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Why did you stop reading Marvel or DC?
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As far as events go, the trick is to just not care about them. There are plenty of awesome books that either don't tie into events, or tie into them in ways that advance their own story. The year-long Gillen/McKelvie Young Avengers didn't tie into any events, and instead did its own thing, and that thing was awesome.With the deaths, there are certain characters who are less likely to return than others. Things that factor in: Being a person of colour, being a teenager, being from the '90s, having an unconventional power. Synch of Generation X is NEVER going to be brought back. The less well-known a character is, the lower their chances of return, which tends to suck for people like me who really love newer characters.
Beth: The shipping debates in comic circles are fierce. They can get downright vicious. The Scott/Jean/Emma love triangle could probably lead to riots if the people could pull themselves away from their computers. A lot of comic fans are shippers, and they all have their preferred ships, and they will fight to the death to defend those ships. ("Ships," if you don't know, is short for "relationships." Basically, think of the whole Team Edward vs. Team Jacob thing when Twilight was big. Comic book fans make that look reasonable.)
Ronyell wrote: "Awww....it's sad to see the Archie married series go out like that. I'm waiting for the next series--Life Without Archie. I actually think that could fly. But I doubt they'll do it.
Archie The Married Life was surprisingly good. It wasn't until they killed Archie it really caught my attention because it wasn't in comic book form and I never saw it anywhere. I'm reading in trades now.
Tiamatty wrote: "As far as events go, the trick is to just not care about them. There are plenty of awesome books that either don't tie into events, or tie into them in ways that advance their own story. The year-l..."And then there's the occasional event that's really worth all the paper it was printed on. My all time favorite event is Annihilation/ Annihilation Conquest. It was pretty much a self contained event that launched a bunch of ongoing series that were all quite good. The way Annihilation started with a four issue mini-series reintroducing Drax and expands out into four more four issue mini-series reintroducing other cosmic characters was brilliant.
It reminded me a little of the way Robinson and Goyer relaunched the JSA in 1999, gradually deploying the characters one by one into the base team. They started it off with a bunch of one shots. If you're looking for something self contained and simply wonderful, that series is a great run. There aren't really any clunkers in the 83 issue run.
David wrote: "Ronyell wrote: "Awww....it's sad to see the Archie married series go out like that. I'm waiting for the next series--Life Without Archie. I actually think that could fly. But I doubt they'll do ..."
It would be pretty interesting to see how they would handle the Life without Archie series, that's if fans are willing to read an Archie series without Archie.
Tiamatty wrote: "As far as events go, the trick is to just not care about them. There are plenty of awesome books that either don't tie into events, or tie into them in ways that advance their own story. The year-l..."It's sad that events these days are becoming stale with the fans because of how much Marvel and DC are using these events to create shock for the fans rather than deciding if this is a good route for the characters in general.
Yeah, I agree with you about relationships in comics being so complicated. Probably the series that gets this the worst is the X-Men since they have a lot of characters in that universe and each character is always hooking up with someone else for some reason. The flame wars for which X-Men character should hook up with who is definitely fierce!
To add to my answer from August 2014 - I've been catching up on some DC Comics series. One volume after another continuously annoy me, because the story lines aren't coherent. Because they keep having to divert the story to inject other characters, and/or other story-lines. Sometimes from massive events. Sometimes just randomly having characters stop by to visit.
In small doses that can be . . . absorbed. But I keep reading volumes that are incoherent. Because, apparently, every other story line gets interrupted before it's natural beginning, middle, and end.
Maybe it's just the volumes I've attempted to read recently and not specifically a DC Comics "thing". Still . . . I'm hesitant to continue reading DC Comics.
Awww....it's sad to see the Archie married series go out like that.