Used to skip every issue with a tie-in crossover, now I track them down on purpose

For years I refused to read any crossover tie-ins because they felt like cash grabs that broke up the main story. Then a guy at my local shop in Austin told me the Secret Wars tie-in for Spider-Verse actually fixed a plot hole from the main run back in 2015. Has anyone else had a tie-in issue that completely sold you on a storyline you hated before?

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james_bell16d ago

@rowanhernandez same here, it really changed how I saw the whole event once I found that tie-in.

hugos4616d ago

Tie-ins almost never fix the main story though... they just add more noise to an already bloated event. Secret Wars worked fine on its own, you didn't miss anything crucial. The Spider-Verse book was just another dimension hopping side quest that didn't change Doctor Doom's motivation or the big Reed Richards reveal. If you needed a separate comic to understand the main plot then the main plot was poorly written in the first place...

rowanhernandez16d ago

Oh man, you just hit on something I think about a lot. So what was the actual plot hole that the Spider-Verse tie-in fixed? I gotta know because I remember being confused by something in the main Secret Wars story but I never bothered with the tie-ins. I had the same attitude as you back then, thought they were all just filler. But now I'm wondering if I missed stuff that actually made the main story make more sense. Did it change how you felt about the whole event or just that one character's arc?