I've already gone-off on Siege, but I'm not done there - not by a longshot (ha! - cuz... of... nothing) - but I need to remind you that I also have all the series and tie-in issues for the last three X-events, and I've yet to read a single one because I don't know where the hell to begin!
As I said about Utopia, I opened my Uncanny X-Men subscription issue to find I was reading the second or third chapter in a larger "event" about which I knew nothing until I got the issue. I mean, I'd heard about it, even posted about it here (which is the main reason I'm holding some of the PRs until closer to the actual release of the book), but I didn't know how it was going to go down or anything until the issue was in my hot, little hands. And I was pissed-off!
You don't do that to a subscriber; that is so fucking unprofessional! If you're going to do a crossover event with another title, you still bear the responsibility of giving the subscriber a full story every issue - whether that means a stand-alone story or the continuation of a larger arc within the title - you don't send out half of a book!
But, dirty pool aside, I honestly don't know where to begin with anything. I read New Mutants #9 and 10 so I would be caught-up on their story when I read #11 (Siege tie-in), only to open #11 to find out that an entirely other story had taken place sometime between issues #10 and 11! That is, I think... I have almost the entire run of the original New Mutants, but where do you draw the line, you know? I need to go back 20 years and read from there to know WTF is going on now!?
So over it. So completely over it.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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