52 More reasons to love DC

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The Rivals:
Chris VS Dafna

The Winner? The Fans

This morning the big DC vs Marvel (or Marvel vs DC) debate took place on UCLA radio from 9-10AM with nearly dozens (if that) of people listening, with even a few familiar faces calling in to add their own insight and opinions to the matter. I argued in favor of Detective Comics while the lovely Dafna Pleban attempted to make a case for Marvel; though she too favors DC, she played the Devil's advocate on this one. The only person who really favored Marvel was one of the hosts, Jeremy, who I *believe* I mentioned a few days earlier. He actually is a really nice guy, and pretty funny to boot. But anyway, the debate went swimmingly, tho not really a debate based on the different merits of the two rival companies, it eventually boiled us to talking about our favorite comics and comic movies. It's actually hard to choose between the 2, both have their good and their bad, i only have one or two less Marvel pulls than DC on my list at the Stash. it's not quite a Sofie's Choice decision... but if one had to be carried away by Nazis, it would be Marvel
My good friend and fellow Associated Comics And Pop Culture Webloggers Of Ventura County, CA And Outlying Environs, or ACAPCWOVCCAOE, member Ian Brill of Brill Building phoned it in all the way from San Francisco to add his 2 cents. Surprisingly he planned to call in before he knew I was going to be on the show. Coincidence? Sure. It was good hearing from the old boy, and I'm glad he didn't school me with his superior comic knowledge. And also renowned grumpy old man, and my former boss, Mike Sterling tuned his radio dial to pretencious college radio to hear me unintentionally slam Swamp Thing. Sorry Mike, I didn't mean to.

Hopefully, they'll send me an mp3 of the taping so if anyone out there has an hour to kill... they'll have that waiting for them.

Anyway, for even more reasons why DC rocks the socks off of Marvel... there are 52, count 'em, 52, new reasons that premiered today. And that would of course be the aptly titled DC comic, the 52, which describes how the characters in the DC Universe go from being in one giant cluster fuck to Aquaman having a sword. Should be a year of laughs, tears and noggin scratchin. The first ish was great, any series with Booster Gold as a main character is gonna be great... 'cept of course maybe his own series. But that can be overlooked and forgotten.

How can you hate that smile?: