So with Batman v Superman out of the way and Civil War
coming up, people can't help but compare and wonder why is DC so late trying to
catch up? What if I told you this is nothing different then what happened
before?
In the late 80's early 90's, Tim Burton's Batman was the
best comic book of all time and what did DC do to capitalize? They made
cartoons! Batman the animated series is still to this day considered one of the
best cartoons ever and for good reason, it simply rocks. Marvel witnessed the
success of Batman and started cranking out cartoon show after show with such
titles as Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Hulk, X-Men, and Spider- Man.
Starting to sound familiar?
Marvel wasn’t satisfied with just raining down shows on the
happy geeky masses, it decided to bounce around characters from show to show;
Spider- Man started to appear on X-Men, and vice versa. Now it was time for DC
to catch up, and catch up they did. They came out with Superman, Batman beyond,
and the Justice League amongst others. In my opinion, for that time, DC did it
better. Unlike Marvel they used a single character as the driving point to
bring the various groups together. It worked out beautifully for those shows
because they were in one shared universe. From Batman to Justice League with
all other tie in shows they gave us one giant story. Marvel at the time was
nowhere near this complexed, again characters had some brief appearance but
that was it.
Let's jump to 2005, Marvel learning from their cartoon
mistakes and the tragedy of signing away rights to certain characters decides
to do what DC did, but do it with movies. We all know the story from here,
Marvel creates a movie universe, make billions of dollars, branch off TV shows, and
create a giant movie universe. DC's problem now is far more than catching up,
but trying to keep up. First the Dark Knight movies are another universe. Man
of Steel wasn't a good starting ground, it's separate from its TV shows, and I
feel as if they're cramming in everything they possibly can into the next
movies.
Batman v Superman wasn't the bad movie that everyone claims
it to be. Did the movie have problems? Yes, but it was what we the people
wanted. DC playing keep up is nothing new to us. It’s just that now it's on a silver screen
scale. Will it be as good as Marvels? No, because Marvel wears the crown. They
had this plan years ago and they are a unit. What DC fans have to realize is
that they need to give DC
enough time. DC will eventually be back on top with
hopefully a good one character base story that they can build to a solid group
film. If not, they can just make another Batman can't go wrong with that.
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