oh marvel. so stinky. lol. i don't know, even though more people have heard of superman and batman, i think more people read marvel. this is just my sort of "finger on the pulse" evaluation. but more people seem to have read spiderman or the x-men. but maybe that's cos when we were little kids, DC was doing strange things, and Marvel was on an upswing. In the time i was talking about above when i loved the new comics that were coming out, DC was in a really great place, creatively, and Marvel was in a bit of a hole--of course, I think they always are! ;) OK, well, i mean, not that Marvel doesn't have some great writers. . . heck, Mark Waid, my comics god, has written for them, he did Fantastic Four for a bit, and I almost read X-Men when Joss was writing it. He was maybe doing Amazing X-Men? I don't know, it's so crazy. Anyway, in addition to thinking Marvel's continuity is out of control, I just don't like the universe--it's darker, more pessimistic and stuff, whereas DC is a little more idealistic. I mean, fuck, people fly around in spandex saving people. You don't want to make that escapist? Not that there aren't problems in the DCU, obviously. Also, outside certain X-Men and the Thing, I don't like many of the characters.

Anyways. I just like analyzing the differences between the two and the reasons for my preferences.

I have a quiz on stuff I should know about my host country before I go, I'm totally going to post it so you and the other british people on my friends list are going to have to help with that. Maybe just England. I don't remember what the quiz is about.