Oooh. Yeah I get that with the last one. Objectively speaking Madonna is the superior artist considering how much she’s accomplished, how many albums, hit songs, etc.
But I stand steadily by 1 and 2. Superman only has so many classic stories and yet each issue of Alan Moore’s Supreme was like a classic in of itself. If it wasn’t for the inconsistent art, it would beat out Grant Morrison’s All-Star Superman. Although that too was excellent.
Mr. Pibb > Dr. Pepper
Alligator > “Greater Than”
Heresy!
House Party 3 made House Party 1 look like House Party 2.
Hendrix “All Along The Watchtower” > Dylan “All Along The Watchtower”. Anyone disagree? Anyone? Bueller?
Even Dylan agrees with you- when he does the song in concert, his band plays it in Hendrix’s style.
That Oreo comment is gonna confuse a lot of people.
I prefer Anne of Green Gables to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. (Although I wouldn’t call Anne of Green Gables crassly commercial.)
Eddie Murphy’s The Nutty Professor, IMHO, is better than Jerry Lewis’s.
Silver Age comics were better than Golden Age comics.
I had not thought of the musical angles. Cool!
Would I get lynched if I said that I prefer David Coverdale’s voice to Robert Plant’s? 
I thought of another one: I will readily concede that Kipling was a better writer than Burroughs, but I still prefer Tarzan to Mowgli.
Heresy! 
If you want to go there though, you’d have to start with Terry “Iron Lungs” Reid - he’s the guy Page originally wanted for Zep when he was forming them as The New Yardbirds. But the breaking-down Yardbirds were considered a big risk and Reid was “the best unsigned singer in the UK” at the time, so he said No (I have heard he had just been signed before Page asked, but am not sure). So Page had to look around and heard about Plant…
Kinda sucks to be Terry Reid at that point, but there ya go (I think he was approached to be the singer of Deep Purple, but said No to that, too - they went with Ian Gillan. Poor decisions, Terry…). Plant is the Imitation Terry Reid, but from the stuff I have heard, Reid is a solid vocalist and Plant is often “pitchy” so I won’t claim one is better…
Yeah, most people (if they even know what Hydrox are) think that they’re a rip-off on Oreos when it was the other way around.
On the other hand, Gaga writes her own stuff, which counts for a lot.
Still, I think Madonna > Lady Gaga, though I’m not a fan of either.
Family Guy is a funnier show than The Simpsons.
Top that, bitches.
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Flash Gordon had a much better artist than Buck Rogers (in the person of Alex Raymond), but Buck Rogers invented many of the tropes that Flash cashed in on. And not all the imitators were better. Who today remembers Brick Bradford, the other Buck Rogers imitator?
I haven’t read the Matt Helm books, but the Bond movies were infinitely better than the Matt Helm movies, or just about all of the imitators.
And I don’t think I’d call Alan Moore’s takes on other people’s works “crass commercialism”
And his Time Travelling Top. I do.
I suppose you are not panning Derek Flint, though ?
Dread Zeppelin’s Your time is Gonna Come > Led Zeppelin’s
Parks and Rec > The Office (US) > The Office (UK)
Helter Skelter better than (or at least more hard rock than) the The Who song it was supposed to imitate.
Indiana Jones, Star Wars (original trilogy) > The adventure serials of Lucas’ and Spielbergs’ childhoods
Post #11 is better than #9.
Cleveland Show > Family Guy.
I like George Michael’s rendition of Somebody to Love better than Freddie Mercury’s.