You prefer Marvel over DC? Is there any particular reason for this?

I don’t think there’s a reason, per se. As I’ve said before, when I started reading comic books as a kid I did so through trade paperbacks or through random issues bought off of card tables on the sidewalk. And I read a decent bit of DC – I remember Knightfall quite well, Death of Superman less well – as well as Marvel.

But it was Marvel that I gravitated to: most specifically to Claremont’s run on X-Men and Captain America, although I did read a bit of Spiderman (although the line was in the throes of the Clone Saga at the time and I couldn’t make heads or tails of what’s going on) and some other stuff. 

As to why? I was a kid growing up in NYC, which meant that the Marvel Universe was happening right around the corner. So there was that instant feeling of recognition and familiarity that I just didn’t get from DC Comics, which has always preferred to keep its cities blandly abstract.