Overall,which of the "Big Two" comics publishers put out the better comics during that decade?
Or did Image just rule the '90s?

I had to vote for DC.

I love Marvel but 90's Marvel wasn't as enjoyable to me as 90's DC was.

I voted DC because whatever Marvel was doing at the time caused me to stop buying comics.
I don' even really remember what it was. Awful art, bad stories, characters I didn't recognize, etc.

DC for me as well. I remember the stunts still having a certain level of writing craft, plus you had legit classics like Kingdom Come and Starman.

Your reasoning is unassailable.

"Truth itself".

I didn't vote for anyone because I wasn't reading any comics then, but if I was, I would have used Simon's methodology of choosing the thing that I liked most

Hm. Unoriginal.

I voted Marvel even though I believe the people who say DC was better. I wasn't reading DC at the time so it's Marvel or bust.

It's your legal right to do so, which makes this a correct decision filled with rightness.

I am, however, reserving the right to prefer liking things on the basis of the fact that I liked them better than other things. Thanks.

I, too, had to vote DC, which produced, among other things:

---Waid's Flash
---Morrison's JLA
---Ostrander/Mandrake's Spectre
---the Superman triangle era, even if it unfortunately ended up trying to recreate the "death of Superman" buzz too often by the mid-90s
---my favorite Batman creative team in Doug Moench and Kelley Jones
---another favorite Batman creative team in Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle
---the Robin mini-series and solo title
---the Batman "No Man's Land" saga that spanned the better part of 2 years

And that's only if we count the regular DC universe stuff. Throw in other things like Kingdom Come, the Batman Adventures, the Superman Adventures, and the Vertigo line (if that counts) and DC wins it going away.

Plus, Sovereign Seven.

I mean, come on.

yeah but x-force

Marvel giving Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, and Avengers to the Image boys to produce was pretty dumb.
Some exciting visuals, and some atrocious, coupled with mediocre writing.

Now I'm inspired to list some of the 90s Marvel stuff that I did genuinely like.

--- Peter David's Hulk, particularly with Dale Keown, Gary Frank, Mike Deodato Jr., Adam Kubert, and George Perez
--- Uncanny X-Men 259-280 and adjectiveless X-Men 1-3
---- Peter David's Spider-Man 2099 (first ten issues only)
--- Peter David's X-Factor
--- probably some other Peter David stuff, I mean, let's be honest, who are we kidding
--- Alan Davis Excalibur
--- Alan Davis ClanDestine
--- Daredevil by DeMatteis, Kesel, Kelly, AND Smith/Quesada
--- Hama/Silvestri Wolverine (issues 31-57)
--- Claremont/Larroca Fantastic Four
--- Raab/Cassaday Union Jack

I voted Marvel.


'cause I'm a jerk.

I was sitting the bench in the 90s. Bought some EC reprint editions, a few Simpsons comics, and Midnight Sons #1 for some reason.

In other words: No DC, but one Marvel.

THE WINNER IS CLEAR

Since the original poll question is "Overall, which of the "Big Two" comics publishers put out the better comics during that decade?" , would it not behoove the respondents to actually have read a representative sampling of both companies' output before voting? To say the person "wasn't reading DC at the time so it's Marvel " would seem to me to be an uninformed vote at best, possibly a spear in the eye of integrity at second best, and I won't even go into how much a desecration of all we hold dear I really feel it to be. (And third best.)
Frankly, it sickens me.
Carry on with this travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

I would quibble with some of the details here, but your core point -- that Liefeld's 1996 Captain America relaunch was underrated --- seems indisputable.

'Nother vote for '90s Marvel, looks like.

You got to my main point with far less verbiage than I. Thank you.

Yeah, but on the other side you have the Clone Saga, which was terrible.