![]() Marvel had bitching heroes with claws and guns (I wasn't as into Wolverine as my friends- I wrote fanfics where he lost to Captain America school assignment that included a crossover with a Farley Mowatt story about Owls- but even I thought he was PRETTY cool). They looked sillier, had goofier names (and keep in mind this is BEFORE I was familiar with the Legion of Super-Heroes), and there were all these Earths that seemed way too complicated to figure out. So you can imagine why growing up, you'd think that DC sucked ass. What the hell is THAT about? And Batman DIED? THEY DON'T EXPLAIN THIS IN THAT ISSUE AT ALL!! The Knights of the Galaxy? Kong the Untamed? THE KEY? And imagine being ten years old and wondering why in the balls there was a Justice League and a Justice SOCIETY, and the latter one was full of OLD MEN. ![]() Killer Moth seemed like a bad-ass villain. Kid Flash dressed way better than his mentor. I already thought Aquaman was a stupid name and had a dumb costume, but HAHAHAHA OH MY GOD, there's actually an AQUALAD!!!? He's on his very own DC card! With a goofy little afro and everything! And then I read a DC's Who's Who- J-K and discover that there's a ton MORE lame characters! Okay, so Kole looked great, and Judomaster seemed awesome. The first Flash comic I ever read featured Wally talking to a man who actually called himself THE ELONGATED MAN, and they hung around with a gigantically-fat black guy named CHUNK. This is called "Confirmation Bias", but I'll be damned if DC didn't go out of its way to prove my bias correct. I had a few "Three-Packs" of their stuff, and read 'em, if only to prove what I already knew- that Marvel was better. It's not like I didn't look into DC's stuff at ALL- comics were comics, right? I'd check out a book or two, or some DC Trading Cards (totes inferior to Marvel's, to be certain), just to see what was going on. Except Batman- every Marvel Zombie still liked Batman- he felt more like a Marvel guy anyways. Its heroes all had silly names and goofy costumes, their villains sucked and too many of them had names that ended in "-o", and their history was super-confusing, and all of their stories were just DUMB. When you're a ten-year-old Jab living in 1991 Canada, and your friends are all way into comics and you want to be like them, and THEY'RE all into Marvel and not DC, why wouldn't you be, too? DC was awful. I mean, why argue about it? This was simply the way it WAS. THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, JUSTICE SOCIETY AND THE ALL-STAR SQUADRON:
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