I Am Tired Of The Next Big Event!!

[TheIntellectual]

I don't mind lots of crossovers and "events". The difference is that lately we've gotten lots of crossovers that hits the entire universes. Instead of an "X-men" or "Superman" crossover we're getting a much larger amount of "hits" per crossover. Civil War has affected everything in the marvel stable outside of X-men, and Infinite Crisis made nearly everything in the DCU relevant.

My problem with these crossovers is that they lack true endings as of late. House of M and Civil War didn't really end as much as they ran out of pages.

Atleast Infinite Crisis had an ending, albeit one that erased most of DC's 1990s events from the landscape.

 

[Dread]

My problem with these crossovers is that they lack true endings as of late. House of M and Civil War didn't really end as much as they ran out of pages.

Atleast Infinite Crisis had an ending, albeit one that erased most of DC's 1990s events from the landscape.

Another good point. Although to be fair, after IC came 52 and the loosely tagged OYL, and now there is the fear that 52 will just lead into COUNTDOWN/WW3 and not really have an ending unto itself.

But you are on the ball about HOM and CW. In the effort to keep the fans buys, there seems to have been a sense that the obligation to offer a satisfactory ending has been lost. Because an ending means...an ending. As in you can take a breath and not buy. Of course, the ending to CW would have been stronger had the beginning and middle been handled with more finesse and precision, but whatever.

In a way this reminds me of ASM, for better or worse, from PRELUDE to BACK IN BLACK, it has had a neverending story for a good 10 issues now with no THE END in sight for another 5 at least. Count in THE OTHER (which led into PRELUDE), and the book has been in perpetual crossover for about 2 years now. There needs to be a finale and breath needs to be gathered.

For all that Marvel and DC are proud of their figures, they may fear that if they gave too definate an ending, the spike will end. After all, steroids only last a short while on one shot. You need to keep pumping to maintain, and "events" are steroids for sales. Explosive in the short term, damaging in the long term, unless there are a train of them.

And yes, the amount of chapters is reaching into ridiculousness. Sure, we can cherrypick which ones to buy, but the force a lot of smaller Marvel books under the rug. HOM at least could be avoided if you didn't care for it in many books.

Of course, THE INITIATIVE is not exactly an event but more like "CIVIL WAR's epilogue that goes on and on and on and on and on and on..." WWH is the true next event, which I am skipping.

 

[Memphis Slim]

I am tired of the big event books too. But looking back as far as I can think, hasn't there always been big event type stories?

Clone Saga, Identity Crisis, There was Onslaught, Age of Apocalypse, Infinity War, Secret War, and Marvel versus DC, Death of Superman, Bane and Batman, Blue Electric Superman, Crisis on Infinite Earths, etc.

Clone Saga, Infinity War, Electric Supes Bane were all huge. but I don't know if they changed the whole Universe........ That's why I say that we can have significant storylines without all the upheaval and carnage!

Are the past Big EVENT books not as big as the current ones?
Is it just that these current BIG EVENT books are just one right after the other? And that they are meant to forever change the comic universe? Or do the past big event books just seem less massive since they are past?
Was there ever a time when Marvel or DC didn't have a big event happen in a comic? Or is it just me.

It all started wit Crisis on Infinite Earths. DC started this crap.

 

[hippy fascist]

It all started wit Crisis on Infinite Earths. DC started this crap.

no actually, they didn't

secret wars was the first "event", published in 84

crisis was 85

 

[Savage]

I'm okay with them as long as there's actual space between them so they are actually special and a big deal. At this point it's just another day in the life of a superhero. I mean really. Why would anyone want to become a superhero at this pont? Half your time is spent at numerous funerals and 25% is counseling various friends and family members who've been ****ed over by your lifestyle choice. A lot of these books are just not fun anymore...This statement may not be popular but thank god for Ultimate.

I like these events when they are well written, of course, but some events make you feel like you have no choice but to read them. You're reading one of your regular titles and boom, you have no idea why this person is appearing or what the hell they're talking about? I'm reading a Batman comic and out of nowhere there's an Omac, he defeats it, and that's that.

 

[Artistsean]

Yes exactly, I think that is what has bugged me about the differences about past big event books and current big event books. The Lack of an Ending and the lack of time to recover in between.
One big event, like House of M or Identity Crisis, seem to flow right into the next big event with no down time and no real ending.

Just out of curiosity,
Does anyone know what the sales figures for DC and/or Marvel were during the past BIG EVENT books (like Secret War or Crisis on Infinate Earths) versus the sales figures without crossovers?
How much do they really boost sales?

And for that matter, what are the current sales of books like House of M or 52 compared to past Big Event books?

Do the lack of endings actually make sales better or the same or what?

 

[SouLeSS]

50-80 tie-ins? That was the original count, yes. With all of the delays and extra stuff, we've easily broken a 100.

127, according to some guy that sold every single tiein/leadin to Civil War on ebay for like 500$. His auction stated "If it had Civil War anywhere on the title, it's on here".

Had all the aftermath stuff, the core titles, the road to's. But this was also the week that #7 came out, and theres been quite a few more since then.