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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
When I was growing up reading comics DC was coke and Marvel was pepsi. As in DC owned the market every month of every year I ever read comics.
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Confirmed: Cecil is a 65+ year old boomer looking into reverse mortgages.
DC periodically pulls ahead of Marvel for a few months every couple of years. Then it declines. Marvel has 2-3 line wide crossovers per year. Plus individual lines (Inhumans, X-Men, Spider-Man) might have their own event or crossover once or twice a year. It's definitely overkill.
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Originally Posted by KTrain
I can't keep up with Marvel's changes any more. I read Daredevil and Dr Strange. That's it. I used to love X-Men and enjoyed The All New X-Men series (old X-Men in current timeline) but I wouldn't know where to start reading that again and the crossovers would piss me off as much as they used to.
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Most of the characters from All-New X-Men v1 can now be found in All-New X-Men v2. Teen Jean moved to Extraordinary X-Men v1. Teen Cyclops is moving to the new Champions series later this year , with other teen/young Marvel heroes but ones who aren't mutants (ex. Hulk (Amadeus Cho), Nova (Sam Alexander), Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Viv (Vision's daughter).
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Originally Posted by KTrain
The problem for Marvel and DC is this format would limit the number of crossovers/events they're able to do.
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I think the bigger problem is that it's way too limiting to try and schedule 70+ titles to follow the same 12 month schedule and re-start during the same month every year. Marvel mostly schedules new series and creative teams as new volumes with #1s and jumping on points exactly as you describe - they just do it throughout the year, with new arcs, stories, and titles starting a dozen or more times every month.