### Net Loss
- The company reported a net loss for the three months ended July 31, 2023, of $(1,513) thousand and for the nine months ended July 31, 2023, of $(5,424) thousand. This indicates that the company is not profitable and is losing money.
### Decrease in Revenues
- The revenues for the three months ended July 31, 2023, were $6,256 thousand, compared to $7,712 thousand for the same period in 2022. This shows a decline in revenue year-over-year.
### High Costs and Expenses
- Direct cost of revenues for the three months ended July 31, 2023, was $3,738 thousand, and selling, general and administrative expenses were $3,421 thousand. These high costs are eating into the revenues, contributing to the net loss.
### Amortization and Depreciation
- The company reported amortization and depreciation costs of $610 thousand for the three months ended July 31, 2023. These are non-cash expenses but they do affect the bottom line.
### Stockholders' Equity
- The total stockholders' equity as of July 31, 2023, was $17,189 thousand. This is a measure of the company's net value and a lower number could indicate less financial stability.
### Cash Flow
- The net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended July 31, 2023, was $(6,047) thousand. Negative cash flow from operations could indicate that the company is not generating enough cash to sustain its operations.
### Global Risks
- The report mentions the impact of COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions, such as the Russian Federation's military action in Ukraine, as potential risks that could adversely affect the business.
### Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
- The company had an allowance for doubtful accounts of $0 as of July 31, 2023, which could indicate either a very optimistic view of receivables or a lack of provision for potential bad debts.
Boco only shills IDW because he's a sonic and blaze shipper, the sooner you realize this the sooner everything makes sense.
Ian made angry comments in his most recent podcast dunking on the ship since apparently he got spammed and harassed by sonic/blaze shippers due to 63. 64 baited sonic/amy and silver/blaze harder than I've ever seen him do (really seems out of spite) so lets see if boco still decides to do mental gymnastics for IDW.
>Boco only shills IDW because he's a sonic and blaze shipper, the sooner you realize this the sooner everything makes sense.
I'm failing to grasp how a ship makes someone shill for a company that is fricking up your favourite brand. That just sounds like being a braindamaged fan who will defend any and everything associated with your brand regardless of quality.
I like Locke and Key and Bloom Country. But they're done. And the money I've spent isn't exactly being used to make more quality content I enjoy. And I'm not going to read that fricking Locke and Key crossover with Sandman because Jesus Christ what the frick.
>That just sounds like being a braindamaged fan who will defend any and everything associated with your brand regardless of quality.
You've never conversed with a Nintendo or Pokémon fan in the last six years, have you?
"In February 2022, the Russian Federation commenced a military action with the country of Ukraine. As a result of this action, various nations, including the United States of America, have instituted economic sanctions against the Russian Federation and Belarus. Further, the impact of this action and related sanctions on the world economy are not determinable as of the date of these financial statements and the specific impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows related to IDW Publishing’s foreign licenses is also not determinable as of the date of these financial statements."
I have literally no idea what IDW has common with current war. It's nowhere near Marvel/DC levels of market in Russia. >IDW operates in Russia?
IDW sold few licences to their books.
If I remember correctly, IDW decided to cut off the deal about TMNT years before war (either because they weren't happy about sales or other factors). Other licensed stuff includes Locke and Key, few Sonic, Back to the Future and Dredd books (again- you can do the math and realise all of these titles never sold like Batman, Spider-Man or manga).
If IDW talks about "boohoo US economy is bad, that's why our numbers is bad" then it's just a shitty argument, because every other publisher operates under the same set of rules.
Worse, they are doing fake suppositions. They have no money from Ukraine or the Russian sanctions but they are saying that they dont know how Ukraine and the russian sanctions are affecting their sales.
What they are doing is implying Russia could be affecting their sales and they cant determine how much, even though it's actually zero. They are desperate to make up something as to why they are sinking and the best they can do is blame Russia. There is a name for this but I dont know what it would be.
It's a fallacy of some kind, can't recall the tpe, but it reminds me of this quote
"The Romans wore Togas, ate Olives and their Empire fell."
Suggesting, of all things that the clothes they wore is why Rome fell.
