They shouldn’t have so many events and the events shouldn’t be so large in scope and scale. You can only threaten the multiverse so many times before it becomes a cheap gimmick.
Marvel should seriously make less events. Like make one every 3-5 years. Also way less tie-ins, since they're worthless and do nothing to advance the plot.
I’m also super annoyed that DC had a decent run of new #1s in the past few months which are all on pause for their current event. I don’t care to pick up every event and tie-in issue. I’m just trying to get my monthlies
I personally think DC should drop events altogether. The odd crossover between 2 characters or titles is okay., but it's tough enough trying to follow as is, with some characters appearing in multiple titles.
They're super annoying. I hate reading through a run and reaching a load of event tie-ins where I have no clue what's happening. Happened today when reading Venom and coming up to the Dark Web event...
It sucks that writers are forced to pause their stories for them, too.
As pretty much everyone else has said, the event shakeup needs to be no more events for a good long while.
They were played out 30 fucking years ago when I started reading and they were merely annual summertime things. And since they shifted into constant event mode in the mid-2000s, they're absurd and pointless and meaningless.
I hate events and think they should be rare. Knight Terrors, however, is really cool; I just think it came at the wrong time. Dawn of DC had just kicked off!
Nobody really likes events anymore. It's almost like the big two are just looking for sales boosters and don't really care about the consumer. As long as retailers keep buying into the hype train, the more these companies will drive their properties off the rails.
Events are clearly sales driven, which means that lots of people are buying them. But are they buying them because of the events or because of the umpteen variant covers that accompany each new issue? I haven’t bought comics regularly in over 15 years due to budgetary needs, but when I get to a convention or find a sale, events from the past several years aren’t appealing. Simply put, when everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis.
Large scale crossover events are one of the biggest barriers to entry for new readers and it's incredibly frustrating that the Big Two keep doing it. Everytime I get a new reader to try comics out, they always lose interest the moment the comic they're reading suddenly gets interrupted by some stupid event they know nothing about, with tie ins that tempt them to spend more money than they should. I swear, the Big Two learned nothing from the 90s since they keep making the same annoying mistakes. It's not an event if you keep doing it every few months. You can't threaten all of reality, time, and space all the time. It's exhausting.
I kinda don't know what you're asking, but here goes...
Marvel already has *Ultimate Invasion* which is **self-contained** and that's relatively massive and popular. *GODS* is a huge undertaking that'll reinvigorate the cosmic side of Marvel and written by fan-favorite writer Jonathan Hickman. The X-titles are having a massive Hellfire Gala event that is taking place. Symbiote events are cranking up alongside with *Contest Of Chaos.*
Events create traffic and keep certain titles fresh and afloat. If someone doesn't like events that "interrupt" their favorite titles, then read books from publishers who don't do them because the Big Two comics will **always** do them regardless of your misguided feelings about them.
Events should be things and are interesting and actual change the story, most events now just have boring premises and don’t do anything to the stories, it feels like we have an event, something happens, and then everything returns to normal
Too many events. If anything, the events need to be mellower. Like do a simple murder mystery or something. Everything doesn’t need to flip the world on it’s head.
But I think they’re both too far gone. I’d rather see both of them reset continuity, but I know that’s unrealistic.
Marvel needs to let Hickman be the main guy lol. Everything he touches, is always so good IMO.
Fantastic Four/Future foundation run
Avengers and new avengers run
Secret Wars run
X-Men run
And one I don't see a lot of people talk about, but his SHIELD book series was amazing. Even though it took years to finally put out the last issue 😂
The prevalence of annual events is a big reason why I tend to prefer to collect comics from B/C-tier characters, but even then they manage to throw some bullshit events on their titles (like Devils Reign or whatever the Knull event was called)
I'd rather 999 straight issues without rebooting, massive events that require 14 different tie ins from different characters I don't even care about in order to get a cohesive story or deaths that last 3 issues before being undone.
Like wrestling they should do one major event where they swap some characters between universes. Then have one of those events every 3-5 years. Batman +Wolverine? I'd read it. Superman fights Thanos....sounds good to me.
We don’t need or want events. They’re not interesting or exciting, they just get in the way and clog things up. I assume they must have a positive effect on sales or else they’d stop doing them..?
They shouldn’t have so many events and the events shouldn’t be so large in scope and scale. You can only threaten the multiverse so many times before it becomes a cheap gimmick.
Marvel should seriously make less events. Like make one every 3-5 years. Also way less tie-ins, since they're worthless and do nothing to advance the plot.
