DC has better television, Marvel has better films. The former has been true for 20 years now. The latter is more recent but I don't see it changing anytime soon.

I don't know about the cartoons, but if comparing Gotham, Flash and Arrow to Daredevil, Agent Carter and SHIELD? Then Marvels got the edge in both.

Gotham is kind of a mess, but Arrow and Flash are solid, clever and fun. SHIELD is just crippled by its format, though; it gives the impression of a show that's just spinning its wheels waiting for the next movie to tie in with. In fact, that's basically the entire plot of the first season. The smartest thing DC has done is not shackle its TV shows to the same universe as its movies.

HERE'S THE THING: Don't know if it's going to be good or bad, but I KNOW I'm going to see it.

We may not always agree, Professor Ashtar, but when we do it's a beautiful thing.

Of course, Image is better than either of those two old men, but the general sentiment - DC sucks, Marvel is better - is correct.

Now, when you say Marvel movies are better than DC movies... you're remembering that Marvel puts out 10 times as many movies and 90% of them are fucking terrible, right?

Suckerpunch. How he still gets movies in Hollywood is beyond me.

Suckerpunch was great.

Suckerpunch is the last movie I saw in the theater that actually made me feel robbed.

No, that you mention it. Awesome isn't it?

I couldn't be happier. Since I was a kid, and for most of my life, I've dreamed of seeing a decent Superhero movie, and it seemed like it was impossible. Now we have the effects, and we also have directors who grew up on this material.

After the Winter Soldier, I decided that I was a Marvel Studios fanvboy. Counting the days before age of Ultron.

Thank you, Scrimmjob. Share 5 with the vid, which was at least good schtick about of the deluge of demi-god dyspepsia that our country has contributed to world culture.

THANKS, US.

Give it time John, even you will be sick of this endlessly rehashed bullshit before too long.

Without that writers' strike a little over a decade ago, none of this would have happened.

Dark and gritty works for Batman -- isn't strictly necessary, but it does work for the character.

Superman's deal is that he's supposed to be aspirational: he uses his powers for the betterment of others, he sets a good example, if he knows you're in trouble he will be there for you. Fail to do that -- make Superman more scary than comforting -- and you've written a bad Superman.

Oh god, Bort, don't start this again...!

Tell me, do you screed?

You will.

If Batman's really confronting Superman in that dorky Bat-mecha-armor, I really, REALLY hope this movie turns out to be some hilarrible mangling of Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

Green Lantern could be even more ruthless. One time early in his career, he had a dream about turning his Eskimo sidekick into a seagull, and his power battery made it happen in real life. He can turn people into animals literally without even trying.

"Kingdom Come" was largely Mark Waid's condemnation of the 90s, Magog being the embodiment of everything wrong with 3dgy heroes.

Coincidentally enough, my favorite Superman sequence of all time involves KC Superman, but in a sequel of sorts. Right around the time the nuke was dropped on all the heroes and villains and Superman got royally pissed off (spoilers), KC Superman found himself transported to DC's main world circa 2008, and was cooling his heels at the Justice Society HQ while they nervously wondered what to do with this very angry and volatile new Superman:

http://www.paprikash.com/jsa10/