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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 14, 2012 18:06:29 GMT -5
Inspired by Crom's RON MARZ CREATED A POSTER CHILD FOR WASTED OPPORTUNITIES article which talked about crossovers. What crossover events do you feel were successful and why? Usually what we see is the story after the first issue and before the last, the story sometimes dwindles on unimportant stories as to fill the gap with things we don't really want to see. |
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Dec 14, 2012 19:01:18 GMT -5
Does Annihilation count as a crossover? If so, poster child.
Also, COIE. Another poster child.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 14, 2012 19:06:20 GMT -5
I did enjoy COIE. The amount of effort that went into that was crazy! All those characters!
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Dec 14, 2012 19:12:12 GMT -5
Yeah, it was amazing. It makes Blackest Night and Flashpoint all the more tragic to know that the house that produced COIE didn't learn anything from it.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 14, 2012 19:15:15 GMT -5
Sinestro Corp War (MCE?) I thought was excellent. There something going on in every issue.
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Dec 14, 2012 19:22:09 GMT -5
Is that considered a major crossover?
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 14, 2012 19:27:33 GMT -5
That's why I put MCE - Major Crossover Event.
I guess it wasn't. It did have some impact.
What about 52? Or WWIII from it? These MCE?
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Dec 14, 2012 19:36:50 GMT -5
I don't know if you can call a 52 issues series an event. But it certainly was successful as hell.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 14, 2012 19:38:34 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on the other Crises? Infinite/Identify/Final?
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Dec 14, 2012 19:50:12 GMT -5
Complicated.
I don't think any of them were actually successful, but Final and Infinite weren't really that bad either. Never read Identity, and from I hear I have no reason to either.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 14, 2012 19:54:57 GMT -5
Yeah no need to read IdC.
I'd have loved to have scene what Morrison had planned if it wasn't for the DotNG series.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 14, 2012 19:57:59 GMT -5
Zero Hour?
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Post by jakefury on Dec 14, 2012 22:02:41 GMT -5
I'm going to say House of M because it actually had some lasting changes in the Marvel U.
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Post by Erik-El on Dec 15, 2012 1:17:30 GMT -5
Complicated. I don't think any of them were actually successful, but Final and Infinite weren't really that bad either. Never read Identity, and from I hear I have no reason to either. I had mixed feelings on it. On one hand you get to read about heroes being a hell of a lot less than heroes, which can sometimes be cool. On the other, it was a rape-y event. |
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Post by Erik-El on Dec 15, 2012 1:17:57 GMT -5
I'm going to say House of M because it actually had some lasting changes in the Marvel U. Which has been completely erased. |
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Dec 15, 2012 4:58:41 GMT -5
I had mixed feelings on it. On one hand you get to read about heroes being a hell of a lot less than heroes, which can sometimes be cool. On the other, it was a rape-y event. Poor Doctor Light. They took a washed-up but sometimes competent b-lister and turned him into Rapey Rapist, the rape-man. Pretty much ruined the character for further storytelling. |
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Post by CitizenBane on Dec 15, 2012 6:15:47 GMT -5
SCW wouldn't really be a major crossover. It mostly involved just the two Green Lantern books, though it had random tie-ins with books like Blue Beetle here and there.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Dec 15, 2012 8:50:21 GMT -5
Think I should shorten it to just crossovers? Or keep the 'major'?
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Post by jakefury on Dec 15, 2012 10:12:42 GMT -5
I'm going to say House of M because it actually had some lasting changes in the Marvel U. Which has been completely erased. True but the changes lasted until AvX. |
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Post by jakefury on Dec 15, 2012 19:47:40 GMT -5
Maybe Flashpoint? I mean it did change the face of the entire DC universe.
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