No print/digital comics starting 4/1

If companies can't survive without overshipping titles that won't sell to comic book stores to inflate their numbers then they deserve to die off.

Seems like thy want to show solidarity with comic stores because they know that's where the vast amount of their already meager income is from. I don't think these smaller publishers can survive the switch to digital. I'm not even sure DC and Marvel can

I understand that reasoning, but this all boils down to whether those 2~3 months of purchase orders still in play are honored. If Diamond says "we're going to cancel those open POs, everything is going to be resolicited," then they're fucked either way, and they'll be looking at a month or more of no revenue stream.

A thought: Both Marvel and DC live under the umbrella of massive multi-media corporations. Couldn't they go dormant and have their parent companies restart them when the pandemic recedes?

For the indy companies, I dunno, we're probably looking at closures and buyouts, but I don't see the doom and gloom for the big 2. Disney and Warner Bros. aren't going to let the companies that keep so many of their copyrights in play go under.

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I'm guessing the High Republic will not launch this year

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IDW's not coming back from this are they

>Couldn't they go dormant and have their parent companies restart them when the pandemic recedes?
No because they would have nowhere to sell their books.
It's a miracle IDW still exists at all. I had no idea they had that much money to lose in the first place

>Couldn't they go dormant and have their parent companies restart them when the pandemic recedes?
I'm not sure that's the right way to look it. They're not going away. The decision they have to make is whether they allow the shutdown to reshape their publishing schedule or not. If they do, then they effectively go dormant. If they don't, they release digitally first then catch up later in print in a way that is palatable to retailers. A lot of considerations, but again, this depends on what's going to happen to currently open purchase orders.
Think about this. If everything just gets pushed back, that's a few months lost for the publishers. If they try to get back on schedule, then retailers and readers are faced with a flood. Scrapping the orders and doing digital now would prevent the extremes.

DC has decided to go fuck it and continue to release digitally.

IDW produced some of the worst Transformers and G.I. Joe comics I've ever seen in my life. Bury them.

They'll be fine.

>this makes no sense. there is no reason they could not continue to produce digital comics.

They would be putting in nearly the same work effort for 10-15% of the sales. It would be very very shit profit margins.

Based DChads.

>The smaller companies probably don't have the resources to stay running without physical sales. I think they're trying to stay alive by selling trades to book stores/online.
How does this even work? Shouldn't cutting physical publishing cut expenses and risks associated with printing more than there is a demand for? Or do they rely on selling more copies than there's actually a demand for since stores buy in batches?

IDW is already having a problem paying freelancers. This will end them.

>Shouldn't cutting physical publishing cut expenses and risks associated with printing more than there is a demand for?

Not that poster, but here's the dirty secret about smaller publishers: without the print publishing service they provide to the creators, they're redundant. Most small pubs pay a paltry advance if anything, and do very little effective marketing. They exist solely to front capital for printing, and to ameliorate the cost of publishing, something most of them don't even do very well.
Creators are not employees. They're the clients of these publishers, and without print, they're going to notice they're not getting their money's worth.

TMNT and related comics, The Kill Lock, and I Can Sell You a Body all prove you don't know what the fuck you're talking about

Ever since comics went all SJWs they have stopped making money. Now if they can’t even spread their propaganda to stores there is no reason to run them

>TMNT.
not that user but those comics were only good to an extent before they fell off. So no...

Welcome your new overlord webtoons

As if anybody wants to read their censored feminist garbage.
All their money comes from collectors buying 5 different covers

But they're all gay...

Says who?
Stay off on twitter.....
Thanks

All that is proven is that you are a cuck

So you only read online outrage articles, and do not actually follow the comics?

Transformers had over 12 years of publication at IDW and there were 4 or 5 "controversial" issues during that time. THAT'S IT. Those 5 pannels people spam to show that old IDW TF was a "SJW scam"? That's EVERYTHING - suddenly hundreds of issues are all bad because of a few pages. IDW also gave us gems like The Last Stand of the Wreckers.

