It gets even murkier if we take story arcs within ongoing titles. I've tried to only list events that were outside the books that gave rise to them. So, like, I'm not listing Spidey arcs that took place entirely within ASM.
Because, for example, Pre-FP JSA would occupy a lot of spots on my list, but that was just stories in their ongoing title. They weren't events, per se.
Though, ones like Second Coming are kinda in between. Unlike events *entirely* in the title like Last Hunt and Fall From Grace and most of the Bat events, it did have a couple stand alone issues in addition to running through several X-titles.
Just read Trinity War and Forever Evil on a lark. It all seemed a bit...familiar? Never mind that TW had the more interesting premise, then pissed it all away by a twist at the end that made no sense whatsoever, given the buildup. Forever Evil was a story that we've seen a dozen times under different guises. And the reveal at the end was, well, again, familiar. Apparently nothing about Final Crisis was actually final, eh? Or any of the earlier crises for that matter.
I assume some solo title picked up Pandora's story, which was never actually resolved. She had a neat epiphany toward the end, but the existential question of evil's existence and her role in it was left hanging. Up until the non sequitur ending, I was actually enjoying it quite a bit.
Though I find it hilarious that they're wasting no time mucking up multiversal continuity once again, so quickly after "fixing" it for about the 4th time. The Syndicate was from Earth 3, yeah? So we've already got continuity errors surfing the multiverse after the destruction of theirs. If pre-FP Kara shows up, it'll be a party.
Depending on the definition of these events, this new Green Lantern/New Gods event is shaping up to be something special. Probably one of the better grand scale, cosmic events I have read in a while.
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i read trinity when it first came out and really liked the way it started. but you're right--the conclusion was enormously unsatisfying, and yes, her story is still being told though i only followed it briefly after TW. i'll catch up eventually.
i started reading forever evil but it did nothing for me for whatever reason. then their were the vast number of tie-ins. it just seemed like a LOT of work for what i was afraid would be little pay off...
I loved Trinity War, even though it's not really a huge scale event. It was fine for what it was and that was to introduce the Crime Syndicate. Forever Evil was mixed bags, but still pretty good.
Flashpoint had the issue that it was mainly about an alt-world that didn't get much resolution, as the plot in the end was eaten by the timeline stuff. The event wasn't really about the big consequences that happened, and the big consequences didn't have much to do with the story of the event.
Wouldn't really call it a 'soft' reboot- even the stuff that 'carried over' was fairly altered, and more was changed than not. I'd say... what's happening at Sonic right now is a better example of a soft reboot (the whole main cast has memories of what was, but the world's been altered).
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