Deadlines for Subscription Changes
You may make changes to your subscription (by adding or removing titles) whenever you wish. These changes take effect immediately, with a few caveats:- Subscription pulls are generally locked in for a given week by that Monday morning. Changes made after this process is complete will not affect issues released that week, but they will affect books released in all subsequent weeks.
- Comic publishers have an order cut-off date several weeks prior to an issue's release date, at which point we have to finalize our orders. This is called "Final Order Cutoff" and is also consequential for cover selections. See below for more on that. We attempt to order enough extras to cover increasing demand, but if a title becomes very hot, and a lot of subscribers add it right before it is released, some customers may be backordered and get the issue late, and a few may not receive it at all. The list of Upcoming New Titles can help you stay abreast of new titles you might want to add in advance.
- If you remove a selection from your subscription (eg, by dropping a title), the change will not affect any issues that have already been added to your open shipment. We cannot remove issues after they have been pulled for your subscription, so please make sure to drop any issues you do not wish to receive by the Sunday before their release date.
- With regards to cover selections: due to the fact that we're required to finalize our orders with our suppliers about a month before release, we lock in your cover selections at that time. Bids for limited variants / retailer incentives are also confirmed at this time, although you may continue to enter bids after cutoff. For more information on cover selections and incentive bidding, see our detailed instructions here.