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DC vs. Marvel

Who ya got?

  • DC. Marvel is for chumps

    Votes: 8 26.7%

  • Marvel you elitest fucks!

    Votes: 17 56.7%

  • There needs to be more tits on this board

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • I like Dark Horse... but you've probably never heard of them.

    Votes: 9 30.0%
  • Total voters
    30
Sean Renaud said:
Don't get me wrong, I respect that people want to collect comics the same way I respect that people want to collect Beenie Babies or stamps or something. In the case of comics it drives me a little nuts because it really ended up hurting the industry and it still hasn't recovered.

The reason the originals (Superman, Ironman, Batman) are expensive is because nobody respected them. And then all the owners when off to WWII and then their mothers recycled them so they were rare. Which was great, but you could still pick them up everywhere.

The reason the 80's and 90's are expensive (Spawn, Vampirella) is largely because the industry trying to recreate those wildly expensive comics printed limited first editions of every fucking thing. And collectors snatched em up and promptly sealed them in vaults never to be read. Which lead not surprisingly to them not being read and in many cases not becoming popular because there was no copy floating around the school locker room or anything. Talk about unintended consequences.

I've got a handful of comics that I bought in the hopes they'd one day go up in price (and I bought two of those so I could read the cheap one) but that's why I largely read Graphic Novels now. Wait until a story is worthy of being collected in one place and call it a day.
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Theres a lot of truth in what you said. I think DC started that whole fad with The death of Superman.
Wolverines mutant ability was to sell comics. He started popping up in every comic that had failing circulation. Then they started doing that with the X-Men, which caused me to become so disgusted and stop collecting comics altogether.

I think I have every Wolverine & X-men related graphic Novel up top the time I stopped collecting. I mostly bought them because I didn't want to damage the comics I collected. If I like a story arc I will reread it a few times. Case in point Fatal Attractions., which was the last story arc I remember buying.
 
BBG1970 said:
Theres a lot of truth in what you said. I think DC started that whole fad with The death of Superman.
Wolverines mutant ability was to sell comics. He started popping up in every comic that had failing circulation. Then they started doing that with the X-Men, which caused me to become so disgusted and stop collecting comics altogether.

I think I have every Wolverine & X-men related graphic Novel up top the time I stopped collecting. I mostly bought them because I didn't want to damage the comics I collected. If I like a story arc I will reread it a few times. Case in point Fatal Attractions., which was the last story arc I remember buying.
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Death of Superman and Batman Broken (or whatever Origin of Bane was called) were publicity stunts pulled by desperate people. The damage was done by then. I think we'll see a resurgance in the next few years now that book stores are dead. When my Mom and Dad were dating and when I was a wee lad (like these are stories I'm told no stories I remember) my Mom collected X-Men and she'd buy the new issue at the register instead of Tabloid Papers. By the time I was old enough to read I had to drag my parents to a comic book store to get a comic and. . .that didn't work out frequently enough to keep up with comics.

Wolverine is his own problem don't get me wrong. Literally, put Wolverine on a cover it sells books. But at least they sold.

Back to my point while it will kill collectors to some extent I think now that I can get X-Men on my nook and get a subscription to damn near an entire comic company and read all zillion books they put out. Fan fucking tastic.
 
while I no longer collect them, I have a fondness for what I did collect and like having the hard copies. I also like the old advertisements like 300 army men for .99cents and "real " 2 person submarines you can build yourself for $3. The good old days :)
 
See I remember them more from the bad old days when video game advertisements showed everything but the video game
 
 
You know I've murdered people for less than insulting Lucas's Howard the Duck.
 
BBG1970 said:
I have those too, hell if I know which box they're in though. I was just going thru a box of comics I had and wholy shit I forgot about some of this stuff.
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I should do that. I have a bookshelf full of comics in my basement. My oldest is an issue of sgt fury and his howling commandos.

Oh and sean youre thinking of knightfall
 
You know who is over rated? Deadpool. He's an asshat and Logan would prison rape that tweaked out fuckhead.
 
Marvel tends to make better movies, DC makes better animated shows.

Comic-wise? Both are terrible anymore, read IDW instead.
 
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