Okay, I’m going to start a little earlier on your predictions than I planned, only because there’s a whole lot of them, and I don’t know what my schedule is going to be like for the rest of the week. As it is, even though I don’t plan on discussing every prediction, I’m still probably breaking this into two parts. Besides, the real fun will be going back to these predictions a year later and seeing who was right!

I realized I was going to come up with some predictions of my own, and…well, boy, I’m having a hard time coming up with some. I think DC will hold the $2.99 price through the year, because not doing so would certainly look bad for them, wouldn’t it?

Sales will continue to suffer on redundant books (i.e. the thirteen or so Thor mini-series, for example) but no one will learn any lessons from this.

Someone will put out a complete edition of William Overgard’s Rudy . (Hey, let a boy dream.)

A new Swamp Thing series will be announced by the end of the year, firmly planted (heh) in the DC Universe. And it will turn out to be awesome.

The rerelease of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Flex Mentallo in a new collected edition will be met with confusion and fear from the usual suspects.

And I think Wizard will end its print edition and move solely online…if it continues to exist at all. Unless the decision is made to relaunch with a New! Number! One! amongst much ballyhoo and a new, expanded price guide (which is the primary reason anyone asks for Wizard anymore, anyway).

Okay, on to your predictions: