I'd agree, except that I'm not sure I'd even give them credit for having the big events planned out in advance.

maybe "planned" is a generous word. i believe that what they have is not so much totally planned out events, but to-do lists. then they write the events around these to-do lists, like house of m was written around the to-do list item of getting rid of morrison's mutant boom.

i think hope was brought in to tick-off two (maybe three) items. un-doom the mutant race after the purge (messiah complex and second coming) was the first one.