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Post by riv86672 on Nov 17, 2024 14:12:11 GMT -5
I agree with Hal so much! I can think of a bunch of cosmic DC stuff that I like, Green Lantern and LSH being prominent in my memories, but a lot of Kirby’s FF and Thor tips the scales in Marvel’s favor. Likewise I agree with Prince Hal quite a bit. The Legion fan in me wants to give some extra credit to DC on this one, but PH really nailed overall why I must make mine Marvel this go around. ^^^I think DC has the better -future- but Marvel has the better -cosmic- scene. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2024 15:14:57 GMT -5
Likewise I agree with Prince Hal quite a bit. The Legion fan in me wants to give some extra credit to DC on this one, but PH really nailed overall why I must make mine Marvel this go around. ^^^I think DC has the better -future- but Marvel has the better -cosmic- scene. In terms of who has the most imaginative future, then yes I would lean more towards DC largely due to classic era Legion. Marvel has had some really interesting future-based storylines as well over the years, and I probably like the 2099 world (at least from the original titles in the 90's) and in particular the Doom driven stories the most, though that's more of a "near future" and a bit of a different animal than the Legion. A bit related, Kang has always been my favorite Marvel villain, and while as a time traveler he has spanned not only the future but past, present, and outside of time proper itself, I always wanted to see him as a somewhat grander (at times even existential) threat ala the Time Trapper. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 17, 2024 16:16:12 GMT -5
By and large, I don’t like “cosmic” comics. Which seems weird since I spent those years loving pretty hard science fiction. I guess funnybook SF never measured up to Heinlein, Asimov or Simak. I did like Kirby and Lee’s stuff on FF. And I read Legion for a bit during the l height of the Levitz/Giffen era. But really I just don’t care about cosmic.
So…a tie?
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Post by foxley on Nov 17, 2024 16:18:54 GMT -5
So-called "cosmic" storylines bore me but marvel probably does them better (based on popular opinion). I don't think I'm really qualified to vote on this one.
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Post by riv86672 on Nov 17, 2024 19:29:34 GMT -5
In terms of who has the most imaginative future, then yes I would lean more towards DC largely due to classic era Legion. Marvel has had some really interesting future-based storylines as well over the years, and I probably like the 2099 world (at least from the original titles in the 90's) and in particular the Doom driven stories the most, though that's more of a "near future" and a bit of a different animal than the Legion. A bit related, Kang has always been my favorite Marvel villain, and while as a time traveler he has spanned not only the future but past, present, and outside of time proper itself, I always wanted to see him as a somewhat grander (at times even existential) threat ala the Time Trapper. ^^^Imaginative/better, I’m good w. either! As for the rest, I was never a 2099 fan even at the time (other than Ghost Rider he ruled), and it’s aged badly (to me personally); all nineties grim and angsty. Also never been a fan of Kang, even as a kid I found him boring. He’s a HUGE black mark on the Busiek/Perez Avengers run for me. Such a bloated story, it just would. Not. End. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 17, 2024 23:59:46 GMT -5
DC for the Super Moby Dick of Space, Marvel is always all "This is all super duper serious you guuuuyyyyys" with it's cosmic stories.
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Post by commond on Nov 18, 2024 6:17:17 GMT -5
Not being a fan of cosmic characters or stories, I'm tempted to call it a wash, but it's hard to look past Kirby's creations. Marvel gets the nod.
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Post by driver1980 on Nov 18, 2024 8:56:42 GMT -5
Okay, Day 4 and it’s D. The word chosen is Dystopian.
What’s your favourite dystopian comic/arc/run? It can be a future timeline (apocryphal or not), a particular run by a writer, or the entirety of a comic’s existence.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2024 10:00:42 GMT -5
X-Men: Days of Future Past
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 18, 2024 10:29:43 GMT -5
Unlike Cosmic, I love me some Dystopian funnybooks. Honestly, this is a bit like trying to pick a favorite child. Does one go with the blatantly obvious, like V For Vendetta? Does one go for a longish running quality work like Transmetropolitan? Does one go a little more obscure like, say, Skreemer?
For sheer bang for the buck I'll probably go with V For Vendetta. But Transmet is super close.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 18, 2024 10:52:23 GMT -5
Kamandi
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 18, 2024 11:07:48 GMT -5
Oh, man. There are so many good ones, but I think I'll let recency bias kick in and pick one I first read a few months ago: the future world as depicted in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
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Post by DubipR on Nov 18, 2024 11:12:13 GMT -5
Oh there's a quite a few dystopian comic books that are good
The best of the lot.... Akira
Also worth reading:
The Martha Washington legacy (Give Me Liberty)
Transmetropolitan
Y the Last Man
DMZ
The Missive
V for Vendetta
Camelot 3000
Empire
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Post by riv86672 on Nov 18, 2024 11:43:24 GMT -5
It was more the idea than the execution, but the thought of an old west gunfighter, especially THE old west gunfighter, in a Mad Max type setting really excited me when it was announced.  The actual book was pretty meh, though. There were a few good stories among all the blandness, and the last issue is for me, one of the best Jonah Hex stories bar none. |
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Post by commond on Nov 18, 2024 16:40:05 GMT -5
I'm tempted to go with a classic like Akira or Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), but I'll choose Kazuo Umezu's The Drifting Classroom where an entire elementary school is flung into a post-apocalyptic future and the children are forced to fend for themselves.
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