Most of the MCU offerings are way better than the comics they're based off. I remember checking out Marvel comics after infinity war came out and my biggest impression is that most of them really aren't worth reading.

Same for their TV shows. Loki and X-Men '97 are pretty good.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

This one feels a little unfair since you’re comparing decades of history across dozens of characters, with so many peaks and valleys.

I considered bringing up Batman The Animated Series myself, since I agree with many fans that it’s possibly the best encapsulation of that character overall. But I still feel like the very best Batman comics, like Dark Knight Returns, beat it out as self-contained stories. Also there are side characters like Catwoman who definitely have better representations in the comics, because there they’ve had entire series devoted to fleshing them out.

On the Marvel side, I’d take Brian Micheal Bendis’ run on Ultimate Spider-Man over any film, but that benefits from being a full decade worth of monthly tales with a single extremely strong creative voice. Hard for a two hour movie to beat that.