Script and graphic design by Jonathan Hickman. Which brings us to today’s topic… Infinity #1 of 6 However, much like big news events, sometimes comic events are a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, and after all the breathless coverage you wonder what the big deal was. These limited-run titles signal the arrival of a massive, world-altering story too big in scope to contain in a single 22-page issue. A big news event is the kind of thing that causes TV networks to break into their regularly scheduled programming with an update from the national news bureau, and might keep you refreshing Twitter or CNN all day long.Ĭomic books have the equivalent in line-wide event books. Some people devoutly collect each one, while others only buy stories with their favorite characters or creators.īoth in news and in comics, every once in a while there is a big event. They just keep happening, issue after issue, while comic book publishers find new things about them to hype every month. Others just tune in when there is a big story to report on. I haven’t seen it for over a decade, but some people watch it daily. Whether a day is exciting or not, or whether you care or not, your local nightly news will find something to say about it. Monthly comic books are a bit like the local nightly news.
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