Along the lines of what I was saying earlier, Don MacPherson illustrates nicely the problem with Brian Michael Bendis’s tie-ins to Secret Invasion in New Avengers and Mighty Avengers:
You know, I’m really getting bored of these Avengers flashback issues that fill the readership in on what was really going on in these titles right from the start. […] It’s Elektra… does anyone really care when she went from being a human ninja warrior to an alien ninja warrior?
Exactly. We already know what happens. The backstory has to be very compelling to overcome the fact that its narrative tension has already been broken.