On the other side of the fence

I've been talking about mostly DC stuff for the past couple of posts, so let me briefly tell you about Marvel's side of things.

The similarities between the two major superhero universes actually belies a considerable difference. In humble opinion, while DC are the best people for writing 'home' or earth based stories, Marvel (Abnett, Lanning and Yost) blow DC out of the water when it comes to intergalactic stuff. As much as i like GL, Marvel's Nova, Annihilation, Guardians of the Galaxy and War of Kings are just..more interesting.

Geoff Johns and Dan Abnett are the scions of writing in these two universes at the moment. Of course you still have Carey, Millar and Bendis wandering around...but it seems those two guys have it locked up.

And Marvel have Rocket Raccoon

If you're wanting to jump on the cosmic marvel band wagon of latter day saints; i'd advise reading the following:

* Nova

* The Annihilation Crossover event

* War of Kings crossover event

* Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar empire

* Emperor Vulcan

* Infinity Gems saga

* Guardians of the Galaxy

* did i mention Nova?

* Darkhawk

not in that order

The current arc back on earth in ye olde 616 main marvel universe is Dark Reign.

After the events of the 'secret' skrull invasion last year, Norman Osbourne (ie The Green Goblin) has become the CIC of Shield (now known as Hammer) and all the bad guys are now the main title teams (ie Dark Avengers, Dark Xmen, Dark Howard the Duck?)

Whats the point? God only knows. After the mess they made with One More Day (retconning the last 15years of Spiderman and getting rid of his marriage) and the almost brilliance of Civil War (but being too scared to make it stick beyond the Registration Act...When i get my copy ill talk more about this) Marvel have lost the plot on earth.

Stick with the Space stuff...with Lilandra dead and Kannath the new Majestor, the Inhumans ruling the Kree and Gabriel Summers and Black Bolt having fisticuffs (a proper word it seems) all bets are off.