

They go out roughly three months before titles hit shops, so that local comic book stores can make their pre-orders well in advance of release. For those of you who don’t follow the industry obsessively (and maybe only read Saga and stumbled to this page via curious Google search), solicitations are comics retailer/reader parlance for previews of what’s to come. In late September, Image Comics released its December 2020 solicitations.

We now know that that guess - sorry to say - is wrong. In March after industry-wide distribution shut down during the pandemic, I posited that Saga would be back by the end of the year, riding in to save flagging sales for the small network of comic book retailers across the country. By Zack Quaintance - When is Saga coming back is a question that continues to hang heavy within comics, and in recent weeks we got a clearer answer - Saga is not coming back this year, as sad as it is to say that.
