This is an unsustainable life for comic books. They can't keep going from big event to big event to big event with the characters either dealing with the fall out from the event or building up to the next one for the whole year. I suppose this does sell books in the short term, because there are people out there who try to get every book involved (like I did back when Infinite Crisis occurred at DC several years back), but ultimately this style of business caused me to drop comics all together. Not just a couple here and there over the course of several years, but all 20 or so books that I was reading at once. Cold turkey.
The fallout from Infinite Crisis (One Year Later) just made a lot of my favorite characters unrecognizable. Getting rid of Wally West in his prime (only to bring him back later), Grant Morrison turning Batman into a deadbeat dad, and the JSA getting like six new characters that I couldn't have cared less about. And the writing all suffered trying to accommidate these changes. The story lines no longer had any depth or heart, they were just trying to show all the changes and set up the next arc (Final Crisis, I believe). It's very sad.
