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Thomas Is Awesome · 08-19-2011, 08:36 AM

but Wolverine is my favorite Marvel guy. Screw you, I don't mind being on the bandwagon.

**thechrishaley** · 08-19-2011, 08:39 AM

I thought Spider-Man was your favorite Marvel guy.

Thomas Is Awesome · (This post was last modified: 08-19-2011 08:46 AM by Thomas Is Awesome.)

He was for a long, long time. But i just kinda lost touch with him. Does that sound silly to say about a fictional character? He's just veered really far from what he was, and the spidey i love is just a very small part of who he has been in his fifty years. My spidey is a high school college kid with problems.

Whereas Wolverine, the more convulted and further away from his beginnings he gets the more he is Wolverine, you know? It's what's come to define him, where Spidey is pretty far from what defines him to me personally.

I feel like I love a VERSION of Spidey, where I dig Wolvie as a whole.

**BIGREDROBOT** · 08-19-2011, 09:26 AM

I'm a biiig Marvel nerd. And I really love Superman. Which didn't happen until I read Supreme, strangely enough.

jason1749 · 08-19-2011, 10:19 AM

I started out as a Marvel zombie (thank you Secret Wars), but Batman was always the coolest motherfucker this side of Han Solo to me.

winnr · 08-19-2011, 11:31 AM

I think it's got a lot to do with the time I came into comics, but I've never chosen a side or even thought about it really. I just read whatever's good, regardless of publisher. But there is a defined difference between the two and I really like that.

Maybe it's got a lot to do with mostly avoiding the "universe" type stuff like events and everything. I think those work better with Marvel too.

**thechrishaley** · 08-19-2011, 05:33 PM

(08-19-2011 09:26 AM)bigredrobot Wrote: I'm a biiig Marvel nerd. And I really love Superman. Which didn't happen until I read Supreme, strangely enough.

I'd like to hear more of this story.

**Koltreg** · 08-20-2011, 02:14 AM

My first comic was Lobster Johnson and then I got money to read comics and I read whatever seemed fun off of the shelves.

**BIGREDROBOT** · 08-20-2011, 03:17 AM

(08-19-2011 05:33 PM)thechrishaley Wrote:
(08-19-2011 09:26 AM)bigredrobot Wrote: I'm a biiig Marvel nerd. And I really love Superman. Which didn't happen until I read Supreme, strangely enough.

I'd like to hear more of this story.

I'd always pick up Marvel books at 7-11 because I liked the art and characters better. They just seemed cooler and fresher, whereas DC comics always looked dated to me. I still remember the cover to a Captain America comic I had, where Cap looked like a total maniac fighting these weirdo Right-wingers while surrounded by fire. It was really weird and subversive and rad. In my mind, Marvel, like Wu-Tang, was for the children.

So yeah, Frank Miller Batman stuff aside, my forays into the DCU were pretty nonexistent. When I got back into comics by way of Morrison's New X-Men, I got into his Doom Patrol, Flex Mentallo and Animal Man, which led to me making my way through Alan Moore's work on stuff like Swamp Thing, Watchmen, his America's Best Comics books and, finally, Supreme.

I mean, it's obviously a Superman rip-off. And done with such love and care, I almost can't believe that the curmudgeonly Moore wrote it, it's such a love letter to Superman. Like All-Star Superman, it takes the character and makes him work in the 21st century, not by retconning into oblivion the stuff that The Man In the Moon might find embarrassing.

I loved the depth he added to the character, the Golden and Silver and Bronze Age nods, the way he took all the goofy stuff associated with Superman and DC comics in general and made it cool. The super-heavy key to the Fortress, the mermaid ex-girlfriend, the weird trophies from across the galaxy, the super-cousins and super-dogs and future action teens and all that jazz. All the stories happened, and they worked. It felt a lot like Flex Mentallo and, later, how All-Star Superman would feel.

It made me understand Superman, this guy who seemed to younger me like a boring old dimple-chinned doofus. He was just a good guy, trying hard to help people. No real pathos or rage. didn't exploit or abuse his power. Just a kind, benevolent, mythical presence.

I can get behind that.

**thechrishaley** · 08-20-2011, 03:45 AM

(08-20-2011 03:17 AM)bigredrobot Wrote: It made me understand Superman, this guy who seemed to younger me like a boring old dimple-chinned doofus. He was just a good guy, trying hard to help people. No real pathos or rage. didn't exploit or abuse his power. Just a kind, benevolent, mythical presence.

I can get behind that.

Cool story, bro.

No, seriously, I like that story. I think it is cool.