How often should Marvel have Events?

[Mister Mets]

Every now and then, I hear complaints that Marvel's releasing too many universe-wide Events (to distinguish something like Civil War from something like Messiah Complex.)

This begs the question: How often should Marvel have major Events, like House of M, Civil War, World War Hulk, Secret Invasion and whatever's next?

And what should Marvel do to avoid the problems readers have with events?

[Dr. Chaos]

If Marvel wants one every other year, that wouldn't bother me.

I've never really experienced a burnout from the events yet, I'm still quite the whore for them.

[XPac]

As far as big company wide events, I think 1 a year during the summer is about right.

[wooten16]

As far as big company wide events, I think 1 a year during the summer is about right.

I'll second that.

[Weapon Ick]

Whenever a story needs to be told that is large enough in scope and scale that it requires cross-overs.

[DaeJi]

I don't think Marvel has to have events, but if there's a story coming that could effect a lot of different characters, why not make it an event? World War Hulk could have been told in his own book and Secret Invasion could be an Avengers story. But they were better for being an event.

[carabas]

I don't think Marvel has to have events, but if there's a story coming that could effect a lot of different characters, why not make it an event? World War Hulk could have been told in his own book and Secret Invasion could be an Avengers story. But they were better for being an event.Compare World War Hulk to the Sinestro Corps War.
SCW was a hell of a lot more focused and satisfying for not being spread around a dozen titles and mini series.
The more spread out they are, the more various different writers work on them, the more needlesly dragged out a story is, the less enjoyable it becomes.

Too many cooks spoil the broth. Secret Invasion would be a whole lot more appealing to me if it was just six or eight or so issues of New/Mighty avengers like it originally was supposed to be.
Planet Hulk was far superior and satifying than World War Hulk for the same reason.

[sHayden]

If Marvel wants one every other year, that wouldn't bother me.

I've never really experienced a burnout from the events yet, I'm still quite the whore for them.

I second that, I'll whore for them as well.
But do they need to take an occasional break? Of course, because these big events can often throw off some of what the writer wants to do with a character because he/she has to be involved in this earth shattering event. I'd like to see them stop for a year or two and tell the writers and artists to do what they want for awhile, no "event interruptions"

[hawkeye comeback]

i reckon about two years inbetween events at the least
so we can have: New status quo explored, non evnt storylines and then a bit of build up in main books realted to event

[deadpool2008]

Whenever a story needs to be told that is large enough in scope and scale that it requires cross-overs.

I agree 110%

[Mister Mets]

I think there should be a minimum of six months between the end of one Universe-wide Event and the beginning of another AND one year between the beginning of one Universe-Wide Event and another. This isn't to imply an obligation to release an Event book once an year.

Another key way to avoid Event fatigue would be to release every issue of the main Event on time, which could be done by giving a reliable creative team a lot of lead time. This way a seven issue Event book would come out within a six month period.

[matthewaos]

I think every 5 years would be great. This way, the events is really important. I'm not talking about crossover events likt MC though, I don't have a problem, as long as they they don't cross with not related books (like if MC was tied up with She Hulk)

[Weapon Ick]

The problem with setting a time table for releasing events is that is one of the things that went wrong in the 90's. The mandate would come down saying something like "It's time to have an event. Think of a story for a crossover." And you would end up with stories like "Uh... well, how bout there's a guy called Onslaught, and he's like really tough to beat?"

The story needs to come first and if it warrants an event then that's what should follow. Not the other way around. Otherwise you get cross-overs that really don't need to be cross-overs and the same mistakes just get repeated.