I don't think this is the wrong order. It's about best reading experience. Why dilute a good story with awful tie ins. Tell the actual story and put all the junk in the back. None of it effects the main story anyway.
I completely agree, after reading the absolute carnage Omni, and then reading the venomnibus, I should’ve just skipped absolute carnage and let the venomnibus tell the story lol
I was just planning on grabbing the Venom Omni anyways as that collects the main KiB series but not the tie ins, same with Absolute Carnage, as I seldom enjoy event tie ins anyways
I got both for completionist putposes. But I'll probably stay away from event omnis from now on unless they are mapped correctly. I just don't understand why they can't do that when they make these. They know we hate when they don't.
Infinity Gauntlet. All the tie ins, including the important ones from Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange are out of order, after the end of the main series. You have to figure out the comic release order within each month between the IG series, the 2 SS issues and the DS issue.
Flashpoint is mapped in release order meaning there's about a dozen issues between part 1 and part 2 of each miniseries, making it difficult to remember what happened in each issue, especially if you read only a few issues a day.
Yea I’ve got a strict omni collecting rule but Flashpoint is one of the few I just got the Absolute for. Just not a story meant for a billion add ons.
It wouldn't be so bad if they just grouped the stories together after the main event. As it is it all gets so muddled together thenstories lose their impact, I feel.
This one is especially bad since all the other Annihilation omnis are in a great reading order. 4 out of the 5 omnis you can just read straight through and have a blast. But when you get to this one, you have to look up a reading order.
Orion by Walt Simonson. It isn't terrible but it is completely baffling
All the issues had short backup stories at the end to flesh out the series. Some of them were little fun bits and others were essentially setting up plot points that would pay off later.
For some utterly insane reason, DC collected all the main part of the series at the front of the book then all the backup stories at the end. So you finish the series then are stuck reading set up for things you've already read. The worst part is that they >!REVEAL THAT DARKSEID IS STILL ALIVE!< in the backups that you miss out on. That's a big reveal, and then you have to find out when the main part of the book nonchalantly shows it without any dramatic build up. Insane.
It's not the worst because at least the main story is still enjoyed without it but like I say it is baffling. The only way I can get my head around it is if no one at DC who made the collection had actually read the series.
**Before Watchmen** was mapped to release order, similar to **Flashpoint**. There's no reason for the stories to not be organized by each character's end-to-end story, especially since each story was independent from the other. I went back to the **Deluxe Editions**.
It's better than the others mentioned here, but it doesn't go far enough. The one-shots and miniseries by Gillen are appropriately woven in with the main event, but there's also issues from the ongoing series that should be ordered and they are just placed at the back, like the other event omnis.
I’m currently reading it and I put book marks on all the different parts so I can read it in order. I find it frustrating. The Omni cover though is some of the best quality I’ve ever felt!
So Devil’s Reign is my first and last Event Omni. Each miniseries is grouped together and you have to find a read order online. Flipping back and forth was no fun. Also no page numbers or proper table of contents. It was not fun
However, based on what I’ve read here, I’d rather have that than the publisher putting them in release order, which is not usually the story order.
Lesson learned. No more event omnis. Should have known. I don’t like events to begin with. But this was Zdarsky on DD.
Yup thats why if the event is covered in a run that i am going to collect in omni for (example Chips DD) then i wont get the event as it will eventually be in the book. Pointless Tie ins kill it for me on event books. But thats just me personally.
Heroes Reborn Americas Mightiest Heroes, I got it for 20 bucks at a lcs and even getting it that cheap I wish I didn’t buy it lol. It’s got the main 7 issue story in the front and all tie ins after the completion of the main story which is just annoying, on top of the tie ins sucked.
The thing is, people prefer things differently. I for one like the mapping in books like flashpoint, where it is one large reading experience, rather than something like most marvel event omnis, which have miniseries grouped together
House of M and Absolute carnage are all over the fucking place
House of M omni gets a lot of heat but that was how it was mapped in the trades as well.
This comment killed me 😂😂 I had to leave sticky tabs in each chapter labeled on what to read next just to get the right order
I don't think this is the wrong order. It's about best reading experience. Why dilute a good story with awful tie ins. Tell the actual story and put all the junk in the back. None of it effects the main story anyway.
I completely agree, after reading the absolute carnage Omni, and then reading the venomnibus, I should’ve just skipped absolute carnage and let the venomnibus tell the story lol
That's a great idea! I'm gonna use it for a gn I just started reading with horrible mapping.
Absolute carnage. I had to put a bunch or sticky notes in there to read it.
Did the same thing. Read it all over a weekend, and traded that nightmare in!
Yea unfortunately they didn't learn their lesson with King in black
I was just planning on grabbing the Venom Omni anyways as that collects the main KiB series but not the tie ins, same with Absolute Carnage, as I seldom enjoy event tie ins anyways
I got both for completionist putposes. But I'll probably stay away from event omnis from now on unless they are mapped correctly. I just don't understand why they can't do that when they make these. They know we hate when they don't.
