I used to say that there were no functional differences between the two big comics firms. I mean, really, enough of the same writers and artists work at both places . . . basically the same guys write DC and Marvel comics. And while admitting slight differences between editorial decisions, I used to find the same themes and such repeated by each of the big companies. An idea at Marvel would make an appearance in a modestly different form over at DC, and vice-versa. I was largely well pleased with this state of affairs.

I can't say that, anymore. Marvel just lost me when Cyclops became master of assassins and Matt Murdock slept around while his wife was in an insane asylum because of his own self-destructive lifestyle. Or was it Tony Stark doing his Josef Mengele number? I forget. But I concluded that they must have 24 on continuous loop over at Marvel and I stopped watching that, too, when the creepy factor got too high. ;)