>SAN DIEGO, CA – (BUSINESS WIRE)— March 25, 2019 – IDW Media Holdings, Inc. “IDWM” (OTCQX: IDWM), an integrated media company, announced today that it has initiated a review of strategic relationships and alternatives to maximize stockholder value and to realize the full potential of its vast content library and pipeline. IDWM has retained J.P. Morgan to assist in the review process.
>go woke, go broke hopefully no one. money should be spent on actually talented and passionate people. not a small click of sjws and feminists who only care about destroying franchises that white men like
Ethan Green
Anyone but Disney.
Ethan Bell
I don't think anyone wants more dead franchises, user.
Elijah Wright
Hama's GI Joe is still going on, I think?
Ryder Peterson
I think the part of the company that works on TV and movies is going to get shuttered if anything major happens.
John Hernandez
I only follow 2 IDW books: TMNT and Ghostbusters.
TMNT will be hitting #100 this year and that'll be as good a place as any to quit. Ghostbusters went to shit when they forced the 2016 characters into the main cast and I ducked out partway through the last unreadable miniseries. I'm going to check out the Anniversary one-shots for the main book, Real and Extreme (not 2016, duh) and try to give them another chance. Maybe the Transformers/Ghostbusters crossover, so long as the 2016 characters aren't in it.
I dropped their Transformers book when the entire thing became an LGBTQ lecture fest. Dropped GI Joe well before it also got to that point. Never followed any of the other Hasbro books. I wanted to get into their Godzilla comics, but the continuity was all over the place and they made it impenetrable as to what was a sequel to what and what was a separate canon and wtf to follow.
I never read ANY of IDW's creator owned stuff. They're the cartoon and movie licensing publisher, so far as I recognize them.
Dylan Cook
>I never read ANY of IDW's creator owned stuff Not even Locke and Key?
Xavier Nelson
If there was any comic company to buy out and subsume another comic company it'd be DC. But IDW is worthless. They largely publish licensed comics and don't hold the rights to any of them. The only original works they have the rights to are 30 Days of Night and Locke and Key, and even then they share the rights of those with their creators. IDW has NOTHING of value.
Logan Smith
>I never read ANY of IDW's creator owned stuff. They have creator owned stuff? I thought they just pumped out cheap crap based on 80s cartoons and toylines?
Ian Cooper
Dat ass, though.
Ian Hall
DC is a good candidate. They'd probably reprint Darwyn Cooke's Parker adaptations, although reprinting classic Transformers or Rick Veitch's books looks much more difficult.
Yep. Some of it is quite nice.
Nolan Cruz
>DC is a good candidate. No they aren't for reasons I outlined. The only thing they would get is licensed comics which aren't all that in demand for and would likely require renewal of an agreement with the license holders to republish. IDW fully owns no real IP that would make it worthwhile to buy them out.
If this was Dark Horse it'd be one thing. The Hellboy catalog alone might be worth it if they can come to terms with Mignolia for reprints. They'd also get their hands on Sin City, The Mask, etc. IDW has nothing.
Jeremiah Bailey
DC? IDW currently publishes Marvel licensed books like Star Wars and Spider-Man. Getting bought up by the Mouse seems likelier than DC.
Lincoln James
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Eli Howard
Buying IDW doesn't get you the Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters and Star Wars Adventures licenses. As in, it doesn't get you the books that actually turn something of a meager profit. All buying IDW gets you is shit like Wynona Earp, Locke & Key and 30 Days of Night (the first just got a cancelled TV series, the second couldn't sell itself as a TV series, and the third is all tapped out in terms of movies and media). And even then, the CREATORS own those franchises, not IDW.
IDW is a shell. They don't actually own any of the things they publish. There isn't anything TO buy.
Ryan Reyes
Don't tell me, tell the potential buyers.
Sebastian Gray
hamas has started doing the same "girls rule" sjw bullshit as well. even if you don´t care about feminism. seeing the same shit over and over again is boring as fuck. literally every modern female character is drawn the same way and acts the same way. masculine looking, fully covered up, no curves and a flat chest lookwise and personality wise an "totally awesome, touch woman who needs no man and who is smarter and stronger then any of those racist, sexist male scum" it´s so fucking boring. If just one comic would still be allowed to have traditional female characters who are pretty or even sexy, wear skimpy outfits and have an actual likeable personality and with flaws it would automatically have the most unique female characters of the last 8 years.
