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Cliché for the Day: Marvel vs. DC
KharBevNor:
2000 AD.
No, seriously. When I was growing up, my only exposure to American comics was mainly through tv shows and movies, and Batman was the only character who ever really clicked with me: Batman: The Animated Series and Batman of the Future were really good, and the few Batman trade paperbacks I have are all good to really good, but really none of the characters from either DC or Marvel grabs me as much as, say, Halo Jones or Judge Dredd. I think it's mainly the fucking ridiculous costumes. I just can't look at someone like Green Lantern or Superman and not think 'what a twazzock'. Fair enough, many 2000 AD characters look bizarre, but it sticks just about enough tongue in cheek to justify it all. Apart from 2000 AD, most of the other comics I like are either British (including classic Warrior, Victor and Hotspur stuff from the 60's to the 80's) or, of course, Japanese. Hellsing is the only comic I've actually followed as it was published (via on-the-fly translated scans of Young King Ours), everything else I buy as trade paperbacks.
But seriously, 2000 AD
spidergland:
Oh hell yeah, Johnny Alpha was the man!
Personally I think DC are great for just reading once in a while, nothing too in-depth. But I am all for talking more about 2000AD, that shit was the bomb. I don't think I've read it since I was 15 but its all coming back to me now.
KharBevNor:
I got into 2000 AD after I read this book about the history of comics when I was 12. There was a full page reproduction of a classic 2000 AD cover (like, prog 70 or something) with Judge Dredd riding straight out of the picture on his Lawmaster, all guns firing, with other judges on Lawmasters and Pat-wagons following, all firing wildly, with the luridly printed caption 'JUDGE DREDD BRINGS LAW TO THE CURSED EARTH!'. I immediately went out and bought a Judge Dredd trade paperback, and the rest is history. I followed it with the complete Ballad of Halo Jones (the best comic by a vastly famous comics writer that no one has ever read. Seriously, buy it now, it's incredible. I pray daily that one day Alan Moore will regain the rights to the character and complete the other promised seven issues chronicling Halo's entire life), and various Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper and ABC Warriors collections (I consider Dredd, Johnny Alpha and the Rogue Trooper to be the 'holy trinity' of 2000 AD).
Nodaisho:
I have to go with DC just for the imprints, I don't read many comics, mostly just check out TPBs from the library, but Sandman and Top Ten are the two best I have read recently, one is vertigo, and one is America's best comics, imprint of Wildstorm, imprint of DC. I want to try to find some hellblazer TPBs and Watchmen (it got removed from my library a month or so before I wanted to check it out). But, like I said, I am not much of a comic person, so I don't really think about the labels.
edit: Oh, and the funeral in top ten making reference to how comic book deaths are never permanent scored it bonus points.
ThePQ4:
I personally like Marvel best. They've just got more heroes that I enjoy (X-Men, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Ultimates, etc, etc), but I've got a soft spot for Superman and Batman from D.C.
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