Genom åren har många serietecknare kommit och gått, men är det en person vars namn aldrig glöms bort så är det just Alex Ross. Han har skrivit och tecknat fantastiska serier som Kingdom Come, Marvels samt JLA: Liberty and Justice och har därmed erfarenhet av både Marvel och DC Comics. Nyligen medverkade han i en intervju med Entertainment Weekly där han förklarade varför de olika serieförlagens karaktärer är så olika varandra.
"There's certainly an argument to make for similarity of iconic status, but what's always separated the two for me is Marvel's material has always had a kinetic quality to it, particularly based on the design aesthetics of Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. DC characters are not defined by a singular artistic voice influencing all the rest, but that's what happened with Jack Kirby's leadership of the entire Marvel brand. Everything is affected by what he led the charge of. That 10 years where he created the majority of those characters in the '60s, that's what every artist and writer has built their process upon, including the movies today. There's a kinetic energy and a chaotic energy that embodies Marvel's stuff."
"DC is the foremost component of where the DNA of what makes a superhero came from. They did the very first superhero in Superman, and the first great embodiment of the dark superhero in Batman, and of course the first female superhero in Wonder Woman. All those key things are lined up by them, and they go in a nice descending ladder of importance with their Justice League. With Marvel it's clear that Spider-Man is not the same kind of hero as Superman; Cap has similarities but he has differences as well and has been used in very interesting ways that stop him from being a clone of any DC counterpart. The Marvel characters are all over the place in terms of what makes them unique, and there's a hip energy that's been instilled in them since their creation. Every other superhero company follows the mold of having their heroes follow those archetypes that DC embodies, but Marvel broke away."
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