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Well the bulk of everything I hate about DC is the Silver Age. The bulk of everything I love about Marvel is the Silver Age. That tends to make things all right for me as when one company starts fan wanking the previous generations characters and ideas, the other does as well and I switch.

This, of course, is a generality as nothing could make me like Superman.

There are always gems. I think one of the reasons that I liked the original JSA so much in the 70s was that their tone was more like Marvel at the time. While DC was still pumping stories that featured super-heroes who never had problems, the original JSA we're getting old, dealing with life's problems -- or, at least that's the perspective that seven-year-old Auto had.

That's why when someone asks me, who's my favorite GL or Flash, etc., I answer Alan Scott and Jay Garrick, respectively. It's not that I don't like Hal or Barry -- I do -- I just don't like the stories that they were in at the time, and I'll always like their namesakes better because, in comparison to Marvel heroes at the time, their stories were weak.

Now, that isn't to say that everything that DC put out during the Silver Age was crap or that everything that Marvel did was golden, it wasn't. But overall, the tone -- again with that word -- was what brought me in.

I could go on, but honestly college football is on and I'm enjoying a nice combination of barley and hops ...

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