The TMNT ongoing still outsells Sonic and the Last Ronin especially is still the thing carrying them
Sonic is nowhere near as important you think for IDW
Here's the thing
On paper, IDW Sonic's active fanbase online should mean the comic sells gangbusters but it doesn't
It gets mogged by not only Marvel/DC titles but also Image and Boom titles less people discuss
Sonic isn't even their top seller, it's TMNT
Sonic isn't even mentioned as being part of the wider initiative for the remaining licenses >Effective January 1, 2023, our licenses for Transformers and GI Joe titles were terminated. The cancellation of the licenses for Transformers and GI Joe have decreased revenues by approximately $1.2 million in fiscal year 2023. IDWP plans to mitigate the loss of revenue by enhancing our other key licensed brands through new initiatives for Star Trek, Godzilla, Dungeons & Dragons, and My Little Pony and an expansion of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. These efforts have begun to offset any material impacts and we expect to continue to substantially offset any material impact on our gross margin from the loss of the licensed titles.
After issue 64, more and more people have come out with how frustrated they are with the state of the comic, how it only focuses on the not-lesbians-but-actually-are-lesbian characters instead of the game characters, how all the heroes are females and the villains are males, and how the plots ultimately go nowhere.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I noticed that people are getting annoyed with the new character focus.
8 months ago
Anonymous
As an anon who just speedread the last half of what is available, only that last point feels like it has any merit. Right now they want to set up something but as a result are unable to keep things high-paced.
The real problem with the heroes/villains is that outside of Eggman they are not all that "interesting". Mimic works fine as a mid-tier lackey but feels bland (somehow), Rough and Tumble are comedic brutes, Clutch is so far all talk, and Starline is MIA/KIA. The imposters are coming back soon so who knows how that will go.
At least scrapnik island was a pleasant read. Any info on current sales numbers?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Speak for yourself. I stopped following the comic because of the whole focus shift onto Flynns OC harem.
If I pick up a Sonic the Hedgehog comic, I want to see Sonic the Hedgehog. Gemerl and Cream in the metal virus arc got me to feel what that stupid fricking emo fox girl and her butch lesbian girlfriend couldn't through their 600 pages of crying.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Look at the bright side.
Issue 64 was enough to finally convince twitter that the comic isn't as good as they've wanted to believe.
8 months ago
Anonymous
The 900th special is a bigger highlight of much fricking nothing IDW Sonic has become
8 months ago
Anonymous
Everything in issue 64 was forced and poorly written
8 months ago
Anonymous
Sonicbros...
8 months ago
Anonymous
Reminder this guy said that everyone who makes 100K or more is evil.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I guess his sense of morality is never going to be tested.
Let's look at the facts here. IDW has depended on brands to make bank. These are the only brands they say they have on their website:
>1. Sonic
This comic only exists so SEGA can say it does >2. Godzilla
His new IDW comics are not as popular as IDW's older ones >3. TMNT
Is relying on The Last Ronin since their mainline title burned goodwill while the new movie's performance was lukewarm at best >4. Star Trek
Dead brand written by writers trying to appeal to an audience that doesn't read comics or outright hates their new shows >5. Bloom County
No new content, no new readers >6. Locke & Key
Core audience only knows it for a canceled three-season show on Netflix that didn't know it was absed on a comic >7. Dark Spaces
Banks on the fact it's by Scott Snyder and nothing else as if that matters
You know what I think from seeing all of this? I see "Viacom's sloppy seconds" and "errand-boy for out-of-touch brands trying to cheaply build up an IP's portfolio."
>Transformers & G.I Joe gone >will rely on Trek, DnD, MLP, etc.
PFFFT! Look, no G.I.Joe is fine. But no Transformers? If I were an investor, I'd be wandering how IDW fricked that up, or why Hasbro isn't confident with Transformers comics anymore! And IDW expects to soften this blow with those other brands? Barely, I bet! If you look at Hasbro's MLP merchandise, there's a disproportionate amount from the previous "generation" which is canceled compared to the newer one. Why? Shouldn't the newer one be on its own? Also, the newer one cut back production on a Netflix show and relies on a Youtube webseries now. Yikes! Not a lot of confidence there. And DnD? With the mismanagment leading to massive backlash, tanked Hasbro's stock, had a movie flop just as Paramount+ gave the green light for a series, and all at the same time? You gotta be kidding.
DO YOU SEE THE FRICKING PROBLEM HERE???? A company BUILT on making comics for brands has NO IDEA HOW COMICS OR BRANDS WORK!!! HELLOOOOO???
