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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9661747" data-attributes="member: 907">Yeah, these days crossovers and events are dominating the comics space (at least for Marvel) to much too high a degree. I love having small crossovers, like Spider-Man running into something obviously magical and swinging by Doctor Strange's place for help (and probably getting told by Wong that the Doctor is off doing Sorcerer Supreme stuff so Spidey has to figure this one out himself), or Carol Danvers shacking up with the X-Men for a while while professor X is trying to help her regain her memories after having them drained by Rogue. That sort of thing creates a feel that the world is bigger than just this one book, without derailing this book's plots.But these days, a crossover is going to be like a 12-issue extravaganza spread over three different comics, or a separate book entirely, and with pretty much every other comic having tie-ins because the fate of the world is at stake and everyone has to work together and so on. I mostly blame Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson, and Bob Harras – Claremont and Simonson for the Mutant Massacre semi-crossover* event between all three X-books at the time (Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, and New Mutants), and Bob Harras for making them repeat it every year thereafter because it was such a success. But I think the modern format can be traced to House of M, with a central event book plus tie-ins that basically take over the whole product line for half the year, every year. And of course, we can't ignore the Distinguished Competition and their Crisis on Infinite Earths which should get a lot of the blame as well.* It wasn't really a crossover as such as you didn't really have characters from one book showing up in another, but you did have them see the results of what the other did.</blockquote>

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