[Crazy Jetty]

Blackest Night
Civil War
Infinite Crisis
Secret Invasion
"New 52"
Dark Reign
Flash Point
House of M

There isn't a comic fan who isn't familier with the rate that Marvel *and* DC both have been pumping out huge company wide crossover events.
Lately it feels like each company puts out two a year. And the embers of the last are still scalding hot when they plunge straight into the next one.

I've been reading a lot of comments over the last few years that while they're enjoyable, it seems most people wish they would cool off a little.

Looking back just twenty years, things were extremely different. Huge company spanning crossover events were extremely rare. Secret Wars, Crisis on Infinite Earths, these were the exceptions and exceptional, and fondly remembered. And quite honestly reveared, because of their rarity. While the norm was big crossover events within a family of titles, instead of the entire company.
Examples:
X-Men- Phoenix Saga, X-Cutioner's Song, Phalanx Covenant, Age of Apocalypse
Batman- Knightfall, No Man's Land

I can't help but feel that AoA, Phalanx, and Phoenix would be entire marvel events, if they were being done now.

While I enjoy a big event... I admit I got entirely wrapped up in Blackest Night, I personally feel it's time to stop. Go back to when such events were very rare, and felt earned (Secret Invasion being a great example of a wonderful concept that loses almost all of it's impact due to being just another in a long chain of them), and letting the individual family titles have their own events.

But that's just my opinion.

What's yours?