AVENGERS: STANDOFF works along the lines of something like BLACK VORTEX, but not as directly linear. Which is to say, there’s the kickoff ALPHA book, from which different events spiral off into different tie-in books over the course of the two months, some of which intertwine with one another. And then eventually everything vectors back down to the OMEGA book at the other end.

The intent here was to try to not force people to have to pick up absolutely everything. By that same token, we also have few enough tie-ins that there should only be one or two released in any given shipping week.