Marvel x DC: The Reboot

[TheCorpulent1]

If H4H allowed effin Punisher and Ghostrider on to the team, then I'm gonna go ahead and vote for V4H.

Tattooed man don't get nearly enough love.

Dude, you should read the first, like, 6 issues of the recent Heroes for Hire series. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (of pretty much all of Marvel's cosmic comics lately) wrote it and basically had Misty Knight contacting various heroes as needed to help out with street-level cases with a comicy twist. Like instead of just a drug ring, they'd take down a drug ring dealing Atlantean underwater drugs. It was awesome. Then it got caught up in this plot with the Puppet Master and a Fear Itself crossover and started to suck, but for those first few issues, it was golden.

Anyway, I'm obviously voting for the Heroes for Hire.

 

[chiefchirpa]

Mooney, Danny Rand, Ghost Rider. Ok with Punisher. Meh with Elektra.

Against

Deathstroke who I only care?

Heroes defo.

 

[Docker2.0]

H4h

 

[greenrage36]

Ahhh..I'll go with the Heroes For Hire as well..mainly because of Moon Knight and Ghost Rider...

 

[CanaryFan]

Villians

 

[Energist]

Heroes for Hire.

 

[WolfCypher]

The Winners of Round 1187 are...Heroes for Hire (10-2)

Marvel Round - Round 1188
Red Hulk x White Venom
Red Hulk x Anti-Venom​

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I haven't read anything with Anti-Venom because Spider-Man is dead to me. Jeff Parker convinced me to actually buy Rulk's series for a while, though. So I'll go with Rulk.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Anti-Poochie Venom

 

[Docker2.0]

I'm going Typeface on this one.

 

[Anubis]

Rulk cuz symbiotes suck.

 

[Yodaman]

Anti-Venom

 

[WolfCypher]

Anti-Venom. I put off these rounds for the longest and very soon we're gonna lose AV. So I'm getting them out now.

 

[JoeyConQueso]

Rulk

 

[Specter313]

Anti-Venom

 

[chiefchirpa]

I'm getting okay with Thaddeus Ross, so him.

 

[The_Mighty_Thor]

Don't care much for Rulk but other than the very early Venom stories all Symbiote stories suck!

Red Hulk

 

[greenrage36]

Anti-V!

 

[runawayboulder]

Anti-Venom

 

[Energist]

Anti-Venom.

 

[WolfCypher]

The Winner of Round 1188 is...Anti-Venom (5-7)

DC Round - Round 1189
Comic Joker x DCAU Joker​

 

[JoeyConQueso]

DCAU would be my choice for most things Batman-related, especially Joker.

 

[runawayboulder]

Comic Joker - he does crazier s**t. The DCAU version isn't in any way inferior though....

 

[The_Mighty_Thor]

Comic Joker

 

[The Question]

In terms of characterization, the differences are minor but still noticeable. Because the comics are more lax when it comes to content restrictions, The Joker can get away with more ****, but because of this the temptation for writers is to just have him be randomly violent and constantly making wisecracks and not focusing on the strong characterization that makes him a compelling character, and thus he often comes off as a pretty generic manic psychopath. In the cartoon, they A) had to make him evil without showing the full extent of his evil, which in some ways makes him creepier, and B) Had to make him entertaining when they couldn't show his atrocities, so they focused on his wierdness and him actually being funny. The result is a very disturbing and nuanced villain who seems like a genuinely detatched and disturbed psychotic who would be the thesis paper of psychology majors the world over as opposed to simply a serial killer with a gimmick. So, in that sense, the DCAU Joker is the perfect Joker, as due to the restrictions and condensed nature of the show he was forced into having all of the elements that make the character great in the comics without any room for lazy writing that results in him being a much flatter and, strangely enough, much less believable character. I generally find that the less zany and detatched The Joker is the less he makes sense as a character. But that's just me.

Also, DCAU Joker has the benefit of simply having been in far less ****** stories while probably being in roughly the same number of good-to-great stories.

So, my vote is for the DCAU Joker.