So, here’s the thing about event fatigue.<\/p>\n
It’s not that there are annual events.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not that they take most of a year to get finished.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s that – at least for me – they don’t do<\/em> anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing has huge consequences anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know if they ever did, but there was a point where it felt like they did.\u00c2\u00a0 The last two events that I really got behind were Infinite Crisis<\/em> and Civil War. <\/em>As literature, they aren’t the best, but shit happpens in them – an embarrassment of shit happening, in fact.\u00c2\u00a0 For everything that I loved about Final Crisis<\/em>, all of its toys went right back into the box when they were done with the sole exception of Batman, who DC flat-out told us would be back.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Messiah CompleX<\/em>, which I actually did like a lot, killed off Caliban and Deathstrike, both of whom have had significant appearances this year, and then shunted its MacGuffin into the future where it could be patly ignored most of the time.<\/p>\n Which is the main reason why I can get behind Marvel’s Dark Reign: The List<\/em> one-shots.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve read all of them except for the Hulk one – which I just haven’t been able to track down yet – and most of them have been important in establishing new status quos for the characters – whether it’s Bullseye finally erasing the last of Matt Murdock’s reluctance about leading The Hand, Namor facing down his wife Marrina, Ronin’s one-man assault on Avengers Tower, or the fight between Daken and the Punisher.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve all felt like they’ve meant something big for those characters. That it has consequences for the universe.<\/p>\n And man, that Punisher one-shot.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent most of the issue saying “They didn’t just do that,” to myself.\u00c2\u00a0 And, of course, they did just do that.\u00c2\u00a0 Over and over. And I loved every second of it.<\/p>\n And yet I haven’t heard a lot of chatter online about these books.\u00c2\u00a0 Mainly because I’m avoiding a lot of comic communities for my sanity’s sake these days, maybe.\u00c2\u00a0 Have you been reading them, and if so, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, here’s the thing about event fatigue. It’s not that there are annual events.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not that they take most of a year to get finished.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s that – at least for me – they don’t do anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing has huge consequences anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know if they ever did, but there was a point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[413,228,37,229],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-comics","tag-dark-reign","tag-marvel","tag-the-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}