The original G.I.Joe (ARAH) is still being continued by Larry Hama, the writer of the original Marvel Joe comics, who now writes them for IDW. The bad apples were sone of the shortlived alternative universe projects.

TMNT had some stupid "controversy" recently, but most of it is about a transgender person writing and drawing the book. And most of the outraged people clearly didn't read the comic, because they get all their facts wrong.

IDW is also currently publishing Usagi Yojimbo.

So fuck you, you know as much about comics you badmouth as Yas Forums does about games.

Lurk moar.

No because digital comics aren't really amazingly cheaper to produce than physical comics. The cost of mass printing and paper is negligible, the cost of a comic is mostly the writer's fee, the artist's fee, the inker, colorist, letterer, editor, layouts, designs etc. Also you get no ad space with digital comics so the money you "save" becomes even less.

Not that user but you must be a comic writer or a article publisher to write this amount of asshurting. What the fuck....

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kill lock is total shit

>t. marvel shill

He didn't even say anything that put him on marvel side. Are you that fucking desperate of starting some spamming company war bullshit? Quit being retarded.

>happy manga noise

Yes, I must be. No way I can be an angry man with a different opinion, my livelyhood must depend on it if I'm willing to call out bullshit sput out by an idiot.

>The cost of mass printing and paper is negligible, the cost of a comic is mostly the writer's fee, the artist's fee, the inker, colorist, letterer, editor, layouts, designs etc.
Sounds like it's time to trim a bunch of overpaid fat

>No way I can be an angry man with a different opinion,
Dude that's everyone on Yas Forums. Yours sound more like you were deeply hurt. But whatever, you do you.

What digital saves on print and publisher's fee, it loses on lower sales (being in comic book shops is an advertisment on it's own, since people browse and try new things) and digital distributor's cut. But if you remove floppies and comic book shops entirely, digital will become MORE profitable with comparable sales. Still people buy a lot of trades (yearly they bring comparable money to floppies) and print won't go anywhere as long as you want that thick book on your shelf.

>Yes, I must be.
Yes

If Digital becomes the main distribution channel Marvel and DC will 100% guaranteed make their own digital distribution service and remove comixology. Smaller publishers will still have to use something like it just to get their stuff noticed though.

There's a point where you tire of people repeating bullshit they read in outrage threads without checking facts. Especially if you follow those comics and know there are ACTUAL problems that should be discussed (like the 5th turtle - the girl - in TMNT being boring and inoffensive to the point where you wish she was actually pushing some made up agenda you could discuss), and not that meaningless and often untrue crap.

I'm fine with digital comics as long as their price is lower than the phisical comics.

What is dumb is to pretend we pay the same when there is no print or distrubution involved to buff the price.

ITs like video games, digital copies is just an scam since they cost the same but they don't have to print it or distribute it phisically

True, I'll give you that one.

I read TMNT and blissfully have no idea what you're talking about with the writer.

As if Marvel and DC can survive in this market, nobody will buy their shit on this market.

And who's paying you for posting? Huh? Is it Trump? It must be Trump.
>Yas Forums is shills shilling on shills, everyone else left long ago

It literally doesn't matter. Enjoy the comic if you like it.

This. Plus going digital opened up an absolute avalanche day one downloads, micro-transactions and dlc. An all digital future isn’t a good

>What is dumb is to pretend we pay the same when there is no print or distrubution involved to buff the price.

But digital "distribution" exists... Amazon and Apple take a huge cut from the sales (around 40-60%)

Digital distribution platforms can be built much easier than physical ones, even some indies have their own storefront separate from CMX. The big 2 never focused much on digital as the LCSs would whine and whine if their outdated stores are ever threatened

Apple and Amazon have millions of customers they can shill the comics to when they download music or do the shopping. Only die hard readers would visit DC's and Marvel's digital storefronts.

This, plus editorial services depending.
Getting your own comic published is mostly for the sake of having it properly published these days. Creators can make similar cash doing the same stuff independently online.

>Overpaid fat
You mean the people who actually make the book and are getting $2-300 per direct 8 hour investment on average?

DC and Marvel already have their own digital sites, DCs is shit and lagging far behind Marvel Unlimited though.