[Iceman]

The comics industry in general is bloated. Less books would be more quality. I can't stand how many issues they insert into some of these events. Civil has over 100 if you want to get every story and most of those books aren't very good. I bought the TPB for Secret Invasion but those six issues aren't even a decent chunk of the story. What's worse is that while reading those books it is very clear that you are missing things. Most of the time I can't even read the main titles of an event and get more than a partial idea of what actually happened. And it's worse when "tie-in" titles have little more than the event banner connecting them to the story. They complain about piracy but then force it upon readers who want to fill in holes created without wasting time and money.