I'm a much bigger Marvel fan than I am of DC, but I have to agree; I'm pretty excited about the DC minimates. The Marvel 'mates are starting to suck. I'm really tired of seeing multiple variants; how many Things do we need? How many Spideys? And for crying out loud, how many freakin' Wolverines do we need?
I can understand that those characters are all pretty popular, but we've got, what, six versions of Cyclops? Two of those are simply repaints of a third!
The only character I can really understand having tons of variants of is Iron Man, since he's worn tons of specialized armor over the years, but he's only got four versions. Booo.
However, the DC line has a similar issue with Batman (I'm not counting the specialty suits; we've got 6 or so regular Batmen).