Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3085609-20130801181823/@comment-3085609-20130803095657

Look. In your answer just above you say, "many of its titles share a story and background" (which is utterly false) and then in reference to other events, "many other type of events have had tie-in titles with barely any true connection to THE main story". Your own words make it clear than an event has A main story. And you have claimed Marvel Now to be an event and you're defending that viewpoint. To be precise you have said "can be considered" which shows linguistically that you cannot validate the equation "Marvel Now = event".

What you describe ("What happened to the protagonist(s) after Avengers vs. X-Men, with mostly direct consequences from said event") isn't the background of a shared storyline, it's the natural consequence of a shared universe and isn't even accurate as I have already demonstrated and will further demonstrate.

A new post-event status quo isn't an event, otherwise every character would be in event mode. It's like saying all X-Men titles after House of M are an event because they share a common background of "what happened after the Scarlet Witch said no more mutants". An event is a story not just a background.

For instance, there are many comics that describe what happened to Marvel heroes after Secret Wars, some stemming from the event itself like Spidey's black costume, the break-up between Colossus and Kitty, etc, but these comics do not make an event.

Avengers has no relation with AvX. It deals with entirely new threats (Ex Nihilo, AIM) and follows from Cap's eviction from the Illuminati. All New X-Men is only indirectly related since its main theme is "what if the original X-Men traveled to the present?" Iron Man has no direct relation. His decision to go into space was from the end of his last series and from his appearance in Avengers Assemble. Legion wasn't even in AvX. Indestructible Hulk has no relation that I can see. So 1. your connections are very tenuous and are a small minority 2. you don't follow your own rule that an event has a main story 3. based on your use of words, you are aware of the difficulties in claiming it is an event 4. even your attempt to claim that "what happens to characters after an event is an event itself" fails on two other points: - The majority, even the large majority of Marvel Now titles aren't related to AvX. I count more than 20 Marvel Now titles that aren't related to it. - Marvel doesn't call "event" their post-event status quo. For example Marvel said of Dark Reign "Dark Reign isn't really an event; it's what's happening in the Marvel Universe." Shattered Heroes and Heroic Age are similar cases. Marvel calls Marvel Now an initiative, an opportunity to tell new stories with new creative teams.