Every era of comics has its trends. Some stick around because fans love them, while others wear out their welcome.

Is there one trend you're ready to see disappear? Constant relaunches? Variant overload? Event fatigue? Characters never staying dead? Something else?

For me, I'd be happy if publishers slowed down on the constant #1 relaunches. I like following a series without wondering when the numbering is going to reset again.

What about everyone else?

Charactersnever staying dead.

Constant relaunches, I think. Magik has really had too many, when she could've just... had one ongoing.

The current trend now seems to be everyone trying to jump on the success of Absolute with a darker relaunch. Not going to work for everything!

4 hours ago, saperry said:

The current trend now seems to be everyone trying to jump on the success of Absolute with a darker relaunch. Not going to work for everything!

Agreed. I'm curious to see how Marvel's Midnight Horror Universe will do.

Im so sick and tired of all the different variant covers that they pump out to sell the same comic 20x over. As someone who has nearly completed compiling a collection of every Doom cover ever printed, with the exception of the early FF covers and ASM #5, someday..lol the overwhelming push by marvel to spring Doom into the public eye with the hundreds of recent Doom covers and still going I might add has almost made me give up on the entire endeavor. Remember when kids bought their favorite comic when it came out at the local comic shop, now we have 20 variants for the same issue for as long as they can get away with it just to make a buck. It cheapens and ruins the hobby in my opinion. Just with the recent one world under Doom series and all of the variants that followed, do the math it has been ridiculous, I thought I was gonna have to take out a second mortgage all for books that undoubtedly won't be worth squat 20 years from now because of the high print counts but oh well, maybe peach momoko will become president someday and it'll all pay off after all..lol

The thing that bothers me the most is "brand synergy." Marvel does that a lot. Changing comic book characters in senseless ways just to echo the MCU.

14 hours ago, DomVonTomb said:

Im so sick and tired of all the different variant covers that they pump out to sell the same comic 20x over. As someone who has nearly completed compiling a collection of every Doom cover ever printed, with the exception of the early FF covers and ASM #5, someday..lol the overwhelming push by marvel to spring Doom into the public eye with the hundreds of recent Doom covers and still going I might add has almost made me give up on the entire endeavor. Remember when kids bought their favorite comic when it came out at the local comic shop, now we have 20 variants for the same issue for as long as they can get away with it just to make a buck. It cheapens and ruins the hobby in my opinion. Just with the recent one world under Doom series and all of the variants that followed, do the math it has been ridiculous, I thought I was gonna have to take out a second mortgage all for books that undoubtedly won't be worth squat 20 years from now because of the high print counts but oh well, maybe peach momoko will become president someday and it'll all pay off after all..lol

Yes and it's almost impossible to keep up with all of them! I used to try to get as many Doom covers as possible as well, but it's completely overwhelming and takes up too much space. I feel bad for the completionists.

9 hours ago, Marco Vito Oddo said:

The thing that bothers me the most is "brand synergy." Marvel does that a lot. Changing comic book characters in senseless ways just to echo the MCU.

Yes! I haven't even really thought of that, but you're right. I actually prefer comic book characters to be different than the live-action versions. You can do so much more with comics than you can with movies.

Please realize I grew up with Thanos and Phoenix being the scariest super-dupers(and the big guy Galactus)

But I think maybe ramp down from the omnipresent Omega thing. The “wow” is getting a little diluted with SO many.

I guess I just miss the Punisher kicking the crap out of Jigsaw every now and then.

Legacy stuff. Give characters their own identities.

On 7/27/2026 at 11:07 PM, Pluckynotplucky said:

Please realize I grew up with Thanos and Phoenix being the scariest super-dupers(and the big guy Galactus)

But I think maybe ramp down from the omnipresent Omega thing. The “wow” is getting a little diluted with SO many.

I guess I just miss the Punisher kicking the crap out of Jigsaw every now and then.

I feel the same. Not everything has to be connected to a huge cosmic force. Sometimes it's nice to just stay street-level occasionally.

I actually like characters never staying dead, to the point where any time they do stay dead it kind of upsets me.

Sick of the relaunches and Marvel or DC starting over with #1s.
Just stick to a launch and have it keep going like originaly.

22 minutes ago, FrankCastle1969 said:

Sick of the relaunches and Marvel or DC starting over with #1s.
Just stick to a launch and have it keep going like originaly.

I agree with this. It seems they have a new #1 every time I go to the comic shop. I used to try to buy the #1s but there's literally too many these days lol

Yeah as everyone has said already - never staying dead and constant relaunches is tiring. Like I have absolutely loved FF since Ryan North took over - they relaunched it in the middle of the Emperor Doom story and they promised you would understand why and 15 issues into the relaunch and I still have no idea why. North is still writing it.

2 hours ago, Drewr15 said:

Yeah as everyone has said already - never staying dead and constant relaunches is tiring. Like I have absolutely loved FF since Ryan North took over - they relaunched it in the middle of the Emperor Doom story and they promised you would understand why and 15 issues into the relaunch and I still have no idea why. North is still writing it.

I've been enjoying the new FF series as well. I'm a few issues behind but plan to catch up. It's one of the few titles I keep on my pull-list.

On 7/22/2026 at 8:35 AM, Marco Vito Oddo said:

The thing that bothers me the most is "brand synergy." Marvel does that a lot. Changing comic book characters in senseless ways just to echo the MCU.

Yes! This is why Marvel comics have fallen off for me.

10 hours ago, NinDiego_64 said:

Yes! This is why Marvel comics have fallen off for me.

I've been reading a lot of Image comics and Ghost Machine lately, have you tried them? They have so many great titles.

22 hours ago, FantasticJerome said:

I've been reading a lot of Image comics and Ghost Machine lately, have you tried them? They have so many great titles.

Oh for sure. Void Rivals, Battle Beast, Something is Killing the Children and Lost Fantasy are in my pull list right now. (Replaced the X-Men books)

On 8/26/2026 at 8:10 PM, FantasticJerome said:

I've been reading a lot of Image comics and Ghost Machine lately, have you tried them? They have so many great titles.

Ghost Machine books have been my favorites this past couple of years - especially red coat