Comments on: Your Culmination of A Culmination Leads to The Next Culmination

By: Bryant

Bryant — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:53:45 +0000

I wouldn’t mind all these events if they would take a break every once in a while or follow up on some of the stuff they do(all the stuff from World War Hulk felt like it was swept under a rug after it was done, so they could shuffle on to the next big event).
Even tv shows don’t always end the season on a big cliffhanger.

By: Augie De Blieck Jr.

Augie De Blieck Jr. — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:43:13 +0000

Bells –

Luke is on General Hospital last I checked. Laura hasn’t been on in years.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:37:24 +0000

So, you’ve finished building the girlfriend, then?

By: dvs

dvs — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:08:01 +0000

I just wanted to say: I’M BUYING A PSYLOCKE COSTUME FOR MY GIRLFRIEND :d

By: Deco

Deco — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:05:31 +0000

I’m shocked, shocked to find out Marvel keeps trying to tell stories that seem to flow from one into the next, and keeps telling us they’ll be exciting! Ridiculous! As if that’s what we want in our comics! I wish they’d just admit they’re making it all up and trying to keep us buying!

By: Deco

Deco — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:05:02 +0000

I’m shocked, shocked to find out Marvel keeps trying to tell stories that seem to from one into the next, and keeps telling us they’ll be exciting! Ridiculous! As if that’s what we want in our comics! I wish they’d just admit they’re making it all up and trying to keep us buying!

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:29:23 +0000

Supermutant: “One endless cycle of thing leading to another thing.”

I don’t get it. Are you expecting to say “well, that’s it! story’s over!” and just cancel X-Men?

By: Maverickman874

Maverickman874 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:05:50 +0000

The real question is, does this depress you ?

By: Supermutant

Supermutant — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:04:56 +0000

Axel you just made my point for me. One endless cycle of thing leading to another thing. You wonder why fans have extreme event/crossover fatigue.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:25:18 +0000

“In Graeme’s defense, this mostly comes from Augie.”

Ah, of course. Augie MADE him reblog this!!!

Certainly the several different creators/editors mentioned here could have used different verbiage, but really, this is serialized storytelling. It’s kind of like complaining that television shows have season finales and season premieres.

By: Bells

Bells — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:51:14 +0000

This is comics, where the second act never ends. Is that what we love about this stuff?

Much like soap operas (their years-long stories really are the closest thing), we follow these characters for a while, then the spotlight goes to someone else, only to have it go back sometime later. Or we stop watching/reading for a while, but we can always pick it up again when we want to see these characters we’ve invested so much in.

Are Luke and Laura still on General Hospital?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:43:39 +0000

Marvel DID end for lots of people. We stopped buying their comics. See: resolution achieved.

By: WTF

WTF — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:40:34 +0000

I dont even see what’s there to defend . Those that quasi immortal serialized series , not mangas with a beginning a middle and an end .

If you dont expect such series to go on constantly dropping storyline leading to lumination then rinse repeat … change your medium of entertainement .

Even more so when you at least got a way to see some of those heroes in more contained stories and permanent effects , with the movie adaptations .

By: Kyle Garret

Kyle Garret — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:47:41 +0000

In Graeme’s defense, this mostly comes from Augie.

But it is a case of the boy who called wolf. The problem is that we keep falling for it. The Big Two have their hands tied, anyway, when it comes to culminations. They can’t drastically change their IPs for any real length of time and they have to keep copyrights alive, so ultimately it’s the same types of stories over and over again.

Not that great creators can’t work within that framework and produce excellent stories, but there are constraints, even if they’re just broad ones.

By: Bizzle

Bizzle — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:31:56 +0000

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

By: Meh

Meh — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:58:51 +0000

Then again , what are the complaints even about ? So yeah they start stuff based on stories , plots and crumbs they dropped over years . Isnt that precisely what they should be doing ?

By: DBG

DBG — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:41:27 +0000

So this is different than the all the CRISIS books…. how? This is what the majors do… they culminate. They’ve been doing it for what.. decades now? Kind of a NO NEWS segment here.

By: Jane A

Jane A — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:35:06 +0000

Don’t you just hate Marvel!