Hopes for 2018
>Towards the end of the year, Marvel under Cebulski does one last grand event revolving around the Silver Surfer, or maybe Quicksilver, which essentially returns them to Silver Age monster of the week storytelling with a rubber band continuity and maybe only 1-2 issues of genuine character development per year.
>They also get back into convenience stores and sales rocket, as kids who like the movies finally have comics that are equally goofy and fun to match.
>Speaking of which, Infinity war turns out decent, they do mini-retcons on some of the characters so they're not all Tony Stark, and the stupid quips are slashed away. The MCU becomes something like western Sentai, sure it's cheesy and formulaic, but it's a entertaining spectacle and keeps your kids quiet.
>DC just reboots their cinematic universe. The next Superman will be a "boy scout" once again, though it will have to motor through the origin story (much like 2008's Hulk did, because people had seen the Ang Lee one not long before).
>Bendis fucks up spectacularly at DC. He turns Robin into a nigger who Bruce Wayne goes gay foe, then Robin becomes trans or something. Even the SJW comics news sites mock it (though mainly because it's a (((white))) guy writing niggers). This backfires, from the SJW's perspective, by causing DC to implement incredibly harsh, "no sacred cows" editing on every script. A bunch of people huffily quit… and just get replaced, perhaps by talented newbies who don't mind having their scripts bashed into shape by experienced editors.
>2000AD's experiment at a one-off all-ages issue becomes a weekly, it's straightforward adventure stories without any English-bashing make it a hit with kids and adults alike, it vastly outsells it's parent comic, to the hilarious horror of the hip, Vice-reading fanbase.
>The new Roy of the Rovers has similar success, is unpozzed and has people lamenting that such clean-cut modesty and sportsmanship is rarely seen in the real game. Also they finally start reprinting the old version in year-by-year paperbacks.
>Oh and Titan, having missed the RotR boat, puts classic Dan Dare into print again. Have you seen the price of Operation Saturn?
>Diversity and Comics cracks 100,000 subs, a minor publisher takes a chance on his comic and, while the big two remain in pozzville, it cracks the top 10 on Comichron, to hilarious kvetching
>Solo kills Star Wars. Episode 9 is either announced as DTV or cancelled entirely.
Predictions for 2018
>Cebulski will be forced out / to conform and Marvel will continue to circle the drain.
>Infinity war cracks a billion in the opening weekend, but only limps to about 1.4 billion in total afterwards. A plotted graph of the dropoff is almost vertically downwards.
>Bendis fucks up DC, spectacularly. Critics acclaim his new nigger tranny faggot Robin as a "bold new direction". Detective Comics slips to Whor-level sales
>The new Roy of the Rovers is a pozzed mess. He might even be a nigger. If he isn't, an early plot will be about him helping to get a mudslime rapefugee on the team. Said rapefugee will speak perfect English and another White player will be surprised at seeing him praying somewhere, before being sassily put in his place. Might get an FTM tranny on the team, too. She will, of course, be the best player, and will also kick the asses of five hooligans single-handed, sassily putting Roy in his place as he arrives too late to help.
>The new pozzed Shadow will get a movie, this will obliterate anything about the original Shadow on search engines. An STD / Nurse Who-tier shilling campign will viciously shout down fans of the originals, calling them "coal commercials".
>Diversity and Comics self-publishes his comic on a PoD site. It will appear to beat a Big Two B-lister in it's first month. A bombardment of hate mail at the PoD site later, and it's CEO will claim a "system error" "may have inflated" "the figures for some books" and the sales of only that book will be slashed. His next issue will be found to "breach terms and conditions" and his account will be deleted.
>Solo kills Star Wars, Episode 9 is either cancelled, or made DTV