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Post by Philip Ayres on May 27, 2010 20:23:48 GMT
By sheer fluke it'a turned into crossover week at Phil's DFiS. I've read Crisis on Infinite Earths, Secret Invasion, Seige and Asgardian Wars while I'm halfway through X-Men Second Coming All different crossovers. Mostly different types of crossover: Limited Series vs story running between separate titles vs LS with tie ins in regular books - both where the LS tells the whole story with the tie ins providing colour and where the LSmakes no sense without the tie-ins.
So.....
Favourite (and least fave) events crossovers people. what made em work and not work. which format of crossover do you prefer ?
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Post by The Doctor on May 27, 2010 21:15:32 GMT
Nothing will ever beat the original Secret Wars.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 8, 2015 11:24:40 GMT
Having tried to pick apart the ongoing Sexret Wars event, a question: Which of Marvel's modern crossover events work and which don't? We'll leave the older ones to one side and say that House of M is our starting point. Others include ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_history_of_Marvel_Comics_crossover_events#2000s): Annihilation Civil War World War Hulk Secret Invasion Siege Chaos War Fear Itself X-Men vs Avengers Infinity Original Sin AXIS |
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Post by primenova on Dec 8, 2015 12:29:37 GMT
I've not read anything since House of M about 2nd Panini issue in.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 8, 2015 23:15:23 GMT
House of M - No
Annihilation - Yes
Civil War - good idea, fell apart
World War Hulk - almost - dies on it's arse in the last issue
Secret Invasion - tedious, same story over and over again across all titles
Siege - nope
Chaos War - not really, but small scale
Fear Itself - oh my no
X-Men vs Avengers - fell on it's arse in two issues and never recovered
Infinity - nope,
Original Sin - yes
AXIS- oh no.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2015 14:32:22 GMT
I would say only Original Sin is 'good' but is two issues too long. World War Hulk and Avengers V X-Men are ok.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2015 15:19:32 GMT
WWH is just one long fight, nothing to it apart from that.
Avengers vs X-Men is a massive F*** up.
Enjoyed Original Sin: central self contained story worked well with the add ins providing detail and stories set round the main one.
By that measure House of M, Civil War and Secret Invasion worked ok too. Unfortunately Civil War's premise was flawed from the start and the main story is rather weak at times.
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Post by blueshift on Dec 9, 2015 22:09:10 GMT
I like the bit at the end of World War Hulk where it turns out that our heroes are NOT morally culpable in any way shape or form for anything, so no-one needs to do any introspection and it all ends nearly, THANK GOODNESS
God, look at that wretched list of crossovers. I think I only enjoyed Annihilation and maybe House of M (apart from the dumb dumb dumb ending). I also remember when everyone was excited about Secret Invasion and the long setup and planning for it and how it was going to be amazing and ah ha ha ha ha no
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 11, 2016 21:13:21 GMT
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