Thread:ADour/@comment-3085609-20130911085552

You keep trying to present Marvel Now as a common narrative event with heroes and villains as if it's a story. It isn't. Since you've given up on the discussion and just started to revert my edits without justification, I'm going to give you here the information you choose to ignore This is from the Comic Book Resources article of 5 July 2012:

"Those changes will be documented in the new Marvel NOW! initiative which begins in October and features new titles, new creators, new jumping on points for existing titles, and a new way of looking at an interacting with Marvel Comics."

Remark: As you can see, they describe it as an initiative, not an event.

"Alonso and Brevoort view Marvel NOW! as a chance to tell new stories in the Marvel Universe. That opportunity arose because many of the ongoing stories they've been building over the last several years come to a natural conclusion in "Avengers Vs. X-Men."

"'AvX' is very much an epilogue for the stories that we've been telling for the last 8-9 years. It effectively wraps a red ribbon around the era that more or less started with 'Avengers Disassembled' and 'House of M' and then carried through 'Messiah CompleX' and all of the big stories we've done since then," Axel Alonso told CBR News. "So when the story comes to a conclusion you'll see how it book ends and wraps up all these previous stories and leaves the Marvel Universe changed and ready for the future."

Remark: It's not the aftermath as you claimed (they never use that word).

"Fans of Marvel's cosmic and science fiction characters will notice that both Rocket Raccoon and Nova are featured in the first promotional image for the Marvel NOW! Initiative."

Remark: Once again, they call it an initiative not an event. They never call it an event. Or do you happen to know better than the Marvel execs what Marvel Now is? While it does take place after, its aim is not to be an epilogue to AvX. They say clearly that AvX is very much an epilogue to what came before, not as you pretend that Marvel Now is an epilogue (or "aftermath" as you put it).

"Alonso believes the best way to begin the next decade of stories was to continue to follow the simple formula he and his colleagues have been employing since their early days at Marvel. "The idea is that you take a great writer and artist that want to work together, give them some great characters and allow them to tell some great stories," Alonso explained. "So seeing the way that 'AvX' changes the Marvel U we decided we wanted to spice things up a bit and take some of our creators out of the comfort zones they've built for themselves over the last several years. We wanted to challenge them with taking possession of a title that people may not have thought they would write and partner them with a great artist and see what happens."

Remark: It's very clear here what Marvel Now is. It starts with artistic teams on titles, not with "let"s follow these threads from AvX". That's why you have writers who use some of AvX and most who don't to make a fresh new start. That's why the vast majority of Marvel Now titles have nothing to do with AvX.

The VAST majority of Marvel Now is totally unrelated to AvX (Morbius, Young Avengers, Thunderbolts, Thor: God of Thunder, Thanos Rising, Nova --whose first arc happens before AvX--, GotG, New Avengers, Avengers, Superior Spider-Man, Secret Avengers, Deadpool, Superior Foes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Red She-Hulk, JIM, Fantastic Four, FF, Avengers A.I., Avengers Arena, Fearless Defenders, Wolverine, Savage Wolverine--whose second arc occurs well before AvX--, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up). Only A+X and Uncanny Avengers are direct thematic sequels to AvX, along with Uncanny X-Men. Legion is less related (the character wasn't in AvX) but has a thematic connection. All New X-Men is only tangentially related (there was no mention in AvX of Beast wanting to get the past X-Men in the present and anyway that series isn't about Beast but about the original X-Men who had nothiong to do with AvX). Iron Man is only distantly related (the Voldi in Iron Man's second arc are a very minor connection and they're not in AvX). Hulk deciding to join SHIELD isn't from AvX either. All-New X-Men, Iron Man and Hulk are clearly what the Marvel execs said Marvel Now would be: new starts for the characters. You mix up superficial narrative bridging with aftermath.

There was anyway an AvX aftermath series. That was AvX Consequences. So stop trying to present Marvel Now as an aftermath event.

To establish that Marvel Now is an aftermath event, one would need to address the following points: - What was AvX Consequences then? - Explanations for why 2 Marvel Now series took place before AvX and why the vast majority of them are totally unrelated to AvX. - Explain why the Marvel Now tag was dropped in the middle of storylines in August 2013, including on those titles that deal with the aftermatch of AvX (A + X, Uncanny X-Men, Legion) - Provide the three-act narrative structure of that event. 