tupiaz

i have no idea who is in charge over at DC Comics in making sure their team stays at their headquarters and doesnt get signed away to a rival company, but he or she is doing a terrible job of it thus far.

seriously DC has no talent anymore, they are hanging by a thread with people like Greg Capullo and Scott Snyder who are almost garunteed to put out quality month in and month out. Not mention, i dont have the stats to really confirm this, but i feel like Marvel's team is on average a lot younger than the people working at DC.

DiDio is 55 years old

Keith Giffen is 62 years old

Ray Fawkes is 48 years old

Greg Capullo is 52 years old

DeMatteis is 61 years old

Morrison is 55 years old

Jim Lee is 50 years old

i am not saying that these guys are incapable of writing good material because of their age but it says something about your company who gets bashed on low quality titles and its about the same dudes who were writing comics at DC in the late 90s and early 2000s. Marvel has new people, new ideas, people willing to take risks on stories because they are younger and sees things differently.

hell i dont know sh*t tbh, and i could be way wrong. but all i know is, if they lose another one of their creative minds that actually is doing good work for them, i have no doubts that Marvel will continue to be the #1 publisher for months and years to come.

(Jeff Lemire might be Marvel's next target, hell he is writing the new Hawkeye series, he could be swapped up, sense he aint writing any big title over at DC right now)

@tupiaz: That's not what I meant by that.I meant that the stories weren't overly dark until deep into their respective runs.

Perfect. And as our friend JRiddle observed, the statement that "every writer since Miller has written nothing but a depressed DD" is not an argument. It simply isn't true... not even close.

@qtmxd: Not only did Karl Kesel do it but Joe Kelly did it as well.It's not fresh.The whole argument that every single writer wrote Matt dark and depressed puzzles me.Ann Nocenti did not right a depressed Matt until damn near towards the end of her five year tenure,D.G.Chickhester did not write a depressed Matt until Fall From Grace which was also near the end of another lengthy run,same with Denny O'neil witch ultimately lead to Born Again after the Micha Synn arc and a bunch of other random stories.The only person who really wrote a miserable and depressed Matt was Ed Brubaker,even though he went through same of the worst times under Bendis he was never drenched in depression.