The Final Death Blow For IDW Is Here
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- IDW Media has suffered from financial difficulties for years. And it appears the final death blow for the company arrived in the form of Diamond Comics Bankruptcy. IDW Publishing has suffered multiple round of layoffs over the last several years. The loss of Hasbro's G.I. Joe and Transformers properties and Star Wars comics. Wes explains how IDW's years-long death spiral is likely coming to a conclusion at the hands of Diamond Comics. The final death blow for IDW is here.
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IDW deserves to go under for what they did to Transformers, G.I. Joe, et cetera, (even Godzilla has had problems there).
The sooner the company is gone, the better.
The rough part is that lack luster talent will likely find a home at Marvel, DC, or Image as it has been a game of musical chairs with comic books for at least the past 15 years.😅😅😅
@@ComicBookMuscle The comic industry has always been like that (though it has gotten worse), it's a small club and no one else is allowed within it.
G.I. Joe and Transformers are doing better now with sky bound
IDW just need to stop with all the Variants and spend some of that money on the art going in on the inside of the comics
For the longest it seems IDW has just been proving grounds for new incoming talent and licensed properties. I agree getting the talent on the interiors would go a long way it’s probably too little too late. For a while when Dan Mora was hitting on Power Rangers that was my favorite book for a while.
Preach!
Heather Antos, Heidi McDonald, and all the other idiots who have contributed to the downfall of comics should be kept out of
The Milkshake Mafia butchers another comic company.
That's both a dramatic oversimplification & wrong.
Badly written comics have little to do with how sick the entire direct market system really is.
I'm not sure any indie post 1996 has truly turned a sustained profit.
The collapse of newsstands & pussyfooting on committing to digital/trades is cause no 1.
IDW has never had a home grown property that anyone actually wants. Self financing 4 seasons of mediocre TV was the self inflicted gunshot to the guts.
I see the pendulum turning on them hard from here on out.
We need to get woke women out of comics, movies, and tv. Just tell then to go write novels on their own (and fail because nobody likes their crap). In fact, comics, movies, and tv shows shouldn't hire ANY writers who haven't written novels. That should keep the woke out, because they're a bunch of lazy turds.
@@suranae Wait, IDW was subsidising TV? What, The Hub? I thought it kind of odd that when old IPs got shows on that network, they also got runs from IDW...
Remember when those transformer comic's got really bad, that started around 10 years ago.
You’re lucky Skybound brought them back in a good way
IDW closing shop may be the best thing to happen to Ninja Turtles and Star Trek. Bad editorial decisions, questionable hiring, hateful customer service, etc.
So Heather Antos will be at Dynamite comics next then back at marvel or DC??
This is one of the glaring problems with the industry in my opinion.
I don't think so. There's a major culture shift happening, but we will see.
Heather Antos would definitely show up at Dynamite, if only as a "cover D cosplay variant" to an upcoming issue of Red Sonja.
@@MutantGenius Heather's put on a bit o weight. I don't think she could land that gig now lol.
@@jaylucien669I haven’t really seen a culture shift at the publishers at all, but they lack money and Antos hasn’t exactly the best reputation either.
Great video! This is the best explanation of this issue I have seen so far, thank you for explaining the details.
Still remember all the other IDW videos talking about it’s downfall for years. ClownfishTV did the same. But I thinks it’s starting to shutdown for real this time.
It was just announced today that The Artist Edition line at IDW has been moved over to Skybound.
Considering the way IDW has been hemorrhaging money year after year I'm honestly amazed it has lasted this long. When was the last time they actually turned a profit?
I just started collecting last year, one of my series is the hardcover Sonic books. Do you think you something like this risks completing the print run for these types of books?
Looking at IDW 1st run on Transformers, with trans Transformers or the disease that they put in their previous TMNT run or the TMNT and Naruto crossover, etc. i am not surprised IDW isn't doing good. But same time Last Ronin was pretty good..
The IDW Sonic is kinde meh (especially compared 2 end run of Archie Sonic run), but that is partly Sega's fault with their mandates on characters
I wonder if the demise of IDW will end Heather Antos' involvement in the comic industry? We can only hope.
What matters most to me is the licenses for TMNT, Sonic, and Godzilla. These are all viable properties that do make money. So if they were to fall into the hands of other competent publishers that would be acceptable to me. If IDW goes away well there will be another company to come along and take their place. Too bad, as they had the opportunity to become something, but ruining viable properties like GI Joe and Transformers showed they just didn't understand the properties and the audience for them. WTF20.
I think IDW is basically how the entire comic industry is acting. They've had a serious problem for a long time, and you can't force people to buy books. They probably should have down sized severely, but even then it was probably not going to save them.
There have been several great small publishers that couldn't survive when sales were better. First and Eclipse had some great indie titles, yet both companies folded.
The reality is most people go to LCS for the big two, and may pick up an indie here and there. But indie titles aren't always better the any random Marvel or DC book. The Ultraverse wasn't horrible, but not amazing. Each title was like a random Marvel book, so it wasn't shocking when Marvel bought the line.
