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The DC/Marvel pendulum swing has always intruiged me, too. Like the Republican/Democrat swing, it comes and goes, back and forth, in a cycle that seems to be approximately 10-15 years on the average.
In terms of being the exciting, risk-taking, boundary-breaking, fresh idea company, Marvel has definitely been running with the torch for about 3 years now, whereas contemporary DC is, on the whole, pretty damn boring.
Joe Kelly's JLA scripts, which started out well with his Wonder Woman "Golden Perfect" story, are so wildly inconsistent (and lately, 80% bad) that I can't stomach them. That and the constant and poor guest artists (instead of the solid Mankhe & Ngyuen) render me unable to lay down cash for JLA ever since the very very beginning of Fall of Atlantis or whatever that God-awful storyline was. It seems like one in seven issues is good and worth buying.
DC is getting John Byrne to do a JLA story (present continuity in the regular JLA series; it's set to be a 5-parter) - Byrne will plot and pencil, with Chris Claremont dialoguing. (Sad news for those of us who feel Claremont's writing and yes, even his dialogue have gone down the toilet, as has Byrne's writing and art) That might get some fan attention, but if it's bad, it won't matter much.
Apparently Dan DiDio is trying to pull a Joey da Q in DC's offices, rallying the troops for fresh ideas and fresh blood. He's encountering some resistance, if you believe what you read in Rich Johnston's LYING IN THE GUTTERS column over at www.comicbookresources.com. |
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