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Originally Posted by DrPhil
This has been a battle among my siblings, parents, and me forever. LOL. The family members who believe Marvel is better are obviously the coolest family members.  I believe my Significant Other prefers DC which shows a total lack of comic book awareness. X-Men, in and of itself, kicks DC's ass. |
I like your SO more and more all the time.
I never liked Marvel as a kid, and I've never really liked it since. None of the Marvel superheros ever appealed to me, and I didn't like the stories as much. X-Men never hooked me at all -- couldn't care less about them.
I read something once where the author compared Marvel and DC to mythologies -- DC is Greek mythology and Marvel is Norse mythology. The central ethos of DC, he said, is that you (the superhero) have a responsiblity to yourself and society, to you'd better be ready for it and face it. The Marvel ethos, by contrast, is that you'd better be ready because lots of undeserved things beyond your control are going to happen to you. DC is about the virtues and flaws of extraordinary people, while Marvel is about the personal dramas of ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
I think there's some truth to that.
And I always liked Greek mythology better than Norse.