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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 9191702" data-attributes="member: 6689464">There is a grain of salt to go with this. Yes, early silver age Marvel was known for its groundedness and its relatability, but it didn't stay that way. I tell this as a middle of the pack millenial. Growing up in the nineties and the turn of the century, Marvel wasn't that relatable anymore. It was this edgy tremendist playground that dealt with grown up stuff without actual consequences, one where everything would eventually reset and characters remained ultimately static and unable to truly grow up. It felt theatrical if not farsical. The most relevant example for this was One More Day.At the time DC felt truly relatable. There was change, evolution, and real consequences. In the same timespan from Spiderman getting married out of the blue to him selling his marriage to the devil, everybody in DC kept changing and growing. Wally West went from teen sidekick, to adult Flash to parent. The same was true of a lot of younger heroes who made the universe feel alive. Even the bigger iconic established heroes had that sort of progression. Less of the edgy play about grownup issues and more actual grown up issues with consequences. Of course that went off the window a long time ago, but for fifteen-twenty plus years it was more relatable and felt more grounded despite the characters being more mythical and idealized.</blockquote>