Atlantis Attacks.

[Reviresco]

I loved Atlantis Attacks, and Evolutionary War too. Reread them many times. I have been thinking about them recently and thought that Marvel should revisit this format for their events. I know they wouldn't be able to sell as many tie-ins, but there would be less complaints from people, and I am sure sales would remain. Have one Annual a week across three or even four months, you'd get 12-16 oversized issues, all part of the main story, and not derailing the main series. Have them written by the same writer as the regular series, or have one popular writer write all the issues... whatever Marvel thinks would work best. They could even run multiple events a year (which they do anyway) by varying the length of the story and then starting a new one as soon as the old one is done. 52 weeks a year, Marvel probably has approximately that many on-going titles... an Annual a week.

There's the problem, as far as Marvel is concerned: less sales / tie-ins. It would be great, however, if they would stop derailing books for events and went back to something like this, IMO.

By the way, there were a few Atlantis Attacks stories outside the Annuals. One was a short Hulk story in Marvel Comics Presents where the Hulk fights a crazy whale at a thinly-veiled Sea World parody. Another was in an issue of West Coast Avengers which really served as a lead-in to that book's annual. (I think it was literally a panel.) Finally, there was the crazy oversized What If...? #25 where Namor dies, the Punisher and Moon Knight are turned into snakes, and Thor fails in his quest to recruit the Demogorge, so set basically wins. A lot of What If...? comics are dark, but man, that one was dark.

I didn't know that. I vaguely remember a What If? issue, but not what happened in the book.

I have the omnibus around here somewhere, but can't find it. I want to see exactly what it contains.

[Tazpocalapse]

The "Von Strucker Gambit". I have those somewhere.

Also how about the one that ran in the Spider Man Annuals (Amazing Spider Man, Web of Spider Man, and Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider Man) called the "Vibranium Vendetta" that had Spidey teaming up with Iron Man and the Black Panther to take on Kingpin, the Ghost, and Ultron.

Whoa that Vibranium vendetta sounds cool i'm going to have to see if i can find that one.

[Nomads1]

By the way, there were a few Atlantis Attacks stories outside the Annuals. One was a short Hulk story in Marvel Comics Presents where the Hulk fights a crazy whale at a thinly-veiled Sea World parody. Another was in an issue of West Coast Avengers which really served as a lead-in to that book's annual. (I think it was literally a panel.) Finally, there was the crazy oversized What If...? #25 where Namor dies, the Punisher and Moon Knight are turned into snakes, and Thor fails in his quest to recruit the Demogorge, so set basically wins. A lot of What If...? comics are dark, but man, that one was dark.

I always thought that this What If should have had a follow through or something in an Exiles title or something akin, after all, in the end, the Sons of Seth go on to cross the Omniverse, conquering and destrying realities in their god-like wake.

Peace