[Greenskar]

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Well, it's true events are nothing new. I don't think anyone's under that impression.
Crisis on Infinite Earths, Secret Wars, Infinity Gauntlet (As you pointed out), and dozens of others.
(Though, I think Crisis and Secret Wars are the first ones that were on the same monumental playing field that we get annually now).

The main beef against them (If you've been through it all for a few decades as opposed to having just started really reading within the last few years) seems to be that they're just so frequent now, and both companies are cranking out one to two a year, each. One massive event now serves only as a catalyst for the next.

I can sympathize with this perspective. That is definitely happening. It's obviously business driven rather than story driven, and while it's unfortunate, it's the way the world works. As long as the stories are good and I can get the gist of it without needing to get everyone else's event tie in just to get the main story, than I'm happy. I was able to do that with Civil War and House of M, but not with the more recent ones.

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

It wasn't that long ago where each family of books had one big (for them) event a year that tied all the spinoffs together, while the Crisis level company wide events were still somewhat rare.
While those events had effects on the larger universe as a whole, you didn't have to read books you don't care about in order to keep following. If you were a Batman fan, you didn't have to read three different Superman titles in order to keep up with Knightfall. If you were X-Men, you didn't need to read Ironman, and Captain America in order to follow the Phallanx Covenent.
But now, we barily had any time to catch our breaths after Infinite Crisis, before we went into Final Crisis. And from that, immidiately into Blackest Night. Which immidiately began Brightest Day, with Flashpoint somewhere in the mix. And then we're rewarded for sitting through all of that so the entire universe can be restarted, almost from scratch.

What seems to me the primary complaint isn't that the big company wide events exist, or that they should stop altogether, just that they need to ramp down a bit.
I know I used to get really excited for them. I would like to feel that again, instead of thinking to myself "Another one?"
And the rate that Marvel cranks them out is one of two things that really keeps me from trying to get back into Marvel.

I absolutely agree with this, particularly because I was so excited to finally pick up Blackest Night HC after reading everything before it from Rebirth (in the GL and GL Corps) only to find out...everything was out of sequence

How the hell am I supposed to know the chronological order of this damn event that everyone talked about for a few years?! They have like 5 other HC/TPB's associated, but they all seem to jump back and forth. Like you have to read 25% of Blackest Night GL Corps, then jump to Blackest Night BL Corps just to fill in the blanks and then go to the main Blackest Night book to get to the next part of the story...UUUUUGGGGGGHHHH.

That has pissed me off to no end. Maybe it wasn't that difficult to follow for single issue collectors, but I only read the HC and TPB because I tend to like to read it all at once rather than incrementally. lol, ok end rant.