and actually, for as much as i really loath anime on principle... i do in fact own and enjoy a few films (akira, ghost in the shell, etc..) but man... the crap to decent ratio seems pretty skewed IMO ;)
now marvel... yeah, i fully admit that they publish a whole lot of garbage... and my distaste for anything with a goddamn X in the title is well documented... but on the same note, i feel they publish some of the best stuff in comics ever (Captain Marvel, Thor, AVENGERS! \m/, Daredevil, etc...) But, yeah... it's mainly a matter of taste. Personally the "antiquated comic code" is something i relish and think on fondly in my nostalgia... the silverage of superhero comics is, IMO, where it's freakn' AT! yo... and the more modern "edgy" shit... like the punisher, and pint-sized-canadians-with-anger-issues make me want to fucking vomit. (that being said, i still hold that when done properly, the "dark/gritty" style can be insanely moving... a'la: Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Brian m. Bendis, etc...)
This is a big part of why i've been gravitating toward DC comics a lot lately as well... DC is definitely more of a surreal hero-fantasy style than marvel on the whole (Avengers being the exception, and still the greatest thing in comics EVER... despite how much i'd like to personally skull fuck the current writer with a 5lb. hammer).
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Re: man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)
Date: 2004-05-26 06:04 pm (UTC)and actually, for as much as i really loath anime on principle... i do in fact own and enjoy a few films (akira, ghost in the shell, etc..) but man... the crap to decent ratio seems pretty skewed IMO ;)
now marvel... yeah, i fully admit that they publish a whole lot of garbage... and my distaste for anything with a goddamn X in the title is well documented... but on the same note, i feel they publish some of the best stuff in comics ever (Captain Marvel, Thor, AVENGERS! \m/, Daredevil, etc...) But, yeah... it's mainly a matter of taste. Personally the "antiquated comic code" is something i relish and think on fondly in my nostalgia... the silverage of superhero comics is, IMO, where it's freakn' AT! yo... and the more modern "edgy" shit... like the punisher, and pint-sized-canadians-with-anger-issues make me want to fucking vomit. (that being said, i still hold that when done properly, the "dark/gritty" style can be insanely moving... a'la: Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Brian m. Bendis, etc...)
This is a big part of why i've been gravitating toward DC comics a lot lately as well... DC is definitely more of a surreal hero-fantasy style than marvel on the whole (Avengers being the exception, and still the greatest thing in comics EVER... despite how much i'd like to personally skull fuck the current writer with a 5lb. hammer).