It goes in cycles. I started getting interested in Marvel again around 1997 or so, when Marvel finished up that horrendous Heroes Reborn experiment and brought the Avengers, FF, etc. back into the main fold ... with Busiek/Perez aboard on Avengers, Waid and Garney on Cap, Lobdell/Alan Davis on FF (of course, Lobdell was bounced in favor of Claremont, who brought in just about every third-string X-Men villain and supporting character he still wanted to play with), etc. And it was good. For awhile.
That resurgence happened at about the same time as DC's resurgence, as well ... with Grant Morrison reviving the Justice League; the whole kill/maim/replace/armor-up trend over, etc. And that momentum petered about about the same time.
Both companies met the combination of the Dreaded Unending Crossover and the Cinematic-Storytelling Approach (the latter applying more to Marvel). Now DC's in an endless state of crisis and Marvel's in an endless state of malaise, and neither universe seems like one in which anyone would particularly want to live.
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It goes in cycles. I started getting interested in Marvel again around 1997 or so, when Marvel finished up that horrendous Heroes Reborn experiment and brought the Avengers, FF, etc. back into the main fold ... with Busiek/Perez aboard on Avengers, Waid and Garney on Cap, Lobdell/Alan Davis on FF (of course, Lobdell was bounced in favor of Claremont, who brought in just about every third-string X-Men villain and supporting character he still wanted to play with), etc. And it was good. For awhile.
That resurgence happened at about the same time as DC's resurgence, as well ... with Grant Morrison reviving the Justice League; the whole kill/maim/replace/armor-up trend over, etc. And that momentum petered about about the same time.
Both companies met the combination of the Dreaded Unending Crossover and the Cinematic-Storytelling Approach (the latter applying more to Marvel). Now DC's in an endless state of crisis and Marvel's in an endless state of malaise, and neither universe seems like one in which anyone would particularly want to live.