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TheBlueMarvel · 05-27-2021, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

Well fans likely moaned and groaned as they always have back then as they do now, but AOA was a massive success for Marvel and a huge fan favorite, which they've literally returned to that well many times for like every anniversary and various copycat events over the years trying to recapture that 90s level ambition. Hell, the current Heroes Reborn is practically right out of the AOA playbook just for the Avengers.

My recollection is similar to that of Webz. Outside of X-men fans, who are admittedly a huge fanbase capable of propelling popularity/sales on their lonesome, I recall the comic book shop assessment being not so glowing of AoA. AoA by no means started nor typified cross over events. It wasn't even the first for the X-men, as I stopped regular reading of main tier X-books following Inferno. The 90s represented a great deal of hype and, sometimes, empty and gaudy numbers given the many non-readers collecting in a get-rich-quick fashion. Once the Zeitgeist glommed onto Supes and Spidey #1s selling for tens of thousands of dollars, everybody from coked out investment bankers to polydent peddling octogenarians were buying up tinfoil variants of Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider left and right. They did the same with everything from Beanie Babies to Tickle-Me Elmo. Remember the foil cover madness, or every title being rebooted to #1 to cash in on the uninitiated that didn't know better? Well, I do. I had friends working in and running shops at the time and while they certainly don't represent a large and diverse pool of evidentiary research, their "meh"ness about AoA wasn't exactly an isolated occurrence - as anecdotal a statement as that may be. AoA is definitely celebrated among the many, many X-men fans, but I'm not sure of the event's cachet far beyond.

Alllllll that said, I can't say I'm entirely unbiased as, imo, there have only been 3.5 cross over events that I've continued to like in the years following: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinity Gauntlet, Annihilation, and half of Annihilation:Conquest.

05-27-2021, 06:31 PM	#25
TheBlueMarvel MarvelLegends/DCUniverse Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: On the metaphysical plane of celestial BOOM BAP! Posts: 6,040	Quote: Originally Posted by GizmoTron Well fans likely moaned and groaned as they always have back then as they do now, but AOA was a massive success for Marvel and a huge fan favorite, which they've literally returned to that well many times for like every anniversary and various copycat events over the years trying to recapture that 90s level ambition. Hell, the current Heroes Reborn is practically right out of the AOA playbook just for the Avengers. My recollection is similar to that of Webz. Outside of X-men fans, who are admittedly a huge fanbase capable of propelling popularity/sales on their lonesome, I recall the comic book shop assessment being not so glowing of AoA. AoA by no means started nor typified cross over events. It wasn't even the first for the X-men, as I stopped regular reading of main tier X-books following Inferno. The 90s represented a great deal of hype and, sometimes, empty and gaudy numbers given the many non-readers collecting in a get-rich-quick fashion. Once the Zeitgeist glommed onto Supes and Spidey #1s selling for tens of thousands of dollars, everybody from coked out investment bankers to polydent peddling octogenarians were buying up tinfoil variants of Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider left and right. They did the same with everything from Beanie Babies to Tickle-Me Elmo. Remember the foil cover madness, or every title being rebooted to #1 to cash in on the uninitiated that didn't know better? Well, I do. I had friends working in and running shops at the time and while they certainly don't represent a large and diverse pool of evidentiary research, their "meh"ness about AoA wasn't exactly an isolated occurrence - as anecdotal a statement as that may be. AoA is definitely celebrated among the many, many X-men fans, but I'm not sure of the event's cachet far beyond. Alllllll that said, I can't say I'm entirely unbiased as, imo, there have only been 3.5 cross over events that I've continued to like in the years following: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinity Gauntlet, Annihilation, and half of Annihilation:Conquest. Last edited by TheBlueMarvel; 05-27-2021 at 07:00 PM..