In comic book terms how would you catagorize the "Summer Event"?

This is a kinda off the wall question because I am back in comics again after a small hiatus and this kinda of hit me, so how would you describe this event if it were in a comic book if it was in your local shop? I figured the SSA's would be one of those "limited series" that spotlights one particular hero like if it was Secret Invasion: Thor, X-Men, Captain America, with it some how still tied into the main story. So how would this fit? One Shot perhaps?

Definitely a "One-Shot" story where the heroes literally find themselves IN the movie. As a part of some inter galactic test before the next Doomsday event in which heroes and villains must vomitoriously work together for a common goal.

A good old fashioned Annual.

A good old Silver Age imaginary story. Well, two of them.

Non-Canon? Along with the other Holiday Events? They're just fun seasonal things that aren't always on and have nothing to do with the overall lore.

Sure, why not?

Limited edition hologram cover with a free press-on tattoo included.

It's another issue with Mojo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(comics)

Mojo is probably the best
or Kitty tells a bedtime story
or danger room
or What If

Bat Mite.

i think of the event as something similar to the x-men's danger room. As a simulated holographic training exercise.

One word: Mojo!

the comparison that jumps to mind for me is an old x-men comic where kitty pryde is telling a bedtime story and works in all the x-men as standard fairy tale tropes. It didnt happen in cannon but its an amusing side story.

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Originally Posted by Xaphan Actually, at least one of the holiday event missions is definitely part of the overall lore. Reviving the Red Widow, which takes place during the valentines event, apparently really happens. She's standing beside Lord Recluse in Tyrants personal story. So hey, if one holiday mission can be canon, who's to say the others aren't, too?

two even, the mallus mundi, from the halloween event is in official lore.

EDIT: i see dug read that x-men too.

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One of those cheesy activity books based on a comic book property with colouring pages, puzzles, connect-the-dots, etc.

Good question. I think think "cheesy activity book" covers these wanna-be AE missions well enough.

edit: Comment below applies to Casino Heist part - forgot to mention that.

If I can just step away from comic books for moment but stay very much within the realms of comic book style stories, the Summer Blockbuster is very similar to an old episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation, The Royale, where the crew discover that the only way to escape the alien built, fake casino that they find themselves in is to play out the roles assigned to them.

That aside, in world with AE, isn't this how the movies would be?

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Not quite sure how this fits in, but there are posters advertising both movies in front of all the movie theaters. So the existence of the movies is presumably in-canon, the events themselves or the characters' participation in them is not.

A cheesy dream-sequence, perhaps? The character goes to the movies, then dreams about themselves and people they saw in Pocket D playing out the events? I suppose that's more a sitcom trope than a comics one, though. (And is it just me, or would the gladiator movie be really boring to actually watch?)