How many events is too many events?

[JohnLynch]

So after a 2 year hiatus I'm looking to start reading comics again. I live a 15 minute bus ride from the local comic book store. However I'm looking at the solicits for October/November and everything seems to be event driven at the moment. We've got:

• AXIS happening
• Spider-Verse
• Countdown to... errr.. I mean Time Runs Out

In November we've also got some new series starting such as Captain America & the Mighty Avengers, but they're tie-ins to the events (here's hoping they relaunch in January with a new jumping on board point).

At this stage I'm hoping some of the new series relaunch in January or at least offer a new jumping on point so I can check them out. As for October, DC's books are much more accessible at this point as their events seem to be restricted to their weekly books. I've found 1 Marvel book that sounds interesting and 3 DC books that are at the start of a new arc and so a new jumping on point.

Have other people found things a bit event heavy of late? Are people liking the number of events? Are they finding them to be a barrier to checking out new comics?

[Doc Omega]

There could never be too many quality runs.... if that ever happens

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I'm long since burned out on so-called "events" and stopped bothering with them years ago. Back when I paid attention to that sort of thing, it used to be "events" happened rather infrequently, say like once a year or so, then the frequency began shrinking and shrinking, practically to the point where they're following on the heels of each other today. I understand that "events" are the company's bread and butter, attracting the most attention, not to mention the dollars of fans, especially that segment I call "Short Attention Span Fanboys" that never gets enough of them, but what I dislike most about it all is the relentless hype (THE EVENT THAT WILL CHANGE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE FOREVER! At least until the next event comes along that will change the Marvel Universe forever, and so on and so on and so on) that makes me shake my head from how ridiculous it is. I know I'm in the minority here and will probably get slammed by other posters for my comments, but yeah, I'm of the opinion that there's just too many "events" today, and, sadly, it's not about to change, if anything, it's bound to get worse.

[Diamond]

As for October, DC's books are much more accessible at this point as their events seem to be restricted to their weekly books. I've found 1 Marvel book that sounds interesting and 3 DC books that are at the start of a new arc and so a new jumping on point.

DC is not that accesible if you count crossovers, which are even worse tan events.

[fmvgamer]

This has been going on since like what ? House of M ? Event after event after event. This is marvel's strategy.

[SXVA]

Depends if it's great quality or not... it's the average to below average stuff that there's way too much of.

I'll take an infinite amount of Infinity's, but there's way too much of Original Sin, Avengers vs X-Men, and Age of Ultrons, etc.

Side note: I wish the next Avengers movie wasn't Age of Ultron, i know Whedon will make it great but still... Whedon should be on some Hickman stuff not pulling out a miracle and making AoU interesting.

[JohnLynch]

This has been going on since like what ? House of M ? Event after event after event. This is marvel's strategy.

Has it ever been this bad though? We've had:
2004: Avengers Disassembled
2005: House of M
2006: Annihilation, Civil War
2007: World War Hulk, Annihilation: Conquest, Messiah Complex
2008: Secret Invasion
2009: War of Kings, Messiah War, Utopia, Necrosha, Fall of the Hulks
2010: Siege, Realm of Kings, Second Coming, Thanos Imperative, World War Hulks, Curse of the Mutants, Shadowland, Chaos War
2011: Age of X, Fear Itself, Schism, Spider-Island
2012: Dying Wish, Avengers vs X-Men
2013: Age of Ultron, Infinity, Battle of the Atom
2014: Trial of Jean Grey, Goblin Nation, Revolutionary War, Original Sin, Death of Wolverine, Axis, Spider-Verse, Time Runs Out

So besides 2010 this is 2 to 4 times the number of events that we normally get.

[fmvgamer]

The movie age of ultron is not based on the marvel event.

[SXVA]

The movie age of ultron is not based on the marvel event.

It isn't? The initial premise seemed somewhat similar to the event in combination with the name, Ultron deciding to eradicate Humans, etc... That's great if so, however.

[dzub]

Has it ever been this bad though? We've had:
2004: Avengers Disassembled
2005: House of M
2006: Annihilation, Civil War
2007: World War Hulk, Annihilation: Conquest, Messiah Complex
2008: Secret Invasion
2009: War of Kings, Messiah War, Utopia, Necrosha, Fall of the Hulks
2010: Siege, Realm of Kings, Second Coming, Thanos Imperative, World War Hulks, Curse of the Mutants, Shadowland, Chaos War
2011: Age of X, Fear Itself, Schism, Spider-Island
2012: Dying Wish, Avengers vs X-Men
2013: Age of Ultron, Infinity, Battle of the Atom
2014: Trial of Jean Grey, Goblin Nation, Revolutionary War, Original Sin, Death of Wolverine, Axis, Spider-Verse, Time Runs Out

So besides 2010 this is 2 to 4 times the number of events that we normally get.

a return to 2006 please..only 2 events that year yet they are probably the 2 most game changing events in recent marvel history.

[exile001]

Side note: I wish the next Avengers movie wasn't Age of Ultron, i know Whedon will make it great but still... Whedon should be on some Hickman stuff not pulling out a miracle and making AoU interesting.

Fear not, he's only using the same title. Otherwise they are unrelated.

It isn't? The initial premise seemed somewhat similar to the event in combination with the name, Ultron deciding to eradicate Humans, etc... That's great if so, however.

To be fair, that's what Ultron always does. It's why he's such a badass villain.

[SXVA]

Fear not, he's only using the same title. Otherwise they are unrelated.



To be fair, that's what Ultron always does. It's why he's such a badass villain.

Haha. Good point.

Admittedly i didn't look that deep into it, the initial plot i read + the title i just assumed it was the basis... but i'm glad to be wrong on that.

[Trident]

Well in away there can only be too many events when those events stop making money/profit margins to make the company reconsider doing events. Until that happens they probably will keep on rolling out.

So to answer the question.....there hasn't been to many yet.

[Viteh]

Has it ever been this bad though? We've had:
2004: Avengers Disassembled
2005: House of M
2006: Annihilation, Civil War
2007: World War Hulk, Annihilation: Conquest, Messiah Complex
2008: Secret Invasion
2009: War of Kings, Messiah War, Utopia, Necrosha, Fall of the Hulks
2010: Siege, Realm of Kings, Second Coming, Thanos Imperative, World War Hulks, Curse of the Mutants, Shadowland, Chaos War
2011: Age of X, Fear Itself, Schism, Spider-Island
2012: Dying Wish, Avengers vs X-Men
2013: Age of Ultron, Infinity, Battle of the Atom
2014: Trial of Jean Grey, Goblin Nation, Revolutionary War, Original Sin, Death of Wolverine, Axis, Spider-Verse, Time Runs Out

So besides 2010 this is 2 to 4 times the number of events that we normally get.

If we only count the really big ones (with tons of tie-ins), it only started increasing last year:

2005: House of M
2006: Civil War
2007: World War Hulk
2008: Secret Invasion
2009: None
2010: Siege
2011: Fear Itself
2012: AvX
2013: Age of Ultron, Infinity
2014: Original Sin, Sixis

Expect more next year.

[Zero Hunter]

Yearly events are too much. Maybe every other year if they have to do them. Personally I have not bought a big event series since Secret Invasion and don't plan on buying any more. That crap series was what finally broke me on events when they litterly filled space for 5 issues in the middle of it. IT was absolute and complete filler with no real bearing on the main story and they could have crammed those 5 issues into 1 and it would not have effected the story one bit.