The Heroes Reborn font? Really? Are Marvel so desperate for new fonts that they have to recycle something from 15 years ago??
I'd be willing to bet that this will be an 'after Fear Itself' cover banner. Not so much a cross-over event, but a 'Heroic Age' style event with the occasional one-shot to tie in to regular ongoing titles.
But more than anything...
IF YOU DON'T LIKE MARVEL'S NON-STOP EVENTS & CROSS-OVERS THEN STOP BUYING THEM!!!
They are only responding to the sales spikes created by fans who'll buy everything & anything; quantity not quality. If these events didn't sell, then they would STOP making them!
Nope. I just found out that Boom Boom has another pointlessly small cameo in Uncanny X-Men's Fear ITself tie-in. I'm still not going to buy it until it's a cheap back issue that doesn't count towards the sales figures ;)
I don't buy Uncanny X-Men brand new off the shelf for the same reason people who complain about "Event Fatigue" should stop buying the events that they claim to hate so much... If sales drop down, then Marvel will have to change something.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE MARVEL'S NON-STOP EVENTS & CROSS-OVERS THEN STOP BUYING THEM!!!
Yeah, sorry but I'm calling bull on this. Sure eventually we fans who have been reading comics forever will get tired (and are tired) of these events will stop buying them, but there are always those new readers out there who fall for the whole "nothing will ever be the same!" tagline and will keep buying the books thinking that they're seeing the next chapter in the Marvel Universe unfold before their very eyes and yet they don't even realize that it's the same "universe changing" event every few months. And Marvel knows that they can sucker these readers and thus will keep making the events. It's not about being smart and not buying, it's the fact that Marvel knows that new readers are suckers and fall for the same old tricks and that's why we keep seeing them.
But I could seriously get into everything I see wrong with Marvel's "don't buy" solution for fans to tell Marvel what they like and don't like because honestly every time I see Joe Q, or Bendis, or Loeb mention the whole "don't buy the books, we won't make them" crap I find that such a horrible and crappy way to tell what the fans "like" and "don't like"... -___-
IF YOU DON'T LIKE MARVEL'S NON-STOP EVENTS & CROSS-OVERS THEN STOP BUYING THEM!!!
This is exactly what I said. I don't understand people who keep buying the books week in and week out when there not happy with them. I have dropped nearly all of my Marvel books because I'v not been happy with them for a long while.
Secret Avengers is on my pull list and has been since it came out but I've been really tired of seeing the Fear Itself banner on things that it's worn me down so consequently reading the titles I'd normally get has become a chore, Journey into Mystery I have about 3 issues I've bought but haven't read yet because I'm getting fed up, yeah I could just stop until it blows over as Xerox Kitty rightly pointed out but I think the obsessive numbering collector keeps me from doing so. It's a sad state of affairs really, DC are more or less starting from scratch and Marvel just seem to be spiralling into chaos with this event mentality, I see nothing but weariness from other Viners who are much more in the loop than I am at the moment with the events and with a few people in shops, surely Marvel must see that they are running the risk of seriously alienating a good proportion of readers with these tactics?
man, I've got event fatigue. Not to mention I don't have the money for this if they want me to be following the main books. They should really streamline these things if they want numbers on their individual books up rather than just Marvel numbers being up. Oh well. I love me a good story, but this is getting ridiculous. However, given that it's in Oct, may be it's just an epilogue to Fear Itself?
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