SirSullymore said:
CritialGaming said:
SirSullymore said:
@ CritiacalGaming: IDK, don't you see how it's kind of an skewed generalization to make if you admittedly don't know much, if anything, about DC? (Brainiac is by no means an obscure character) I, personally, don't like the X-Men but I would never just be entirely dismissive of every X-men book ever (especially as I have barely read any of them). Feel free to not like DC, but I think it's unfair to be completely dismissive.
To be fair, I'm not dismissing DC for the sake of it. I've played DC games, seen DC movies, read a few DC books, and it is from that pool of experience that I have come to the conclusion that I think DC is mediocre at best. I don't like the characters, I don't find them interesting, relatable, or even vulnerable most of the time. It was pointed out above that DC has a reliance on God-Like levels of power with their characters and you simply can't have the same relatability in omnipotent characters that you can with much more down to Earth characters.
Let me ask you this. What real conflicts do characters like Superman and Batman deal with? What adversity do they suffer through? What challenges do they face that they cannot resolve with superpowers?
Here's the thing, I'm not really a big fan of Superman and Batman nor do I consider being relatable a necessary virtue to like a character (I suck, why would I want to read about somebody I relate too?) but I'll try my best. Haha
The Batman stories I enjoy the most are the ones that heavily involve his supporting cast (The Robins/Batgirls and the villains, most of whom I think are relatebale but this is about Batman) or putting Batman through the ringer. Like Arkham: A Serious House on a Serious Earth explores the lingering fear Bruce has that he is just as insane as the criminals he puts in the Asylum or The Court of the Owls storyline where he has to face the idea that Batman isn't the top tier entity of Gotham City and The Court only allows him to operate as long as it doesn't inconvenience them. Even Grant Morrison's run, which had him pretty Bat-Godish, had him deal with a son who he really didn't know how to connect with and his own inadequacy as a father figure.
Here's the thing about Superman, he's at his best when he's unrelatable. DC occasionally Superman as if they were ashamed of his power level (in which you get shitty storylines like "Grounded"), but in All Star Superman (my favorite Superman story), Morrison said "screw that" and just wrote a story about how unbelievably awesome Superman is and it?s great. There are some good relatable Superman stories however, like Max Landis's American Alien which was about different periods of Clarks life (starting when his powers first manifest leading up to his first encounter with a hostile threat to the Earth ) and how he deals with not know what he is and how someone so powerful should conduct themselves.
Here Comes Tomorrow: Well I'm sorry but if you know "fuck all" about the characters but still fell the need to condemn them as lame there's really not much I can do.
First off I'm not condemning them. If you are a DC fan, then fantastic. I'm not so I dunno what to tell you.
I would like to point out that Batman is such an uninteresting character, that you freely do admit that the best "batman" stories don't really involve Batman. When the main character of your series is the least interesting character in that series, then it isn't a good series. Batman's got a few really good villians and that's about it. And the sad thing is, DC knows this. That's why the Joker is in every Arkham game, even after he "dies" they can't get away from him because the Joker is the best character in that universe.
Look I'm sure there are pretty good story arcs for every DC character. DC wouldn't have been in business for so long without something that people really like.
But I personally just don't find the characters interesting. At best they are cool in small doses, which is why I go see every DC movie and will be going to see Wonder Woman when it comes out. Though as the movie universes go on, I do find it hilarious that DC is just doing what Marvel did, except they are terrible at it. The fact that the DC movies can't hold a candle to the Marvel ones, should show the dramatic difference in the likability of the characters.
I mean for fuck's sake, Guardians of the Galaxy has been a huge hit and it revolves around characters nobody has even fucking heard of. But why are they so instantly successful? Because the characters are likable, relatable. It is important.