Why Marvel Annoys me?

First, for the past year or so, whenever there has been a big event in a comic, like who will die in the Fantastic Four, or more recently being who the new Ultimate Spider-Man is going to be, they have been sending out information on Tuesday to news organizations so they can spoil it for all of the comic readers before they get to the store on Wednesday.

It is almost has bad if the night before a Harry Potter book came out, Rowling came out and told you what happens.  Except for some reason, in the comic industry, this seems to have been making sales stronger for these issues.   More people going to the comic shop to buy a book that they already know what is going to happen. Ultimately I think it is a ploy to cash in on the "Death of Superman" days, where everyone was rushing to comic shops to have a special collector's item to sell years down the line, but the comic industry is past that time.

Secondly is stuff like has happened in Fear Itself. As with most people, I'm tired of Marvel events. They seem to be happening every six months. This time however they put out a lot of promotional pictures, like ones I posted  before, and end up having nothing to do with the book at all.  The question is why. Why put this out? Why create the image at all? Why get people's hope up that Cyclops will become the new Magneto.

Neither of these two images had anything to do with Fear Itself, and these were the only ones which would have got me to read the book. Glad I stopped with issue one of Blackest Night Marvel Edition. More Fear Itself misinformation from Newsarama

Granted, these are just the two more recent issues, and there are actually a number more, but that is for another day.