I want to find out the deal behind the Red Hulk? I have to have this huge Fall of the Hulks checklist.
I follow a few X-books and long for the second coming of Hope? Huge Second Coming checklist.
I want to see the New Mutants back in action? Huge X-Necrosha checklist.
X-Nation has been great so far but it’s a hard to follow. Uncanny is so good, Legacy is so good, New Mutants is great.

DC handled the situation great with the Batman revamp. The main story was in the main title, readable as one sequence.

A story should never start in one title and continue in another, like Kraven’s Last Hunt, The Other, or most of the overlap between Detective/Batman during the nineties. Things like a shared snowstorm or blackout or limbo-invasion is fine. “This story continued in Uncanny Detective #223” is not.

Having just read the Essential X-men that covers that time period, that sort of thing is just odd. No context other than “hey, whats going on” and no further explanation.

I disagree. Where-as every writer needed to know what was going on with Civil War or Secret Invasion, Greg Pak hardly has to worry about the X-men event any more than Mike Carey has to follow the Hulk event. Its just like going back to the old X-men only type cross-overs they used to do.

Just because a couple of critics like on here worship at the altar of Morrion doesn’t change facts, hell I was just reading on here how great Morrion’s X-Men run was and that was another debacle. The facts are that it didn’t live up to the hype with fan or sales wise from Morrison’s own lips he said he would beat Secret Invasion and the sales on FC didn’t stack up. And most fans pretty much made it clear that it was a clusterfuck of an event that really didn’t deliver on any of the promises it made, I know the Morrison kool-aid drinkers are now trying to go back and re-write the past but they’re not fooling anyone FC was a flop in everyway hence why people were fatigued with DC until BN dropped.

I think my favorite “crossover” was back in Simonson’s Thor, when the ongoing plot involved the Casket of Ancient Winter being broken, and then you saw unusual snowstorms in several other Marvel books at the time. That was enough to establish a shared universe, but not so much that it disrupted other writers’ ability to tell their own stories.

Thanks to Robot6 for bringing this up, since I was going to do the same thing on a forum eventually.

They’re both right, really. I had a problem with Quesada’s though, because Marvel’s publishing catalogue for 2010 isn’t backing up his words. Yes, Siege should be over before we’re a third of the way through 2010, but X-Men’s got a huge event, there’s some event featuring all the “street-level” heroes…when there’s a family of books this large, even a mini-event is pretty big.

You’ve gotta back off ALL the events before you can say event fatigue is real, and that’s why we’re taking a break.

Linewide events, I agree, can be really tiresome…but only because a single premise (heroes, villains and loved ones come back from the dead!) can only sustain so many different stories. I’ll be honest — I’m tired of that already. If you limit those events in scope and scale a little, you’re good to go.

Whatever, I’m on board for a lot of the stuff both companies are putting out, we’ll see how it goes. They’ve both got some most excellent talent on deck.

Time will tell who is right.

But, when you have some real building time like Geoff Johns has had with Blackest Night, then that’s when things start getting interesting.

Peace.