mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall) (05/14/84)
In response to the last article on the net (dartmouth time)... i have
never been much of a dc fan... i started out a marvelite and have been one
for a dozen years, but i can't stand to see such a narrow-minded attack on
dc by someone who obviously doesn't know too much about the subject...
1) However long marvel's titles have been running, most of the dc titles have
some 20 years on all of them...
2) Granted, dc doesn't do as much with human relationships, but, as with
marvel, they have had their shining moments... early Warlord, the
original Swamp Thing, The New Teen Titans, Simonson&Goodwin Man-Hunter
(one of the most decorated series in the history of comics), a lot of
the Michael Fleicher stuff... they have their good points too... granted,
there aren't as many as marvel's, but they are there....
3) You obviously aren't taking into account the deterioration of marvel's
quality over the past two years... since they lost byrne on x-men, and
miller on daredevil, marvel has yet to produce any true classics in the
field... not to mention the rotting of flag-ship titles like the Avengers,
the X-men, and Captain America..... the defection of marvel talent to the
independents and dc over the past two years has hurt them a lot....
I still don't read much in dc... teen titans about covers it... but as the
fore-runners of the field, they deserve some respect... personally, i think the
true future of development in comics lies in the high-quality independents like
Cerebus the Aardvark, Journey, and others.... dc and marvel are too rooted in
old hat to produce the real big advances any more... as for the classics they
have had, my hat goes off to them...
Mark Modrall
mwm
Dartmouth College