Interestingly enough, DC’s Justice League of America title recently made an overt comparison between it’s line up and the Greek/Roman Pantheon
Superman=Zeus
Wonder Woman=Hera
Flash=Hermes
Steel=Pluto (it IS Pluto ,right? the Greek conterpart of Vulcan?)
Orion=Ares
Aquaman=Posideon
Batman=(whoever the god of the afterlife is…I’m having a brain fart)
Huntress=Diana
not a perfect analogy, perhaps, but pretty close.
As far as I’ve seen, Marvel and DC have moved further away from each other with their later character creations, as well as overall story lines.
Thanks!! I knew as soon as I posted that that Pluto was god of the underworld…I was just getting ready to post a correction lol
I appreciate the help.
One further thought…could Spiderman be the equivilant of the trickster god, Loki? He is a prankster, and he seems to defeat his enemies with his cunning as much as with his powers.
Ever since the corporate takeover of Marvel, their comics have really sucked. The art has gone downhill in a serious way.
Other things have been happening…
A year or two ago, Antarctic Press, an independant comics publisher, came out with a suprise , breakaway hit: “Warrior Nun Areleia”, the story of a woman of God who opposes supernatural evil. It sold {and sells} well, & created several well-done spinoff titles at A.P.
Two months after the sales figures for “Warrior Nun” were announced, nuns started popping up on the covers of various Marvel titles. Often for strangely weak , or even virtually non-existant reasons in the story plotline.At least three examples over a two month time period. I can just hear a Madison Avenue type now…" NUNS! Nuns are HOT! HOT this year! Get some NUNS in those comics! Doesn’t make sense? WHO CARES? The fanboys won’t know the difference. They don’t know shit in the first place! They’ll buy anything we want to sell them!"
Later, Marvel went bankrupt.
Cause and effect, anyone???
I still haven’t forgiven them. I never will.
Marvel’s marketing ‘concepts’ destroyed most of the comics industry, and closed more than half of all comics specialty stores in America & Canada.
Marvel can go to Hell, & take its corporate goons/leader-types with it!!
About the only comics I follow at all anymore are Justice League and Preacher.
Preacher…now THERE’S a comic. Where else can ya have God, hillbillies, a kick ass preacher, an Irish vampire, an unstoppable Saint of Killers, enough religious controversy to make Fawell shit himself, and the best dialogue this side of the movie Clerks?
Not for kids, or the easily offended, Preacher hits on almost every taboo subject there is ,and reads like a Clint Eastwood Western.