I think we can agree that there are areas where Marvel definitely outperforms DC. Being the most consistently most popular superhero comics publisher. Being the most consistently most popular superhero movie studio (at least in the past decade). But DC wins some, too. It does animation better, on TV and video releases. Um, that's probably it. Because Marvel has never come even close to that. The only Marvel cartoons I've ever been interested in were Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and X-Men, and they were decades ago, and...that's pretty much true of everyone.
So in order to do a comic like this, Marvel has to...Anyway, it may work for young readers, but not for older ones. There is one thing from the comic I really enjoyed, and that was Ty Templeton's Daily Bugle Funnies, parodies of actual comic strips with Marvel characters: the Spider-Man Peanuts, the Thor Hagar the Horrible, the Peter Parker Dilbert, the Ant-Man Little Orphan Annie (which was the oddest creative choice, not because of Ant-Man but because of...Little Orphan Annie???). Templeton has done these before, and will in all likelihood do them again, and the irony of it is that I know him from...comics versions of DC animation.
Anyway, this example isn't from this comic, but here it is anyway:
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DC has definitely done better with animation, probably because they really committed to it after the success of Batman The Animated Series. At some point I'll have to rent the new animated version of Red Son.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, it was Marvel/Sony that won an Oscar for Best Animated Picture for Into the Spider-Verse, so maybe Marvel will do more of that.
ReplyDeleteI can't even...I loved the trailers for Into the Spider-Verse, but the movie itself turned out to be even more spastic than Teen Titans Go!...And that's saying something!
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