HentMas said:
k-ossuburb said:
but I have fears that it may get a little too "Marvel" with things involving mutation from radiation or a science experiment gone horribly wrong.
well... to be fair DC comics almost always point out that most of the super villians gain their powers because of a mutation or a science experiment that goes horribly wrong, while the super heroes are mostly just that way because they were either born with those powers or they have something that enhances their natural abilities
instead "Marvel" universe takes the other point, where mutation and experiments are left and right but it´s more common that the "villians" dont have super powers, just tools and weaponry (king ping, dr. octopus etc)
or at least thats how i see both companies, and the philosophy they are trying to portray
Okay, okay. Sorry about not being totally clear on what I meant by that it's entirely my fault and I accept that with full responsibility.
I wasn't trying to start some kind of flame war between which comic book company is better or who does what and why (I myself do prefer the
VERY slightly less mainstream comics from IDW or indie comics from various sources and publishers, but that's just me).
Please don't take this as an attack, Marvel and DC are both incredible; I mean let's face it they're the most famous and most popular publishing houses since their early stages back in the 1940's and you'll be hard-pressed to find ANYONE who hasn't heard of Batman, Superman, Spiderman, The Fantastic 4, The Hulk or Captain America but I merely used "Marvel" (in quotation marks to try to emphasise that I didn't mean it literally, I obviously failed in that regard so, again, I'm sorry) to just put my point across that there's not really anything you can do any more that hasn't been done already and I find Marvel to be the most famous publisher because more people seem to like them (who I've personally met, maybe you've met more DC fans, I dunno). Put it this way: if I said Marvel in a conversation people generally think of comic books but if I said DC they'll think I'm asking how to re-wire an electrical socket.
I find Marvel to be more synonymous with comic books in general and the narratives they have using science experiments and radiation and so-on are pretty hard-rooted into their repertoire are (pretty much) what makes them what they are since it's hard to think of, say, Spiderman without thinking of that radioactive spider that bit him (in the old version, I think they changed it to a genetic mutation in the new version) or The Hulk without thinking of the science experiment that turned him into the mean, green, smashing machine.
Because I personally have the impression that Marvel is a pretty good representative of comic books as a whole and how their narratives of the scifi variety are so closely linked I hope you understand why I used the word "Marvel" as my own little way of saying "comic books in general" because it also --in my mind-- represented the whole "science experiment-gone-wrong" and the whole "radiation/mutation" thing because I thought that it would've been easier to understand my point if I had linked it to something that already existed that everyone found accessible at the sheer mention of it.
Once again, I am really sorry that I wasn't clear about the whole thing it was a stupid and ignorant for me to say, I'll be sure to think a little more into what I type before I type it.
(PS: sorry for this apology being so long-winded)
