These last several years at DC remind me of a Bill Cosby comedy routine, where he tells a long, elaborate story and just when it seems he's reached the climax, states "Now - I told you that story so I could tell you this one!"
It's not enough to wake up the dead, old multiverse in Infinite Crisis; it has to be followed by 52, then Countdown, then the Sinestro Corps War, Final Crisis & then The Black Lanterns Saga - all within three years. After the original Crisis, things were stable for several years. Why DC is crossover event crazy right now - it's like Marvel in the early 90's when they kept spinning off The Infinity Gauntlet series. Guys, chill out with all the instability.
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House of M?
Planet Hulk?
World War Hulk?
Secret Invasion?
Silent War?
Civil War?
Annihilation?
Annihilation Conquest?
One More Day?
Brand New Day?
Messiah Complex?
To be fair, some of those aren't events but since we insist on calling SC an event, well, there ya go.
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It's just all the DC events are big, super-crisis sized ones - they just have become Crisis junkies. And it's like "What were we thinking - leaving Anti-Monitor dead for two decades?!" They want to make up for lost time. By contrast, Marvel had two events taking place in separate spheres - Civil War on Earth, with Annihilation taking place all through the cosmos. If DC did it, the Annihilation Wave would've reached Earth and cancelled out CW totally. DC is in such a state of flux right now, rewriting their history again, while Marvel is staying the course.
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Anything that involves the respective Earth of either company is immensely relevant. Planet Hulk wasn't relevant until it became WWH.
Sinestro Corps War wasn't relevant until they brought it from space, to Earth where SMP fought Ion, and the Anti-Monitor touched down.
You're kidding yourself if SC Corps wasn't relevant.
And Brand New Day would fall under my mini-event label.
Annihilation isn't relevant.
All i'm saying is that if DC and Marvel had dicks, they'd be shooting blanks by now.
Tender, sore dicks with the fat hands of Quesada and Didio persistently groping for a few more dribbles.
That's some terrible logic. You know how many books could be considered events with that definition?
What did Anti-Monitor do while he was on Earth? He fought Green Lanterns, then got turned into a Black Lantern so he could be used in *gasp* another GL story arc. Wow. Definitely what I call a CRISIS!
I see an event as anything that calls the collective heroes of either company together to face a threat as a united front. Not just teams, but heroes en masse.
Maybe yours just need to have the Didio/Quesada stamp.
That definition is far too loose to always consider it an event.
I just fail to see how a storyline that took place in two books, both under the Green Lantern banner, is comparable to something like Infinite Crisis or Civil War which totally took over DC and Marvel's entire comic lineup.
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