For reference, I would include the following as "line-wide events" of the 21st century. Obviously this can be argued.
Marvel: 2005- House of M 2006-07- Civil War 2008- Secret Invasion 2010- Siege 2011- Fear Itself 2012- Avengers vs. X-Men 2013- Infinity 2014- Original Sin 2014- AXIS 2015- Secret Wars 2016- Civil War II
DC: 2004- Identity Crisis 2005- Infinite Crisis 2007- Final Crisis 2008- Blackest Night 2011- Flashpoint 2013-14- Forever Evil
David Sullivan
You forgot Convergence for 2015 And including that, I'd consider two DC events to be shit, the rest either mediocre or okay.
I hate just about every marvel event listed.
Ethan Russell
>I'd consider two DC events to be shit Which two? Final Crisis and Flashpoint?
Brandon Smith
I'm an old fart Marvel fan but honestly DC has had better events with the ones listed.
Leo Cruz
You forgot Age of Ultron. I'm pretty sure AXIS and Infinity were supposed to be contained in their own books before upper-management turned them into events.
I'm a Marvel guy, but DC does it better for the sole fact they don't shove it down your throat every year.
Thomas Barnes
I find DC events to be more interesting. Not always good, mind you, just more interesting.
Isaiah Gray
Convergence and Identity Crisis
Kayden Roberts
Am I missing anything? I think Convergence can be argued. It was really unique in that it didn't tie into anything, but took up 2 full months of publications. I think there was a few from both publishers before 2004, but none of them had the impact that any of the ones listed had (on story and sales).
Christopher Turner
Marvel only had one good event
I find DC's more enjoyable generally
Gabriel Ortiz
>You forgot Age of Ultron. I don't think that counts. It didn't tie into any ongoing, just spawned a few one-shots.
Jackson Howard
6 tie-ins and a one-shot.
Jace Gonzalez
I didn't think you were, but it kind of goes to show from post that Marvel has really chosen quantity over quality. Not that DC's were amazing by most standards.
David Green
>Marvel >a bunch of shit
>DC >a bunch of shit
Shit is still shit user
Elijah Peterson
>2005- House of M Fair >2006-07- Civil War Also fair >2008- Secret Invasion Good >2010- Siege Shit >2011- Fear Itself Shit >2012- Avengers vs. X-Men Shit >2013- Infinity Dunno >2014- Original Sin Shit >2014- AXIS Poor >2015- Secret Wars Dunno >2016- Civil War II Never gonna know
>2004- Identity Crisis fair >2005- Infinite Crisis poor >2007- Final Crisis fair >2008- Blackest Night Dunno >2011- Flashpoint 2 fast 4 me >2013-14- Forever Evil dunno
If you factor in Messiah CompleX and Second Coming (though I understand why you wouldn't) they have parity, but Marvel's events are just too damn bloated and D.C. wins.
t. Marveldrone
Liam Rivera
Back to the reservation my little Indiean.
Robert Gutierrez
I noticed a similar trend in . Right around 2010 things started going downhill at Marvel. Was it the purchase by Disney in '09?
Ian Ramirez
Bullshit. Just because it says AU at the end of the number doesn't mean they're "tie-ins." They were one-shots.
Juan Scott
>I typed ftfy
Juan Hernandez
oh, thanks user.
Camden Williams
Arguably things were already going downhill in 2008 with OMD and Secret Invasion.
Landon Bennett
Has this caught on with anybody else or are you still the only person pushing it?
Samuel Peterson
I saw one other guy use it ONCE, but i'm mostly a lonr wolf.
i didnt think i came up with it tho
Jason Williams
>line-wide You could maybe start making arguments including the X-Men and cosmic events. But as it stands, everything line-wide usually sucks at Marvel. DC does it a bit better.
Christian Wright
I think X-Men have crossovers, not events.
Brody Miller
>X-overs C'mon.
Luis Ramirez
One might argue that Future's End was an event.
Gavin Garcia
That's a weekly
Caleb White
I only know Civil War is happening because Nova and Hellcat have tie-ins besides that Vision, Silk, Carnage, Venom, Gwenpool, Squadron Supreme and Mockingbird are just chilling, untarnished people reading a Bendis event should expect what they're going to get by now
Hudson Turner
With a tie-in oneshot for every ongoing at the time. Something that, as far as I'm aware, only happens with events.
Connor Stewart
No more Inhumans?
Connor Stewart
I'm a Crystalfag and refuse to read anything involving Inhumans until they give her back her hair
oh yeah forget to mention I'm reading Captain Marvel and I think that's getting a tie-in or two unfortunately shame they're gonna drop Carol's first actual ok writer
Owen Nelson
I'm sorry you'll never read Inhumans for many, many years.
Tyler Reed
>event comics are shit >"OH YEAH? WELL YOU LIKE INDIE BOOKS" wew
Asher James
I'm not sorry at all why would you want to read that? If they try to use her new design in the MCU it would be the absolute dumbest thing ever Why did Marvel try to push Medusa over Crystal anyway? That's the most illogical marketing move ever.
Landon Carter
>If they try to use her new design in the MCU But it's dead in the water.
Joseph Collins
the Inhumans movie? good get a long haired beautiful and badass Crystal to be star of AoS and randomly appear in movies/shows because why not it will inspire some new good fanart anyhow
Nicholas Russell
You forgot Age of Ultron.
Henry Lopez
>the Inhumans movie? It might not be, but they've pushed it back and Disney seems to be leveraging other properties.
I'm thinking they may've worked something out with Fox.
Chase Smith
You niggers forgot World War Hulk, was that even that hated? That shit got me into comics.
Like I read a couple of random issues as a little kid of Batman, Superman and surprinsingly, Green Arrow.
Then I read Sandman, then I heard about Marvel Zombies and while looking info about it I got a link for a ''trailer'' for World War Hulk, I read every single issue of that shit!
I don't see me doing that ever again, it was a different time, I didn't knew how to talk to girls
Julian Fisher
Not a "line-wide" event. The whole thing was contained in issues specifically imprinted for it.
Juan Ward
You also forgot Brightest Day, like 20 books were doing Brightest day shit, that and Convergence.
The sad thing is that the Marvel list is bigger and there still events missing from the list...
Caleb Adams
I think a few books had tie-ins. I know Ant-Man did
Jaxon Wright
AoU and WWH were set up more like the big Marvel events, like moreso than Annihilation and Spider-Island.
Lincoln Perry
not convergence and final crisis
Identity crisis wasn't as bad.
Michael Ward
Then how is Final Crisis a line-wide event? It only affected Batman.
Jordan Foster
All events are pretty much shit, but I hate that Marvel has so many.