Terry ’s Comments (group member since Oct 02, 2012)

Terry ’s comments from the Who Came up with Person Man? group.

Dan wrote: "Transmetroploitan and the first couple Authority trades are pretty entertaining. I like the premise of Planetary and will probably give it a shot in 2013."

I hereby order you to read Planetary NOW, Dan! It is freakin' awesome!

Even Kyle Rayner would like it!

Dan wrote: "...and by replacing Nick Fury with his son that happens to look like Samuel L. Jackson in the main Marvel universe."

Wow, they did that?! I thought the Sam Jackson Fury was solely the Ultimate-verse.

Dan wrote: "My favorite Superman stories in recent memory were The Sentry and Supreme Power, Volume 1: Contact."

Yeah, I generally enjoyed Sentry and I've been meaning to pick up Supreme Power...it looked good whenever I leafed through it in the comic shop back in the day. :)

I'm generally with Dan on this one: DC has the real icons, the archetypal heroes that seem to loom large in the psyche, but Marvel has a knack for making heroes 'real'...or at least more real than Supes, Bats and WW tend to seem.

I think I would have to say that I generally side with DC, but in a very limited way: I like what they do (or at least used to do) with their Elseworlds titles where they finally gave some lee-way to creators to actually do something interesting with these icons instead of just tow the party line of an editorial fiat. They also have the Vertigo line which, in its heyday at least, was another breeding ground for awesome. I love a lot of Marvel characters (Hawkeye, the Avengers, Daredevil, and Spiderman are all awesome), but when I look back to the stories and titles I remember it generally seems to be DC ones on the list.

Sadly the only place where I think Marvel truly outshines their rival is in the movie-making arena which is kind of sad I guess.

I don't know which of the two is the more heinous perpetrator of the cross-over event and re-booting of their in-story history: I haven't collected comics for about four years now and even when I stopped the number of re-boots and cross-over "events" was ridiculous.

Quite frankly I think I like it best when writers and artists 'rip-off' the classic heroes and make new stories where shit actually happens like Warren Ellis' 'Planetary' (with the best dark version of the FF I've ever seen, not to mention numerous other pulp and comic heroes reinvented), Alan Moore's 'Terra Obscura' and 'Watchmen' and other of that ilk.