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No probs ...as for the Green Lanterns there is one who is black, and three who are white. Parker’s still White in both main universes ...although in some others he is a young japanese boy, in another he is from India, in another a cyborg, another a mutant etc.


62 posted on 05/08/2010 12:48:38 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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The reason I liked Marvel in the ‘80s over DC was because it wasn’t so complicated that it had multiple universes with different versions of the characters crossing back and forth across them. The DC Crisis on Infinite Earths series looked utterly incomprehensible to me. Marvel was so much closer to a realistic, relatable world, which a few of the movies have captured well. It’s a shame that the Marvel comics editors have forgotten the relative simplicity of the good ol’ days and fallen into the same trap DC did with umpteen different versions of the same characters floating around. Even DC screwed up again and, after fixing that mess with Crisis, seemed to have brought all the goofiness back (with the writers saying they “missed it”).

Former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter has made the point that kids probably couldn’t begin to get into comics now because the continuity is an incomprehensible mess for even adults to understand. Marvel Comics quality pretty much went to hell in the ‘90s a few years after he was ousted. Once the good artists left for Image Comics, both the stories and artwork at Marvel were equally bad. Nowadays it doesn’t seem like the Marvel artists even try. Most of the art at Marvel now is plain, ugly, distorted, low-detail cartoon animation style drawing. DC, at least, seems to be retaining some decent artists these days that know how to draw exciting superheroes in the level of detail a printed page is supposed to have.


70 posted on 02/02/2014 10:49:26 PM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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