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I'll chime in with a recent experience similar to that. I've been reading the Batgirl books lately and have had to not only keep multiple wiki tabs open at all times not only for the characters themselves, because for instance both Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown were featured in other books before their series occured, and were featuring in other Bat books while their series were running, but I've also had to ask questions in discord about the various events that were being tied into during the runs, and how those plots were affecting the book. like, did you know Stephanie Brown caused the War Games event? You wouldn't know it just by read cass cain batgirl, even though spoiler shows up often, and you wouldn't know it just by reading Steph Brown Batgirl, even though her dying and coming back gets mentioned a lot. Or how about the Batman Murderer plot that runs through a bunch of Cass Cain Batgirl, and it winds up that her dad was the person who set Bruce up, but that resolution doesn't even get mentioned in her own book until a couple issues after that plotline wrapped up in a separate Bat book. Even trying to read a singular run can be work and I can see how that might put people off