Infinite Crisis & 52 vs. House of M & Civil War

[Arach Knight]

It's been long run of crossovers and reality warps these past 1 and a half years, but DC and Marvel are bound and determined to do battle, not in the pages of their books, but on the racks of comic stores and news stands across the world. While each company is noted for their different characters and approaches, rarely does a time come like this, where two stories closely parallel one anoher. The list of similarites, although not many, are crucial devices for each companies current run of things.

Comon Factors:
-Reality gets warped by a powerful being, in a lasting fashion.
-Superhero related catastrophe leads to public mistrust of super beings.
-Numerous b-listers fall in combat against their own or villains.

From Wanda to Superboy altering reality as we know it. To the New Warriors failed attept at stopping mass murder, all the way to Diana snapping Maxwell Lords neck on camera...the state of the mainstream universes have taken a drastic change that leads into an even darker world than previously scribed in comic books. Though the events and the players are played out differently, the stage remains the same. Two different universes dealing with one kind of public and personal trauma. The real question at hand however, is which company has taken the better approach to this more relatable form of story telling, in which ficticious super beings deal wih real world problems?

 

[Hush]

The quality of IC and 52 just stomp Civil War and HoM.

 

[Kurosawa]

They all suck.

 

[batnkevlar]

Civil War was good and HoM was not... thus the win goes to DC...

 

[Harlekin]

DC quite easily. HoM was crap, Civil War was passable till #4 came along. Now it's crap too.

 

[XwolverineX]

IC doesn't need 52 to beat Hom and CW. Actually, it doesn't even need itself, Hom and CW beat themselves.

 

[Sloth7d]

So far I like CW over Infinite Crisis despite the extreme mischaracterations. IC is still great though.
But HOM sucked balls. And 52 is a great weekly comic.
Thus I'm voting for the great comics over the Great comic and the crappy comic.

 

[Batmanx]

Marvel can never get a story line rite , but DC can write very good stories...

WINNER goes to DC COMIC!!!!!

 

[Kitsune]

Cival War is pretty good and Orignal


IC was like reading Sword of Shannara... a decent enough read, but you couldn't help shake the feeling that you've read this before. Well at least DC was stealing from themselves and not Tolkien.

I'd say it's a tie. 52 is hit and miss with some good stories and some crappy ones. Cival War is dealing with realistic issues that should be touched upon. One thing that may tip things in Marvels favor, is that they aren't killing people off just to drive up the body count, or to replace them with younger or minority counterparts.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

IC and 52, civil war is very much passable, HOM just sucked all sorts of balls.

 

[Doc Destruction]

Oh please, this isn't even close.

 

[Mee]

Civil War and 52 aren't over so it's hard to judge. Plus, I didn't read House of M.

 

[Darthphere]

Wow, this is a fair poll, lol.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

^^^

 

[Darthphere]

Other than the quality being obviously better for the DC events, and the fact that this was put in the DC boards. The events dont match up that well. You have a line wide crossover with Civil War and Infinite Crisis, but 52 and House of M are pretty much wildcards.

 

[Eros]

so the poster posts this in the Dc comics thread? What did the orginal topic starter think the outcomeof his or her poll would be, considering they posted the topic in the Dc board lol? Its kind of like polling people in canada which country is better Canada or America.

 

[newmexneon]

CW sucks. HOM was worse. So DC easily gets this poll.

 

[gildea]

Given 52 is a completely different kettler of fish from the other 3 its an odd choice.

Regardless IC was badly written but reasonably well plotted and the art varied from great to unfinished. It also worked well as a launching platform in the aftermath.

HoM was well written but badly plotted though the art was good. The aftermath was handled badly, very badly.

CW is somewhere in the middle. The plotting is good, and writing not bad (though not amazing either). Its at least exciting which was HOM biggest problem. The art is great but really can't judge this till its over.


I'm giving the nod to marvel I think.

 

[Doc Destruction]

I'm stunned.

HoM was well written, but IC was badly written? I'd love to see the defense for that line.

 

[Prognosticator]

I seriously want to know "who the f***?" voted for HoM & CW?!?!??!??

I don't want to belittle them, I don't want to get upset and throw a fit or try to prove them wrong...I just want to know.

 

[Prognosticator]

Oh, I should have read the thread...Doc Destruction...there's one person off my christmas list.

 

[Spidey Rules 2]

For me, I really liked IC, as for 52, eh, it's okay.
I really like Civil War, but HOM could of been a lot better (my major complaint is that the HOM Spider-man story line did NOT make sense when read with the main HOM story.) How hard could it be to have the writers get in sync. with the main HOM story. Because of this mess up (and me paying good money for the HOM Spiderman story that does not connect to the main story) I have to give the win to DC.

 

[Doc Destruction]

Oh, I should have read the thread...Doc Destruction...there's one person off my christmas list.

OI! Not me! I would NEVER have voted for that crap. I wanted to hear HOW HoM was better written than IC.

 

[Darthphere]

Opinion?

 

[Doc Destruction]

Thanks, Darth. I meant something a little more specific.