![]() Infinite Crisis had many tie-in issues in which either an O.M.A.C. ![]() Project, as well as DC's Countdown to Infinite Crisis one-shot. The Wonder Woman issue in question was included in the trade paperback collection of The O.M.A.C. Readers truly did need to read Wonder Woman to get the full story, which annoyed many fans. Instead, the only reference to the event during the main Mini Series was an incomplete flashback. Despite DC hyping the issue, most believed that it would merely be a Red Skies Crossover. One of the key plot points for both crossovers - Wonder Woman killing Max Lord to break his mind control over Superman - took place in Wonder Woman's own title. Project, a mini- Crisis Crossover that helped set the stage for Infinite Crisis. Usually, the characters had little or no knowledge of what exactly was going on in Thor, but on the other hand, none of them were bannered as crossovers - it was just a nod for people reading Thor. Averted when the Casket of Ancient Winters was opened during The Surtur Saga in The Mighty Thor, many other Marvel titles were smacked with impossible blizzards on top of what they are dealing with at the time.Oddly enough, Excalibur, despite having a main Inferno header on its tie-in issue covers (unlike Avengers which had a corner tab indicating its lesser tie-in status), didn't have any impact on the main story, and only served to strand the team in New York for a bit with Captain Britain's suit trashed. It seems odd that once they got Franklin back, the new Avengers didn't do anything further to fight the demons, though their priority was to get Franklin home, and Reed and Sue were living on Long Island at the time (as they'd retired from the Fantastic Four at the time), so it's at least possible that by the time the team got back to Manhattan, the X-Men and X-Factor had already wrapped things up. Issue #298 gave us an entire issue of Edwin Jarvis fighting off demonic creatures in Manhattan, and issues #299-300 dealt with a new team being formed to rescue Franklin Richards from N'astirh. One of the more significant tie-ins not directly related to the main story was in The Avengers, as the team had just dissolved in #297. In the original Inferno (1988) crossover, one of the first that Marvel Comics did involving all series in their universe, most crossover issues not directly connected to the X-titles featured minor content at best, or at worst, totally contradictory writing to the actual central story.In the television world, this is sometimes referred to as a crossover theme night. Red Sky, Take Warning is when the red sky is actual cause for concern within the story itself. ![]() See also Wolverine Publicity, Metaplot, and Cross Through. This, generally, is good for the book it appears in, getting it the extra readers from the crossover without having to derail its storyline because of it, but bad for the crossover overall, through dilution of the brand. For example, in Infinite Crisis, a squad of blue cyborgs would rampage through a few panels and then fly off, leaving the characters (and the reader) wondering what the heck that was before going on with the story. ![]() Since then, most Crisis Crossovers have had at least a few. Almost every comic in The DCU was involved, but in many cases, the "involvement" was just characters looking up and wondering why the skies were red before moving on with whatever they were actually doing. The name's taken from the original Crisis Crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. In some cases, the extent of the crossover is as nothing more than a Continuity Nod. When a comic slaps a big, visible " Crisis Crossover" logo on the cover, but has only a token Shout-Out to the Big Event that only peripherally affects the plot of the issue in question, that's a Red Skies Crossover. ![]()
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