I don’t know about the rest of you, but I hate Cross Over Stories!
And I don’t mean just a little hatred, this is a Large, Gut Wrenching, Migrain causing Hate!
Why am I so passionate about this you might ask…..
Lets look at the cost of things today…
Gas- averages around $3.00 a gallon! Ouch!
Ticket to a Movie- Almost $10.00 ( I wanted to go to Transformers last week, and got turned off by the $9.50 cost per ticket )
Music CD - relatively cheap around $14-$16 bucks. Still a worth while price
The average price for a comic - $2.99. Still a decent price, as long as the book meets all my requirements.
No, I haven’t forgotten that we are talking comics here, so…..
At $2.99 a book ( on average ) when the big two in the industry decide to make a major event, why do they have to torture the comic book fan, by actually having to make said event cross over several different comics that may or may not fall into a certain family of titles.
The recently concluded 52, crossed over into just about ( if not all the DC titles ) and pretty much forced you to collect some ( at least some ) titles that you might follow to see what effect 52 was having on said title(s) that you followed.
Marvel’s recently concluded Civil War was another story that while you could have read as a stand alone story, you wound up getting other titles just to see what was effected by the war.
But here is the worst case yet of the comic book reader being taken advantage of by a comic book publisher…
Marvel’s X-Men Endangered Species, which just kicked off in June with a one shot of the same name.
Now, Marvel has the nerve to make this storyline ( which is supposedly a pretty significant event ) as a back up story ( an 8 page story to boot ), that will run thru all the X titles thru October of this year!
Are You Kidding Me!
This little back up story will be contained in seventeen books, all X titles, that you will have to read in order to get the complete story!
What really ticks me off about this is, that Marvel, could have really done right by the fanboys ( of which I happen to be one of ) by making this storyline a STAND ALONE that would have told the complete tale.
But no!!!!
Marvel wouldn’t rake in the bucks that way, so lets show how little we really care about the comic book buyer today, and make him or her shell out extra bucks for titles they might not normally read, in order to follow these 8 pages of backup nonsense!
If this was really going to be a big deal, Marvel should have done this the right way, by making it a self contained story, running thru just one title.
This way, if it was something you wanted to follow, you could have, without the added cost of having to buy titles you might not normally want to or need to purchase.
The worst part for me is that I picked up the one shot, and I will probably wait till they take this back up story, and put it together into a trade edition, for everyone else who has better things to do with their hard earned moolah!
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