Sunday, May 06, 2007

Sad but True...

It's no secret that I'm a big DC fan--the first comics I read were DC's, because at that time Marvel was only doing monster and sf books. Don't get me wrong--I was one of the original Marvel Maniacs, I was a founding member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society, and I overcame enormous financial and logistical hurdles to assemble a complete collection of Silver Age Marvel books in the late 1960s. Still, I've always been more of a DC guy...

Nevertheless, I have to admit that Marvel has found amazing success in theatres, while DC has for the most part struggled to overcome bad scripts, needless reinvention, and dreary filmmaking. So when I found this short on Youtube (it's one of four, actually), I found myself laughing and nodding...

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