Pinching Our Pocket Books?

Unless you’ve been stuck under a rock you’ve been reading Marvel Comics BIG event this year, “Secret Invasion” and this week brought us one issue closer to the end.
Before we go any further in this I just want you to know that I AM enjoying Secret Invasion. It reminds me of those old body snatcher/alien invasion movies where everyone turns out to be an alien in the end, Love it. But after all of the fighting, explosions and shocking revelas I can’t help but feel that I’m missing something.
What I’m missing in this book is an epic story that our heroes deserve and trust me; I’m not saying that DC is doing that with Final Crisis. But with Secret Invasion we’re getting the same thing we got with Civil War; a main book that is full of fighting, but no back story to fill in the blanks. To do that you need to buy the 114+ tie in issues and the 5 or six miniseries that comes out with the main book. I just don’t want that anymore.
True, it doesn’t hurt my pocket book that much to pick up a book and try it out, but what about those of you out there who don’t work at a comic book shop or have the convenience of Marvel sending you preview copies. You’re screwed and forced to just read about a bunch of super heroes fighting, which I’m sure there are a few of you out there that doesn’t mind a story lacking structure, but COME ON fight fight fight, run run run, skrull skrull skrull does not make a full story.
Sure this is the next big thing and apparently to embrace change we need to spend a few hundred dollars on Secret Invasion, But what if Marvel embraced change? What if instead of forcing us to buy a hundred and something books they took the time to carefully place all the key plot points in the main book, instead of assuming that as comic fans we have an infinite amount of money to spend on event books.
I think what Marvel is missing in this event format DC is actually excelling on. Sure they have cross over miniseries to Final Crisis and sure they’re important to the main story, but look at this. DC took a SCHEDULED two month break during Final Crisis to give us time to focus our attention (and money) on a few tie-in miniseries that ARE important to Crisis. I’ll admit, when Final Crisis #3 ended and I realized I had to wait two months for the next issue I was upset, but they left books like Superman Beyond (by Morrison) & DC’s Last Will and Testament (By Meltzer) to take the main books place and they succeeded in furthering the story without releasing their main book and five tie ins at the same time (just counting the tie ins for Secret Invasion this week, That’s $15.96 just to read Secret Invasion this week Vs. Dc’s $3.99 For the one Tie in they put out).
So there, I said my beef. Secret Invasion started out as a good book, but then it turned into fighting and Oh this person is a skrull too, but we're not going to tell you how, we're going to make you buy this book and that book and then maybe you'll get the full story, but not till you buy the 4 issue miniseries that goes with it as well and the epilogue in Mighty Avengers/New Avengers’ Tie in.
Ok, maybe that was a bit of a run on sentence, but you catch my drift.