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Bleeding Cool: "IDW says they'll still be around at least another year"
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/idw-...-another-year/
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![]() As for the main IDW continuity, if it ever does look like it's over, I hope they get Tom Waltz back to give the series a proper conclusion. He deserves to see it off given he created the universe with Bobby and Kevin. |
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Oof... yeah, the Vol. 4 stuff would require at least 3 years out of IDW. Not looking good there! Maybe you shouldn't be selling your copies.
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Vol. 4 is most likely, since it's a short run, don't know how far along Adventures they are but perhaps not.
I doubt a conclusion is the thing on their mind, if anything they'd want to have a bigger cliffhanger type story or reboot so that more readers jump in, they just had somewhat of a reboot so.. Also their financials could actually worsen and be over before the year as well, it's not like that's the minimum guaranteed time. I wonder who will take the TMNT comic license, Boom studios? |
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They almost got the license the first time around. But let's hope for Dark Horse!
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Here's another article, basically they lost $750,000 when Diamond went bankrupt:
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/idw-...-mickey-mouse/ IDW is trying to create new original comic licenses that they own completely, since they mostly do licensed comics they don't get the full sales from like TMNT, Sonic, Star Trek, etc. Honestly whenever I read these articles I'm honestly confused how any comic company stays in business besides the top properties from DC and Marvel. |
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I am just glad we will get to see TMNT Battle Nexus comic because they said IDW will be around for at least one more year and this comic starts publishing in October 2025, it could be crossover between different TMNT universes and I still hope IDW will last more than a year
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Diamond is such a disgrace. The popularity of comic book characters in the past 15 years has skyrocketed. ****ing Ant-Man and Rocket Racoon are household names. There is no excuse for the state of the industry right now. At least 3 local shops have shut down near me in recent years, what a joke.
With IDW specifically, I know those licensing fees aren’t cheap but it’s crazy to me that TLR sells the way it does and they’re struggling like this. |
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Well - the Diamond thing is multi-faceted. So much of the entire industry's problems revolve around padding sales via Ratio Variants everywhere. Diamond sends shipments and as the industry relied more and more on ratio variant orders to get by, you had shops all over ordering titles in wildly uneven quantities often for no other reason than to land certain variants. All of that stresses a distributor at small fractures in the process as they have to match orders that used to be largely homogenized back in the day.
You really have to combine a lot of the information to glean the true picture and that's in conjunction with whatever internal information they have that we don't know about. Also, these things begin at the creative level. And so we have an industry that is a greater "household name situation" now more than ever before, yet that doesn't exactly translate into comic sales. As a matter of fact, the publishing industry is more confusing and less accessible than it ever was before given that everything is now a glorified mini-series and has been that way for at least 20 years now. Typical liberal thought processes there - "how do you expect anyone to jump onboard a comic with 300 issues behind it?", and the answer to their own ludicrous question is to relaunch constantly so there's no understanding of what you are looking at in the back issue bins anymore. The point is that the publishers have clearly relied on vertical expansion more than horizontal for years now. That means extracting more dollars from the hanger's on than it does delivering on offerings and new readers. That's the kind of business model that results in a cliff-like drop off of consumer behavior over time. All of that and I haven't even touched on the infiltrative identity politics that are absolutely an undeniable source of readership revolt - didn't even touch on that. Comic books are a f'n mess nowadays. Practically unrecoverable and almost all "growth" can be attributed to nostalgia-reprints or extracting more here and there from the hanger's on. And what's worse is that most publishers (most definitely IDW - we've seen it here on the forums) would actually come and deny this for their "social purity test" instead of addressing their business model. That's called "suicide by pride and ignorance". The first time I saw that depth of ignorance in the hobby was when Joe Quesada was EIC and many of his opinions were the foundation for what the situation has become - crazy too because I respect the guys business acumen and despise the hell out of his nonsense at the same time. |
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Yeah, I mean... I haven't even bought any comics in a while now. I think the last thing I bought was TMNT/Stranger Things and Ronin Book Two (which SUCKED).
I couldn't care less about that. But their TPB program would be amazing and all-encompassing. And their heart is probably closer to being in the right place overall with the property.
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Let's just hope IDW will last more than a year, TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures comic is also good
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Diamond was run so badly for so long, it only lasted as long as it did because they didn't have any competition. It was a house of cards that took a surprisingly long time to collapse. The upside of this situation is there is actual competition now, distributors who actually get books to their publishers on time. The free market will hopefully prevent publishers nearly collapsing when a distributor goes under in the future.
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It might be true that Marvel and DC are bigger comic publishers than any other company but in my opinion IDW is good comic publisher too because it has TMNT, Sonic and some other franchises even though they are mostly licensed to be published by IDW
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How in the world does just simply having certain licenses equate to quality?
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In rest on my comment I acknowledged they mostly have licensed franchises but you might be right but still I enjoy TMNT comics published by IDW, I mean Mirage Comics are good too but TMNT comics published by IDW are also good
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Based on the very article that started this thread, relying so much on license work is a big part of how IDW got into this position. If you rely on licenses, not only do you have to provide a kickback to whoever owns that license (Nickelodeon in the case of TMNT) but if you lose the license you can no long reprint any of it and lose access not just to new sales but also whatever income is being made through trades and hardcover sales in bookstores and such. They had the Transformers license for nearly 20 years and fumbled it fairly badly. Now a huge part of IDW's back catalog isn't even something they can sell anymore.
Just having the licenses isn't good enough, you need good creators on those books with good ideas and a firm hand to provide creative direction and to know when to make changes. When it comes to the Turtles I'm curious if they would even still have that license if it wasn't for the Last Ronin. The main series has been running for some time, but it sounds like outside of the 150 "relaunch" issue sales are not going well. Hopefully that turns around if for no other reason than I am really enjoying Saturday Morning Adventures and would have to see them lose this license as well and end up with that book cancelled. |
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I just want all of Mirage and Archie reprinted in books, is that too much to ask,
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Hmmm... well now I wonder if I'll see Alopex in the mainline comic again before IDW goes under... and given the level of character assassination she's already gotten... will I want to?
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