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What purpose does summarizing the tie-ins serve? What reason is there to list them? They contain no crucial information that would help a reader understand the plot. Plot summaries should be brief. This is Wikipedia policy. I realize that a few other "events" have extensively listed other tie-ins (not all of them, however--only recent ones), but that's completely beside the point. Why is it important to give extensive summaries of the tie-in issues? What information is being lost by not including them? Friginator (talk) 16:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The tie-ins are supposedly the side-stories that occur during the main storyline. I say that the tie-ins should be spared. Rtkat3 (talk) 6:57, April 8 2013 (UTC)
I agree with Rtkat3 that the tie-ins should be spared. However, I (partially) agree with Friginator that the tie-ins should not have extensive summaries; brief summaries of the tie-ins are adequate. Spidey10423:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The storyline is a crossover, and the tie-ins are just as relevant to it as the eponymous central miniseries. Other articles on crossover comics storylines, such as Secret War, Fear Itself, Civil War, Avengers Disassembled, House of M and Decimation (comics) detail events that occur in books other than the central miniseries, such as parallel events, repercussions, etc., so this one should be no different. Remember, this article is not just about the miniseries. It's about the entire storyline. Nightscream (talk) 23:30, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Including the tie-ins is fine with me. That said, the excessive detail of the plot needs to be scaled down. The Fantastic Four tie-in is fine at three lines. The Superior Spider-Man tie-in plot was originally (see 18:09 March 28, 2013 edit) 19 lines long! A summary should not be a page-by-page, panel-by-panel description of the contents of the comic. Sweet Valley High-meets-superhero slash fiction descriptions such as "Iron Man comforts him stating that it was worth a shot" do not belong in an encyclopedia article. The judicious use of pronouns rather than repeated use of character names (Otto does this, Otto does that) would be quite welcome as well. Mtminchi08 (talk) 02:21, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