Camden Parker
When they hired back their co-founder who """""""''resigned"""""""" I knew they were fucked. And they deserve this. What an absolute joke of a publisher. I hope Image is next.
Jaxson Campbell
They hired a guy who talked shit about 9/11 widows to write a pro-Socialist G.I. Joe comic. And they were shocked when the few remaining G.I. Joe fans, the only customer base they had for their comic, didn't support it. Then they called their customers fascists, racists and sexists and did everything they could to keep Aubrey Sitterson on the Joe comic.
Why haven't they recovered? It's not like they made any mistakes.
Aaron Anderson
Infrastructure (that you're gutting). Also you can likely retain your license agreements if they remain "IDW."
Meh. It just means Hama will be forced to quit GI JOE again and SEGA will give up completely on Sonic comics.
Nicholas Cox
THEY DON'T OWN ANY IPs! WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE BUY THEM? THERE'S NOTHING TO BUY!
Mason Russell
IDW doesn't own ANYTHING. It's Hasbro that owns all the IPs.
Ethan Thomas
So this means G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is finally (and unfortunately) coming to an end, right? Because if they're looking to sell then it means they're shutting down soon, and no one else is going to publish G.I. Joe comics because it's a dead franchise.
see The company continues operating after being bought.
Thomas Anderson
People are still talking lies about the old writer of GI Joe ...
Jayden Perry
Can someone storytme Transformers #2 and Synergy?
Joshua Allen
BUT THE NEW OWNER WOULDN'T BE BUYING THE IPs, YOU FUCKING IDIOT. THEY'D JUST BE BUYING THE PUBLISHER, WHICH IS LITERALLY WORTHLESS.
Angel Flores
I feel like the logical buyer would be someone like Random House or Simon and Schushter. A mainstream publisher who could use IDW to expand their comics output.
Jace Evans
And said publisher has existing contracts to produce works for those IPs. These contracts don't expire just because IDW gains a parent company. The point of buying them is to take what they're doing well already and strip out the garbage part, which is cheaper than creating your own comics division.
Aiden Walker
Humble Bundle - get (almost) the entire IDW 2005-2018 run for $15!
There's another IDW Transformers Humble Bundle, and this time you can get very nearly the entire G1 run from 2005 to 2018 for a minimum of $15 dollars!
SEGA would probably just produce their own Sonic webcomic like they did with the Sonic Forces comic if the IDW thing ends.
Jayden Robinson
>www.allspark.com
Nice try, Willis. Hahaha
Jason Sanchez
I hope not their reprint section of the company is awesome, great newspaper strips like Terry and the Pirates, Rip Kirby, Agent X9 need to continue.
Xavier Edwards
This. As long as they finish Corto Maltese I'll be alright
Isaac Green
Imagine getting this worked up about things you don't understand.
Luis Barnes
I hate them for never finishing Jon Sable, and Grimjack
Luis Roberts
That wouldn't be so bad, actually, especially with IDW's classic comics reprints. You could always rebrand it and focus on that and foreign comics as well. Random House already does stuff like Everymans Library and helps to distribute Library of America if I remember correctly, so this would be a comic focused take on that. The tough part would be selling them on the market. Comic scholarship is on the rise though, so they could always be convinced they're on the ground floor of reprinting material of historical importance for future readers.
Caleb Ward
Disney
Chase Martin
Good, after they ran Transformers into the ground, they can rot for all I care. It was one of the most interesting books on the market, and they turned it into one of the worst ones.
The only thing they have of worth right now is TMNT, and it's amazing how that thing has been holding up well ever since the first issue. It's not the greatest book, but it hasn't had any sharp declines, it keeps true to itself, and the storylines are love-letters for the previous two decades worth of TMNT stuff. Only problem really is that the death of Slash wasn't as impressive as it was in the Archie run.
