DC vs Marvel on Drama

You're right.

Most of the perceived differences between Marvel and DC are outdated.

In the early 60's Marvel introducing more human characteristics to superheroes was a major innovation, making the characters develop over a long amount of time.

Over time writers at DC started to adopt this as well. Marvel had an effect on the entire industry, not just in its own comics. CoIE was an attempt to alter their ENTIRE line to reflect changes in the industry, instead of only some titles.

Teen Titans was actually arguably the first industry example of what you call "teen wangst", and this also went on in X-Men and LoSH and was what made those series so hugely successful in the early 80's.

Outside of certain titles, there hasn't really been anything like teen drama. You have your Runaways and other titles meant on appealing to the YA audience but overall the "soap opera" direction is indistinguishable between Marvel and DC; the two share most of their writers, after all.

Look at the similarities between Identity Crisis and Avengers Disassembled for the perfect example.

These are industry trends, not specific to any one company.

>>93230979
Identity crisis isn't personality drama for the sake of personality drama though, it explores an issue with superhero identities and shows a rather extreme consequence.
Compare that to
>we're breaking up because you respect me and I just want random dick
or cheating all around that happens in marvel.

>>93231150
That's just a difference in the quality of the writers. not the directions of the companies.

>>93231244
Eh, eh. Depends on where you draw the line. If you put everything under the label
>personal stories
then yes. But there's a difference between personal stories in general and cheating drama.

Any other opinions?

>>93230324
I feel like Marvel pulls off the secret identity and human aspects of characters better than DC.