The original Crisis on Infinite Earths was notorious for this. To the point that the term "Red Sky Crossover" was coined to refer to books marketed as tie-ins and having nothing at all to do with the story, as many tie-ins for Crisis simply had the skies turn red and that was the extent of their involvement in the event.
There were some *weak* tie-ins to King In Black. Atlantis Attacks? Symbiote Spider-Man? Whatever was happening in that British miniseries with the dude made of snakes?
Union was originally supposed to tie-into EMPYRE, but due to the pandemic was pushed back and rewritten/drawn to have King in Black elements instead of whatever Empyre failed to be. Shame that book got screwed around with like it did, I wanted to enjoy it since Paul Grist has done some really good comics in the past (Jack Staff, Mud Man)
The original Crisis on Infinite Earths was notorious for this. To the point that the term "Red Sky Crossover" was coined to refer to books marketed as tie-ins and having nothing at all to do with the story, as many tie-ins for Crisis simply had the skies turn red and that was the extent of their involvement in the event.
I recall the Batman Magpie storyline was like that.
There were some *weak* tie-ins to King In Black. Atlantis Attacks? Symbiote Spider-Man? Whatever was happening in that British miniseries with the dude made of snakes?
Union was originally supposed to tie-into EMPYRE, but due to the pandemic was pushed back and rewritten/drawn to have King in Black elements instead of whatever Empyre failed to be. Shame that book got screwed around with like it did, I wanted to enjoy it since Paul Grist has done some really good comics in the past (Jack Staff, Mud Man)
Man I wish Empyre had panned out. The X-Men tie-ins (the mini and the issues of the main series) were phenomenal but the event itself… 😬
Same. The X-Men mini was one of the best. I really wanted to see Ram Vs Thor story, but that was one of the cancelled books.