Like you read to the end of a collected series and it ends on a cliffhanger... and doesn't tell you where it picks up. Like this is basic shit, i'm trying to follow a throughline here, i shouldn't have to dig into some obscure comics forum to find the answer

god knows the assorted x-men spinoffs are enough of a clusterfuck, you ought to at least have roadmaps

I know comixology was shit but i seem to recall it being marginally better than amazon about this (yes i confess im reading on my phone, i need something to read at work) but anyway, this is always a headache

Man, I got a friend who's a Ghost Rider guy?

Holy shit this pain is something he knows and speaks of

Truth is the only way to figure out where something picks up is to look at a character wiki and HOPE it has enough information cited that you can figure out the order

What series particularly are you looking for

i figured it out but i kinda got sucked into following betsy braddock's thing though Excalibur. i finished the first volume of Excalibur then picked up the next and it was clear there'd been a big-ass event and i'd just spoiled myself on its outcome

it was the x of swords thing, i ended up going through that and then the other volume of excalibur and it ends on a cliffhanger and doesn't say what series it picks up in, and it looks like it was another special, the knights of x

the shittiest part is how easy it is to spoil yourself on a storyline in looking for where to continue it

like the synopsis for one of the next parts will be some shit like "well a lot of things happened and these characters are dead! Crazy, huh!" and im like motherfucker there was no indication i was missing anything in between

anything even tangentially tied to spider-man seems to suffer from this too

learned that trying to follow venom

Oh

yeah the fuckin

Krakoa era is basically just

twenty god damn "of X" titles rolling into each other with some people off on their own shit and a Hellfire Gala every year

it is honestly fucking exhausting you kinda just gotta pick one road to go down and then swing back for events now and then, way bigger of an investment than it should be

Spider-stuff is actually NOT THAT BAD cause they all kinda are off doing their own thing and unless it's an event they basically ignore each other

including Peter's whole having multiple books thing

Venom however does have that problem especially during the fucking King in Black and the follow up series where its his son.

yeah i noticed that one. i also saw there were apparently two distinct venomverse deals and the first one just didn't even matter (also apparently gwenpoolnom got better because she showed up elsewhere, also also I SWEAR i saw gwenpool in one of these X books Gwen what the fuck are you doing there you're not even a mutant)

neither is Deadpool

but Deadpool is associated and Gwen I think is like friends with Jubilee or something?

yeah, though he has some technicality there at least

I mean

either way she does what she wants

also I didn't know about Gwen ever got Venomed

I know SPIDER-GWEN is Venomed

yeah fair enough i guess, though youd think she'd be smart enough to avoid those kinds of big events, that's where the cannon fodder gets culled

yeah but she's both in a weird form of duality, too popular and not popular enough to get killed.

true enough. Black Widow is symbioted too now apparently. but is it weird that of all the symbiotes running around i just want to read about the one that's a cat

kinda the only one that seems to have its shit together too

yeah i saw that in fuckin

the new Thunderbolts series

and I hate it cause she looks KINDA like what Venomed MJ looked like from Renew Your Vows and it just made me go "why can't MJ just have a symbiote"

I know Flash is currently Anti-Venom but idk if they're doing anything with him after bringing him back to life

he kinda disappeared, yeah