What a crossover week actually dumps on a collector

A crossover week is a cluster, not a thicker Friday. Several Marvel NFT comics can wear the same event banner while only two of them carry plot connective tissue. The others are one-shots that borrowed the logo because the week was noisy and the listing copy had a field for “event.”

The desk waits until the last related drop we can confirm has landed. Writing in the middle of the cluster produces heroic-sounding unfinished sentences. After-action coverage then names the banner, lists participating titles, and marks banner-only reprints without sneering at people who still wanted the cover.

Reading order is mentioned only when the listing copy or a publisher notice printed one. Guessing an order from character costumes is fanfic. Collectors in Leeds already argue enough in person; the recap should not add a fictional spine.

If you are keeping a ledger, tag the cluster with one event name and still give every issue its own row. Collapsing a week into a single line is how connective issues disappear between two homages.