Originally Posted by
jules
It certainly doesn't hurt to have something to sell from the current and ongoing continuity. Though if it was just that you'd think they'd have staggered the delayed books over different weeks, as a strategy to get readers into the shops, and possibly picking up something else from Convergence alongside a single ongoing release.
As it is, they all seem to be coming out in late May, so I guess they're being used as a soft lead back into the regular titles. Unless, of course, something in Convergence affects their actual content, but it seems a bit too divorced from ongoing continuity for that. I wouldn't expect to see any Convergence influences bleeding through until the September theme month. (Assuming that happens again this year, when we've already had a 2 month interruption, of course.)