Comments on: On Twitter, “Marvel” = DC Comics

By: Zenaida

Zenaida — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:02:29 +0000

Interestingly enough, it appears that DC only bought “Marvel” – Searches for “Image Comics,” “Image,”

By: clint

clint — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:50:47 +0000

I’m pretty positive that marvel had a special, “tear off a cover of a flashpoint and send it in: marvel will send you a copy of fear itself”. So, is this really dirty pool? Its not harmful or mean spirited, just a ploy to get some face time.

By: Bry

Bry — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Well played. Whats happened here is Marvel failure, not DCs win. Back when they changed from Timely to Marvel they created characters with every version of Marvel in their name just to own the word re characters. So its amazing that when twitter came on they didn’t snapn that up… unless DC grabbed it when twitter came online and have been sitting on it. Even more amazing is that Marvel have the superior web marketing presence generally, so it really is a coup that they overlooked this.
Next step is to link ‘Marvel’ with the Shazam Character when (if) that gets back up and running.

By: Mightyt T

Mightyt T — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:51:33 +0000

DC copy characters from Marvel???? Now, that’s funny…..LMBO!!!!!

Hmmm…let’s see…. Vision/ Martian Manhunter…Supreme Squad/Justice League….Quicksilver/Flash…Mr. Fantastic/Elongated Man…I could go on, but I think you might get the idea….

By: Toby

Toby — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:50:09 +0000

After 40 years of reading comics, my observation is: the Nu52 reads like the Marvel Universe, so far.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:00:01 +0000

DC is soooo original, o wait they copied that idea from Battlefield when they bought the Mw3 website, just like they copy their charcters from Marvel

By: titandeoro

titandeoro — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:31:09 +0000

DC is always desperate,hence why they seem to have a crisis every 5 years. After about 4 months of sales on Nu 52 Marvel will take back the lionshare of the sales as always.We should all just call it what it really is. Marvel lite…since after all they are now making the public be afraid of superhero’s. Wow,big move from DC by copying the way the Marvel Universe acts. Only moves I see here being done is DC copying a concept by Marvel comics and then doing their best to try it over and over.

DC comics is the only company to have to reboot their continuity twice. How sad is that???

By: Dominic

Dominic — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:01:34 +0000

@Raul – totally agree. You hardly read a Marvel exec interview without sitting through a tirade of DC-bashing/our opinion of what DC’s doing etc. And hey, if it had been IDW or Image doing this to Marvel everyone would be cheering. Well DC is equally below Marvel – Marvel outsells them month after month – why shouldn’t the underdog try to get a competitive advantage.

By: Gwarshow

Gwarshow — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:55:07 +0000

Kinda funny, since I think all the DC books have been Mavel-ized with the new 52. Just an observation.

By: Cynthia Finnegan

Cynthia Finnegan — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:43:24 +0000

Just more childish crap from a bunch of childish twits. No one at either DC or Marvel has any concept of what true professionalism is anymore. To them, it’s now all lies and “screw you” one-upmanship games.

By: taz2499

taz2499 — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:30:51 +0000

wtf? marvel kicks the crap out of DC

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:16:50 +0000

It’s competitive bidding on keywords, no different than AdWords or proper contextual SEO, really. Further, the promoted tweet will die off if people aren’t retweeting it, clicking on it, following the avatar, etc. Since they’re contextually similar, advertisers will allow it–No different than saying “McDonalds is better than Burger King,” just simple competitive advertising. It’s relatively new too, so DC trying it out is fine and dandy, whether it helps them or hurts them will take awhile to notice.

By: Darth_Board

Darth_Board — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:06:48 +0000

I think that’s hilarious.

I tried it and, while Marvel Entertainment’s Twitter feed did come up (#3, with Stan Lee being #2), DC did indeed come up on top. A search for #marvel resulted in DC at #1 followed by Marvel at #2.

It is a pretty good response to all the “send in DC’s with ripped off covers for variants of Deadpool” stuff, I must say.

By: Tim Kretzer

Tim Kretzer — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:56:09 +0000

Hilarious…..

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:52:50 +0000

A punk move and sounds like desperation…DC is making news with this new 52…but by issue 3 of there new books…people will only be buying Batman and Green Lantern again and everything else in the top 25 will be Marvel.

It is way to early to call this a success…Jeez…the XFL had over 10 million people watching the first episode…by week 4 it had less than 600,000 people watching…

By: Vampire Duck

Vampire Duck — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:51:18 +0000

How do you “buy” a keyword on Twitter? I thought the only keyword were hashtagged word that anyone could use to associate a post with a topic. Can you actually buy a tag? Unless I’m mistaken, this sounds a bit confused.

By: Starsky_Hutch76

Starsky_Hutch76 — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:45:01 +0000

Considering that for the last few decades, DC hasn’t been allowed to put Captain Marvel’s name on DC books featuring the character, I don’t feel too sorry for them.

By: Llama

Llama — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:44:45 +0000

That’s how business works

By: Mikel Janín

Mikel Janín — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:42:52 +0000

Really? I’ve tryed that and nothing strange appears. You search Marvel and you find Marvel word in recent tweets. This looks to be a fake.

By: ATATComm

ATATComm — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:42:05 +0000

Somebody is desperate, looks like to me.

By: Raul Castro

Raul Castro — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:41:56 +0000

And @Michael E, DC is killing right now with the new 52. Looks to me like they have the big guns now.

By: Bill B.

Bill B. — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:41:43 +0000

Is it a joke or does it smack of desperation?

By: Raul Castro

Raul Castro — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:40:41 +0000

Marvel loves to have promotions where you send them DC comics with ripped off covers, and Quesada takes every opportunity he can to bash DC. They are the last ones that should complain about dirty tactics.

By: Michael E.

Michael E. — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:40:21 +0000

It won’t do DC any good. Marvel will just whip out the big publicity guns and bury DC.

By: StevenW

StevenW — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:40:12 +0000

I love this!! After all the childish behavior on Marvel’s part regarding anything DC over the last few years…they deserve any retaliation DC dishes out! GO DC!!

By: Sallyp

Sallyp — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:07:49 +0000

I don’t Twitter. I don’t even know HOW to Twitter. But this does crack me up.

Well played, DC. Well played.