I think the business model was to pretend it wasn't an emergency, and hoping to get more investors, and thinking it would last until every died, or maybe won the lottery. O would think any competent person would have left the company years ago, so everyone let was an idiots just pretending they weren't burning down. Like a gambler with a lot of debt they were living day by day, with no real plan on dealing with the debt.
The books weren't selling, how do you get normal people to buy mediocre over priced books? That's the problem the entire industry can't solve. The gofundme crowd gets by with a few customers and with a cult mentality passed on the creator. Normal people wouldn't buy these books if they were in LCS, imo.
Now that they aren't getting any more USAID money DC and a lot of other publishers are in question
The only good book consistently has been SaturdayMorning Adventures TMNT. I’d be sad if that book was gone, but they’ve destroyed the main book, so I get it. IDW needs to be done.
Yeesh 😬 bummer for them
Oh my God. I just went to look something up on the IDW website. I discovered 2 things. One, websites still exist…
Who knew?
Two, holy shit, IDW officially has the worst logo I’ve ever seen. Why the hell did they even change it. The old logo was fine. “IDW” in capital letters. Simple. Direct.
It’s a really bad sign when a company that has business relationships with hundreds of artists and graphic designers can’t figure out how to design a logo.
You have to see this shit. The new logo is just a capital “ID.”
At first, it’s confusing. Like, “Am I on the correct website?”Then, if you look closer, the letters are actually split in half, horizontally. The lower half of the “ID” forms a “W.”
Thus, “IDW.”
That nepotism exemplar probably got drunk and drew it on a cocktail napkin. No one had the guts to tell him it’s not as clever as he thinks it is.
The old IDW logo was so great, it was literally COPIED as the logo for a local interior design company here in Malaysia for several years before they finally changed their logo.
I really hope that Walter Simonson can place his 'Ragnarok' series at another publisher.
I believe he placed it at a new publisher called Act IIII, but they haven't released anything yet.
I can't believe John Byrne was wasting his talents drawing Star Trek books for IDW...😢
Last time IDW was destitute, they managed to get a 5m cash infusion from what I assume was the dumbest investor ever. Who knows, it might happen again.
Been worried that IDW is never going to actually publish the Neal Adams Artist Edition, but Scott Dunbier just assured me its at the printer.
IDW lost all its IP. What do they have now?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) and Star Trek still?
I think IDW only kept the Star Trek and TMNT licenses because they were desperate enough to massively over pay for them.
I'm baffled why anyone would have invested in IDW. They don't own anything that's worth the money.
If IDW bankruptcy i don't see his new TNMT series published here in Brazil anymore. I hope that IDW can save himself of this.
Let’s go comic book industry-get it together
Once upon a time IDW represented a significant chunk of my pull list (second only to DC) thanks to Transformers, X-Files, 30 Days of Night, and Angel. I was one of those that preordered 30 Days of Night # 1 back in 2002.
I haven't bought an IDW comic in years after they lost the Transformers license... and even then I had stopped enjoying those comics anyway as it had devolved into unreadable dreck and was buying purely out of momentum.
Nevertheless, it is sad to see how far IDW has fallen when it could have been a contender as it was easily outdoing Dark Horse and BOOM! in its heyday.
I have an idea
If I were to start a new comic book called company , I would call it " Not woke comics"
Sure fire hit
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Would like to see Fantagraphics or Image take over the library of America line, get Tarpe Mills Miss Fury Sensational Sundays back in print.
I just had to see what IDW did with Transformers to know enough about it.
They started well because I like their Bayverse prequel comics, but they really hurt the franchise with their woke nonsense.
So are any IDW comic books worth anything? Back issues will now be dollar bin books?
If it weren't for the Owner, IDW would have vanished back in 2017. That's the only reason it's around. They lost 92% of OPERATING REVENUE. Not profit, but money they needed to run the company was gone!
IDW financial problems might be more self inflicted due to woke storylines. I think the Diamond situation gave them a good reason to bail out if they were losing money anyway.
So how we get books that IDW sell?
That’s all I Stan cause I cannot stand no more.
Now’s the perfect time for you time buy them up with all of that RUclips fortune you’ve made. The iron is hot just waiting for you to strike.
I am pretty sure Wes is making more of a net positive than IDW ever can reach at this point. Certainly Not a fortune anyone with a brain would risk on IDW.
Hilarious
If IDW collapses, who do you all feel would best carry on the TMNT titles and why?
Titan? They've done well with Conan.
Skybound
You can laugh at me for saying this, but the only thing I'm buying under IDW right now is Monster High, and that comic is ending early this March. After that, I'm out. I knew the writing was on the wall when I saw their logo changed (and it's a bad design).
Just when their TMNT run is getting interesting.
Don't they still have the Sonic IP? Man, that better get picked up somewhere else.
I have faith that Sega will take good care of the Sonic IP
Idw pls transfer your IP to skybound