What are tie-ins?

In capeshit comics, events happen. Events are big stories featuring tons of characters from almost all of the current books.

The event itself is usually its own book, usually something like a 12 part miniseries.

But all of the current books will have one or two tie-in issues that are also part of the event, and take place between issues of the core event miniseries.

How important, relevant, or necessary these tie-ins varies from 100% to less than zero. It is by far the most confusing aspect of modern American comics and it's not going away anytime soon.

The lesson is, don't fucking read events, and don't fucking read ongoings that have event tie-ins. Avoid that shit like the plague.

NEVER read comics until the run is over and trades are made. Never.

>>92989471
Trades have tie ins too though, I remember reading the Jeff Lenore Superboy trade and half way through there's this random doomsday issue that tied into a superman event and no other issue mentioned it before or after.

>>92989471
Yea, Magneto was decent until they ruined it with tie-ins.

He never really recovered.