It was the first new comic day of 2018 this past Wednesday!
Marvel has me flummoxed a bit lately, in the sense that a bunch of titles I've enjoyed were confirmed to be cancelled over the holidays - but always by the creative teams (mostly writers). Luckily a few books that have debuted recently have been incredibly strong IMO - the Phoenix Resurrection series and the Rogue & Gambit miniseries. And Marvel has already started teasing at April solicits with the announcement of a new Exiles series from writer Saladin Ahmed (writer of the Black Bolt series).
I kind of wish comics could somehow better coordinate these cancellation and debut announcements - like how TV networks do upfronts, but on a more regular basis. Maybe quarterly? But comics in general could be marketed so, so much better so that's a whole other discussion.
I took a machete to my pull list, reducing it from 41 titles to 17 for 2018 -- though I'll be following an additional 10 through Marvel Unlimited, which will mean reading them after a 6 month wait from the initial release date. I also got a Hoopla membership to read comics online, though I'm disappointed that my library system limits me to 2 Hoopla borrows per month. I don't get why the limit is so low, it must have to do with cost to them charged by Hoopla? Either way, 2018 is seeing a big change in how I read and collect my comics.
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