5/15/2007 - Hi, I'm a Marvel...and I'm a DC.

The Marvel vs. DC feud has been going on pretty much since Fantastic Four #1 when Stan Lee was commissioned to do a book that would rival the Justice League. Stan took it upon himself to break out of the mold and create a superhero team that would be radically different in that it was more like a traditional family with family problems.

Stan would go on to create a mythological pantheon of heroes that stood out against the more bland DC heroes at that time. These heroes would be believable in the "real" world and always had some kind of edge to them that made their powers somewhat a curse as well as a gift. That was the genius of Stan's creations and I consider him to be a personal hero of mine.

It took the movie and special effects industries close to 40 years to catch up to Stan's vision, and now we are finally seeing the results with such hits as the X-Men and Spider-Man trilogies. Of course the DC superheroes have their own movie franchises, too, and thus the feud between the two comic book companies has extended itself into the movies. Of course, being a Marvel fan (my favorite hero is the Incredible Hulk, btw), I got a big kick out of this next video.



Whereas Marvel is releasing two or more movies a year, DC is struggling to produce one a year. While Batman Begins was a decent way to reboot the series (anything would have been an improvement over Batman and Robin), Superman Returns struggled to gain mass appeal as Bryan Singer's X-Men movies. Don't get me wrong... I'd like to see both studios doing well, as I really enjoy the comic book superhero genre. It's just that I see a similar parallel in what happened in the comic book feud between Marvel and DC as to what's happening in the movie feud. DC may be more iconic, but Marvel appeals to a greater audience.