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Originally Posted by lordbest

DC Rebirth was quite diverse too, especially following the New 52. Both in terms of characters and especially creators.
Plus multiple retailers have gone on the record saying diversity was good for Marvel, it was the constant events and cancelling titles before they even reached trades and so forth which hurt them.

Bolding this because this has been a constant problem in comics, but Marvel's been REALLY bad with it.

Honestly, I can't remember when the last period of more than a year where there wasn't some stupid effing event dominating the books. Have we been inundated in events since the original Civil War, or has it been before that?

It's part of the reason I'm even getting dragged out with the Transformers comics, which are some of my favorite books - IDW has started down the 'Event-a-Year' method that forces the individual writers to sideline their stories for the sake of an event, and it's gotten worse since they've incorporated numerous other Hasbro property titles into a shared universe.

When you have an 'event' every few months, it stops being eventful and starts being boring as hell. And above anything else, that is gonna make your audience apathetic to your books - a good story can't be told if it has to play second-fiddle to the story mandates of the editorial arm.