Speaking only for myself, Marvel has great characters and mostly terrible comic writing right now, and is getting run in circles in that medium by DC. I've loved most of the New 52 reboot they've done.
The difference, though, is that Marvel is exceptional in the film space, so the comics are of limited relevance the further into the Marvel universe we go. Marvel Now comes across as a knee-jerk response to the New 52, and it basically doesn't work for me, leaving Marvel with ultimately two interesting titles - Hawkeye (which is amazing and strange and modern all at once) and Ultimate Spider-Man (which is written by Brian Michael Bendis and only Brian Michael Bendis, and thus actually appears to make sense across the close to 15 years. Meanwhile, DC can't seem to get their movies together in a competent way unless Christopher Nolan is involed.
But then again, I'm a big Spider-man and Wonder Woman fan, so I may be atypical in some regards.
EDIT: And right after I praise it, Marvel cancels Hawkeye. Go figure.
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Date: 2014-07-16 02:59 pm (UTC)The difference, though, is that Marvel is exceptional in the film space, so the comics are of limited relevance the further into the Marvel universe we go. Marvel Now comes across as a knee-jerk response to the New 52, and it basically doesn't work for me, leaving Marvel with ultimately two interesting titles - Hawkeye (which is amazing and strange and modern all at once) and Ultimate Spider-Man (which is written by Brian Michael Bendis and only Brian Michael Bendis, and thus actually appears to make sense across the close to 15 years. Meanwhile, DC can't seem to get their movies together in a competent way unless Christopher Nolan is involed.
But then again, I'm a big Spider-man and Wonder Woman fan, so I may be atypical in some regards.
EDIT: And right after I praise it, Marvel cancels Hawkeye. Go figure.