During part of the Roundtable discussion that I was part of today, we discussed solicits for the month of July. I read most of my comics as trades and as such, never really paid much attention to the solicits, as I didn't want to spoil myself for future story lines. Today it came to my attention the amount of tie-ins and associated issues that there are for some events. I think Caligula counted something like 17 for Flashpoint and around 24 for Fear Itself (it's ten of 6 am, I'll go back and count them myself later); so my question is this: how much is too much? How many tie-ins are too many? Whether they're issues that you don't have to read to comprehend the main story, or issues that are crucial to understanding the plot? Do the kill your interest in reading the story when you have to buy a large amount of issues that aren't really pertinent, but that fill in gaps? Or do they make you want to wait for the trades to be published (which is what I'll be doing)?