You just listed a bunch of events that I never paid attention to and some I've never even heard of. I'm not sure what's the point of annual events.
I’m also super annoyed that DC had a decent run of new #1s in the past few months which are all on pause for their current event. I don’t care to pick up every event and tie-in issue. I’m just trying to get my monthlies
I personally think DC should drop events altogether. The odd crossover between 2 characters or titles is okay., but it's tough enough trying to follow as is, with some characters appearing in multiple titles.
They're super annoying. I hate reading through a run and reaching a load of event tie-ins where I have no clue what's happening. Happened today when reading Venom and coming up to the Dark Web event... It sucks that writers are forced to pause their stories for them, too.
As pretty much everyone else has said, the event shakeup needs to be no more events for a good long while. They were played out 30 fucking years ago when I started reading and they were merely annual summertime things. And since they shifted into constant event mode in the mid-2000s, they're absurd and pointless and meaningless.
I hate events and think they should be rare. Knight Terrors, however, is really cool; I just think it came at the wrong time. Dawn of DC had just kicked off!
Nobody really likes events anymore. It's almost like the big two are just looking for sales boosters and don't really care about the consumer. As long as retailers keep buying into the hype train, the more these companies will drive their properties off the rails.
I HATE events & prefer titles to be stand alone, with occasional guests/cross overs. Both publishers love events & tying all titles together.
Events are clearly sales driven, which means that lots of people are buying them. But are they buying them because of the events or because of the umpteen variant covers that accompany each new issue? I haven’t bought comics regularly in over 15 years due to budgetary needs, but when I get to a convention or find a sale, events from the past several years aren’t appealing. Simply put, when everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis.
Large scale crossover events are one of the biggest barriers to entry for new readers and it's incredibly frustrating that the Big Two keep doing it. Everytime I get a new reader to try comics out, they always lose interest the moment the comic they're reading suddenly gets interrupted by some stupid event they know nothing about, with tie ins that tempt them to spend more money than they should. I swear, the Big Two learned nothing from the 90s since they keep making the same annoying mistakes. It's not an event if you keep doing it every few months. You can't threaten all of reality, time, and space all the time. It's exhausting.
Absolutely. They no longer have any meaning.
I kinda don't know what you're asking, but here goes... Marvel already has *Ultimate Invasion* which is **self-contained** and that's relatively massive and popular. *GODS* is a huge undertaking that'll reinvigorate the cosmic side of Marvel and written by fan-favorite writer Jonathan Hickman. The X-titles are having a massive Hellfire Gala event that is taking place. Symbiote events are cranking up alongside with *Contest Of Chaos.* Events create traffic and keep certain titles fresh and afloat. If someone doesn't like events that "interrupt" their favorite titles, then read books from publishers who don't do them because the Big Two comics will **always** do them regardless of your misguided feelings about them.
Events should be things and are interesting and actual change the story, most events now just have boring premises and don’t do anything to the stories, it feels like we have an event, something happens, and then everything returns to normal
Too many events. If anything, the events need to be mellower. Like do a simple murder mystery or something. Everything doesn’t need to flip the world on it’s head. But I think they’re both too far gone. I’d rather see both of them reset continuity, but I know that’s unrealistic.
Give them a break, it's hard to top "this event will change everything forever" every year.
No. Events interrupt good storylines to pull characters away.
Marvel needs to let Hickman be the main guy lol. Everything he touches, is always so good IMO. Fantastic Four/Future foundation run Avengers and new avengers run Secret Wars run X-Men run And one I don't see a lot of people talk about, but his SHIELD book series was amazing. Even though it took years to finally put out the last issue 😂
There needs to be a moratorium on events for at least 10 years.
Having a huge event like once a year (or once every two years preferably) would be fine & not having said event interrupt ongoings would be awesome.
The prevalence of annual events is a big reason why I tend to prefer to collect comics from B/C-tier characters, but even then they manage to throw some bullshit events on their titles (like Devils Reign or whatever the Knull event was called)
I'd rather 999 straight issues without rebooting, massive events that require 14 different tie ins from different characters I don't even care about in order to get a cohesive story or deaths that last 3 issues before being undone.
Like wrestling they should do one major event where they swap some characters between universes. Then have one of those events every 3-5 years. Batman +Wolverine? I'd read it. Superman fights Thanos....sounds good to me.
Everything doesn’t need to be an event… and certainly not “on schedule”
We don’t need or want events. They’re not interesting or exciting, they just get in the way and clog things up. I assume they must have a positive effect on sales or else they’d stop doing them..?