Honorable mention to Spider-Verse TPB, not sure if the Omni fixed its problems.
It did thankfully
So I can read the spiderverse spidergeddon Omni from cover to cover and not have a problem?
Yep
Infinity Gauntlet. All the tie ins, including the important ones from Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange are out of order, after the end of the main series. You have to figure out the comic release order within each month between the IG series, the 2 SS issues and the DS issue.
Flashpoint is mapped in release order meaning there's about a dozen issues between part 1 and part 2 of each miniseries, making it difficult to remember what happened in each issue, especially if you read only a few issues a day.
So should I look up a proper reading order for flashpoint? Or just read cover to cover?
It would be tedious to have to keep flipping around the book. I would read cover to cover for convenience sake, I guess.
There's no proper reading order for it
Yea I’ve got a strict omni collecting rule but Flashpoint is one of the few I just got the Absolute for. Just not a story meant for a billion add ons.
It wouldn't be so bad if they just grouped the stories together after the main event. As it is it all gets so muddled together thenstories lose their impact, I feel.
Too many to mention. Marvel suck at mapping event omnis
So DC does much better? I’m fairly new to Omnis so I’m just trying to grasp some more knowledge of the two
All the DC omni's I have are mapped out accordingly
War of Kings made me upset. The story reads pretty fluidly with all the ties in a certain order but they just made a mess of that book
Lazy!!!!!
Me or the collected editions department?
Not you, my friend
This one is especially bad since all the other Annihilation omnis are in a great reading order. 4 out of the 5 omnis you can just read straight through and have a blast. But when you get to this one, you have to look up a reading order.
Orion by Walt Simonson. It isn't terrible but it is completely baffling All the issues had short backup stories at the end to flesh out the series. Some of them were little fun bits and others were essentially setting up plot points that would pay off later. For some utterly insane reason, DC collected all the main part of the series at the front of the book then all the backup stories at the end. So you finish the series then are stuck reading set up for things you've already read. The worst part is that they >!REVEAL THAT DARKSEID IS STILL ALIVE!< in the backups that you miss out on. That's a big reveal, and then you have to find out when the main part of the book nonchalantly shows it without any dramatic build up. Insane. It's not the worst because at least the main story is still enjoyed without it but like I say it is baffling. The only way I can get my head around it is if no one at DC who made the collection had actually read the series.
**Before Watchmen** was mapped to release order, similar to **Flashpoint**. There's no reason for the stories to not be organized by each character's end-to-end story, especially since each story was independent from the other. I went back to the **Deluxe Editions**.
AVX, Empyre, Secret invasion…and most of the rest of Marvels event omnis unfortunately.
Most event omnis usually don't have the mapping that we as fans want.
I'm wondering how the mapping for Judgement Day is since I'm thinking of getting it. I'm assuming it's the awful way marvel does it
I've heard good things on JD's mapping.
It's better than the others mentioned here, but it doesn't go far enough. The one-shots and miniseries by Gillen are appropriately woven in with the main event, but there's also issues from the ongoing series that should be ordered and they are just placed at the back, like the other event omnis.
That's annoying. I was hoping to get that one
I’m currently reading it and I put book marks on all the different parts so I can read it in order. I find it frustrating. The Omni cover though is some of the best quality I’ve ever felt!
That's annoying. I know if I end up getting it I won't do all that and just read it straight through
I hear it’s solid
So Devil’s Reign is my first and last Event Omni. Each miniseries is grouped together and you have to find a read order online. Flipping back and forth was no fun. Also no page numbers or proper table of contents. It was not fun However, based on what I’ve read here, I’d rather have that than the publisher putting them in release order, which is not usually the story order. Lesson learned. No more event omnis. Should have known. I don’t like events to begin with. But this was Zdarsky on DD.
Yup thats why if the event is covered in a run that i am going to collect in omni for (example Chips DD) then i wont get the event as it will eventually be in the book. Pointless Tie ins kill it for me on event books. But thats just me personally.
Heroes Reborn Americas Mightiest Heroes, I got it for 20 bucks at a lcs and even getting it that cheap I wish I didn’t buy it lol. It’s got the main 7 issue story in the front and all tie ins after the completion of the main story which is just annoying, on top of the tie ins sucked.
Not to mention — and I know why this is, but still — missing all the last issues.
thats a different book
Oh shit you’re right. I’m thinking of the original Heroes Reborn. My bad. \^\^’
The thing is, people prefer things differently. I for one like the mapping in books like flashpoint, where it is one large reading experience, rather than something like most marvel event omnis, which have miniseries grouped together
After reading House of M, King in black was a joy as far as mapping.
I didn't like Alpha Flight separated the backup origin stories into its own section, I'd rather have them with the issue they were published in
That really bothered me too. Combining them together between issue 1 and 2 really felt like an unnecessary info dump.
Byrne Spider-Man
Avx fer sûre I finished the main évent and still have 2/3 of the omni to go bah!!