The Best & Worst Comic Book Events

InformationGeek · June 19, 2011, 09:43:45 PM

Here's an interesting list for the comic book fans among us. I've read most of the DC events for the best, but none of the worst for any company. Sadly, Blackest Night isn't here.

Best: http://comics.ign.com/articles/117/1170986p1.html

Worst: http://comics.ign.com/articles/117/1172370p1.html

Hammock Rider · June 20, 2011, 12:38:29 PM

Events have become such Cash Cows that I don't find them enjoyable anymore. They're not planned as entertaining stories anymore, they are just designed to maximize revenue streams, which is fine except that it shows. Secret Invasion not only set us up for a pay-off that never really came, but it cost so much to follow. I gave up following it because not only did they run the main storyline but they had literally dozens of spin off books you were suppossed to buy in order to keep up. I was actually insulted that Marvel tried to milk me so much. Blackest Night just seemed silly to me.

I did like Secret Wars, Annihilation, 52 and Age of Apocolypse. Crisis on Infinite Earths was too long and too unwieldy. It was all plot.

InformationGeek · June 20, 2011, 01:36:17 PM

Quote from: Hammock Rider on June 20, 2011, 12:38:29 PM
Blackest Night just seemed silly to me.

I did like Secret Wars, Annihilation, 52 and Age of Apocolypse. Crisis on Infinite Earths was too long and too unwieldy. It was all plot.

Well Blackest Night is an odd one, but it doesn't require as much extra reading as a bunch of other events do (Pretty much read Green Lantern: Blackest Night and your set.) 52 is probably the best of them all since we got a series of awesome and incredible writers who planned out things far in advance and worked together to solve whatever issues they had. Made one hell of a fun time. Crisis, I agree, was too long. It was enjoyable, but just never ended after plenty of good points to stop the story.

Leah · June 20, 2011, 02:38:38 PM

I'm surprised that JLA: Act of God isn't on the Worst List

InformationGeek · June 20, 2011, 02:47:47 PM

Quote from: El Toro Loco on June 20, 2011, 02:38:38 PM
I'm surprised that JLA: Act of God isn't on the Worst List

We are techincally dealing with Event based comics, which are large scale stories that affected the universes of the superheroes. Act of God is an elseworld, 3 issue story.

WingedSerpent · June 20, 2011, 03:52:16 PM

I love Annhilation and the Sinestro Corps War. Civil War and House of M were alright but never appealed to me.

Why is Maximum Carnage on the worst list? That's an awsome event. Really if their main problem was that it could have been trimmed, that's a flaw but it certainly didn't make it terrible.

The Worst:
I bought Countdown, and the Moon Knight and Ghost rider tie-in's to ShadowLand.

The Burgomaster · June 23, 2011, 04:51:27 PM

Not the best event, but the one I remember most from the 1970s was the War of the Super Villains in IRON MAN. It had a bunch of villains like the Yellow Claw, Modok, and the Mad Thinker and it stretched across numerous issues. That was the first real "epic" I remember.

Leah · June 29, 2011, 02:26:02 PM

I'm surprised that Batman: No Man's Land isn't on the list.

JaseSF · June 29, 2011, 10:21:56 PM

I enjoyed Secret Wars, Crisis on Infinite Earths and The Infinity Gauntlet quite a bit. I also somewhat enjoyed Legends, which I think I'm probably in the minority for liking. Surprised they didn't mention Zero Hour which I felt was rather disappointing...