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Crossovers may be earning less and less with each new one, but until it can be figured out just when we'll be hearing the last of them, still one more from Marvel is coming out next year, this one called "War of Kings":

That's the forecast the cosmic cabal of writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and editor of Bill Rosemann have given for War of Kings, a major Marvel outer space spectacular building through the remainder of this year and exploding in 2009. Tying together elements from major events including Secret Invasion and Ed Brubaker's work on UNCANNY X-MEN, "War of Kings" promises upheaval through the cosmos that will make even Abnett and Lanning's previous tour de force in ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST seem like an interstellar picnic.

Oh, I'll bet. All it's likely to do is prevent any believable and decent storytelling from being written. And when I see some of these "big" names credited to projects like these, I'm starting to think it just shows how desperate they've become, to the point of where they'll hire certain writers according to how well they think their names alone will be a draw with the audience. And that's one more reason why people need to wake up and realize that no matter who's writing the crossovers, it's the editors like Joe Quesada who're in charge, and it's more and more likely that they're doing everything according to how he wants it done. And that's why it's just not worth it to keep spending so much money on crossovers.

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