DC, frankly was better in the 90s than it is now. Reboot Legion, Morrison's JLA, the creation of Vertigo, Starman - they were doing some consistently good stuff. Even a lot of the bread-and-butter titles like Superboy, Power of Shazam, Orion were reliably good at this time.
Now Marvel were at a historic creative low for a big chunk of the decade, and Image were Image, but the 90s also saw a big growth in Indy comics - after the B&W comics crash of the late eighties, titles like Bone, Strangers in Paradise and Beanworld built the Indy comics genre as it is today. [That was obviously a complete oversimplification.]