comment that DC has a house style and Marvel doesn't is kind of funny to me because Marvel was BUILT on the house style of Stan Lee's writing and Jack Kirby's art. With the exception of Ditko, the Lee-Kirby style was duplicated by their successors as a deliberate house style, while DC's books were very different. A Superman comic was, and is, very different from a Batman or Green Lantern comic in both story and art styles.

To some extent, you're right. Marvel was built on the Marvel Method and Kirby's artwork. But starting in the 00s, Marvel didn't really have a collective style the way DC did. There was an effort to bring in more interest snd variety by bringing on independent artists while enforcing the importance of the writer in the creative process.

And as a Marvel fan, I would argue that I was never really able to see the difference between Batman and Superman. Each of them are so brilliant and perfect that even with the different styles, they felt so similar to each other. This became especially true as Batman is Invincible basically became a meme.

I guess one thing I like is, well, Marvel allows their characters to look small. Superman and Batman, even when they are vulnerable, don't seem small. Same with GL and WW. Marvel characters can look very small.

[Prof. Warren]

The Marvel characters are just more interesting as fully developed people with relatable flaws and foibles. They're "real" in a way that DC's characters aren't.

DC characters, for the most part, were created in a simpler time and for a younger audience. They have an iconic shine to them that, I think, is always dangerous to try and sully. They're heroes that belong on Mt. Olympus. That's how they work best and how they should be treated. I love those characters and love the DC universe (when it's being written to its strengths) but ultimately DC works best for me in isolated spurts. The characters are so iconic that I enjoy reading them more in isolated stories rather than feeling invested in their ongoing struggles. And they're so timeless that, if I have an itch to read, say, a Batman or a Superman story, pulling out a favorite from back in the day satisfies that itch and feels just as relevant (sometimes more so) as anything new could.

Marvel, on the other hand, is an ongoing soap opera-ish tapestry that I want to stay current with (the fact that Marvel has never rebooted while DC has - always to confusing effect - only adds to that. I can read a new issue of Daredevil and know that everything going back to issue #1 is still a part of his history while if I read a new issue of Flash, or any DC character, I know that's not the case. I don't even think anyone at DC really knows how their continuity lines up anymore.). I also think Marvel and their characters have much more leeway for change and they can go through many creative hands and many different takes and yet still feel true to themselves. You can have Stan Lee's Daredevil and Frank Miller's Daredevil and Mark Waid's Daredevil, all of which are very different, and yet you still feel the connecting thread that carries through all these different eras.

Also, along with their more down to earth demeanor, Marvel's heroes have a natural humor to them that I've always found appealing and that doesn't have a ready equivalent to at DC. DC heroes aren't, by nature, jokesters. And that's fine. Aside from stuff like Keith Giffen's Justice League International, the DC universe isn't normally a place where you find much humor. But humor is a part of everyday life, even in stressful situations, and that aspect to Marvel, built into it from the very start, is a part of why it's more relatable to me.

Aside from the humor, I feel like there's also more pathos and tragedy to Marvel's heroes. They experience setbacks and disappointments and have everyday challenges that feel more real than what DC heroes experience on a regular basis.

DC comics were my first comics as a kid and I'll always have a nostalgic love of them and will continue to periodically revisit that world. But Marvel has, for the reasons listed above, simply sustained my interest much more.

[Anthony Shaw]

The majority of my favourite comic runs come from Marvel.

Same with me. My favorite comic stories are various Marvel runs from the Jim Shooter era.

[Jman27]

First Marvel has Spiderman so that's an automatic win. Second I feel like Marvel have more memorable characters than DC does. I can relate more to Marvel characters there is only like maybe two Dc characters I understand but thats it.

[pageturner]

I dont

I dont prefer one over then other.

I get books from both companies both have characters I have interest in and enjoy. I never got the hate of one over the other.