Someone who's mainly a DC fan
In a recent issue of the Daily Dunklin Democrat (from Missouri, I think), a writer talks about how he came to be a comics reader, and was mainly a DC fan:
if it were to imply that he doesn't/didn't read DC comics for ultra-darkness, well then, let's just say that I don't read Marvel for that either. And I've never been able to understand where anyone got the idea that any Marvel reader was into them for darkness. Of course some are, that's a given, but what genuine proof is there that all of Marvel's audience does? After all, Spider-Man, IMO, works best when it's got the bright side in motion, and when it began during the Silver Age, many of the adventures certainly did involve the art of fun. The same goes in fact for the Avengers, and thinking now of Avengers #221 from July 1982 that I've got at home, when She-Hulk was first invited to work with the EMH, it was the fact that it was written as both fun and funny that made it work for me.
So I'll have to hand it to the writer of this article, that he does make a fairly good point.
"I still read them today, mostly DC characters. Even though I subscribe to many Marvel titles, I still consider myself a DC man, for no reason other than that DC's heroes first caught my eye. These superheroes represented something that caught my attention, but what about them was so interesting?That's interesting, though I'll have to note that,
In my younger days I think it was because I yearned for the glory, or the seeming glory, others had in academics or the baseball field or the basketball court that I didn't. For me it was easier living vicariously through the glory of superheroes, knowing, on the outside I might be painfully ordinary, on the inside I had something infinitely greater than anyone with the ability to get an A, hit a home run, or score a three point shot."
if it were to imply that he doesn't/didn't read DC comics for ultra-darkness, well then, let's just say that I don't read Marvel for that either. And I've never been able to understand where anyone got the idea that any Marvel reader was into them for darkness. Of course some are, that's a given, but what genuine proof is there that all of Marvel's audience does? After all, Spider-Man, IMO, works best when it's got the bright side in motion, and when it began during the Silver Age, many of the adventures certainly did involve the art of fun. The same goes in fact for the Avengers, and thinking now of Avengers #221 from July 1982 that I've got at home, when She-Hulk was first invited to work with the EMH, it was the fact that it was written as both fun and funny that made it work for me.So I'll have to hand it to the writer of this article, that he does make a fairly good point.
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