So what if they own it? It's not gonna make things better. It's nothing. It doesn't have any new material coming out and it doesn't have mainstream appeal despite a four season run on Spike or SYFY or whatever. IDW probably makes next to nothing on it anymore considering what little demand it had is all but gone.
8 months ago
Anonymous
The show was cancelled years ago. It was actually greatly impacted by IDW's slow death. They literally couldn't afford to produce the final season for months even though it was renewed by Syfy and its Canadian partner.
No, there's new content. It's just on Breathed's Facebook page. I assume IDW will collect those at some point. And there was talk of a TV show to come, but I don't know if that ever got greenlit.
But still they can't run on new Bloom County comics, TMNT Last Ronin, and Sonic and Locke and Key, alone. Do they even still have Top Shelf? I know Library of American Comics bailed from IDW and went solo
8 months ago
Anonymous
He’s a better question— do you expect an investor to care about ANY of that? They probably don’t even know what Bloom County is.
>And DnD? With the mismanagment leading to massive backlash, tanked Hasbro's stock, had a movie flop just as Paramount+ gave the green light for a series, and all at the same time?
What happened with D&D, and did it have any effect on the movie flopping?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Not him, but for one, even D&D went full woke, it was disgusting. And more recently, there were rumors of a revision that was getting rid of the "open source" aspect, and going "all your base are belong to us" on third-party and even fan content, which pissed off even their new woke crowd.
Not sure if there was anything else.
8 months ago
Anonymous
There's been a bunch of things that happened this year alone. The want to frick with the OGL which will frick with 3rd party publishers (lifeblood of the D&D community). They want to push a new subscription model and app-driven platform for D&D products where books are "collector's items" and everything is digital. They called the fricking Pinkertons on a guy because they accidentally sent him the wrong box of magic cards. Swore up and down that they'd never do anything with AI, and then got caught with AI art in one of their books and that they'd subcontracted out an AI research company to make stuff for their games.
WotC is a miserable, poorly run company that has the benefit of having one of the strongest, biggest brand names in tabletop games firmly in their grasp, and they keep fumbling it. The D&D movie was supposed to be their billion dollar success that would launch D&D streaming shows and a D&D cinematic universe, and tons of D&D merch that would make D&D into a true "lifestyle brand" that they'd be able to sell to normies, boomers, and all those other demos they've failed to capture.
I'm actually surprised that this list is comprehensive. There's just no way anybody under the age of 30 gives a flying frick about any of this. That's not a condemnation of the brands it's just I totally agree with you that the amount of headspace these brands occupy in people's brains under the age of 30 is zero.
God Bloom County. I mean do they even make money off that anymore? I heard a cartoon was coming but I'm absolutely not going to watch it.
More than all their comics is some leftover tv shit. Locke and Key.
Sitterson didn't cause the license to be revoked
Kirkman just gave a better offer
You really think Stillerson had NOTHING to do with it? At the very least him frickng shit up and losing money meant that IDW couldn't afford to bid more.
All they had to do is not go woke.
All they had to do is to produce good content.
All they had to do is to do something genuinely fun.
If they did these then they wouldn't have lost the Hasbro IPs and we would've gotten more Transformers and the Beast Wars comic could've continued...
BUT NOPE. They reap what they sowed.
Get woke, go woke and then CROAK.
>All they had to do is to produce good content.
I mean, I heard the Saturday Morning line had decent-ish stuff, too bad they thought too late of giving the fans what they wanted.
Let's look at the facts here. IDW has depended on brands to make bank. These are the only brands they say they have on their website:
>1. Sonic
This comic only exists so SEGA can say it does >2. Godzilla
His new IDW comics are not as popular as IDW's older ones >3. TMNT
Is relying on The Last Ronin since their mainline title burned goodwill while the new movie's performance was lukewarm at best >4. Star Trek
Dead brand written by writers trying to appeal to an audience that doesn't read comics or outright hates their new shows >5. Bloom County
No new content, no new readers >6. Locke & Key
Core audience only knows it for a canceled three-season show on Netflix that didn't know it was absed on a comic >7. Dark Spaces
Banks on the fact it's by Scott Snyder and nothing else as if that matters
You know what I think from seeing all of this? I see "Viacom's sloppy seconds" and "errand-boy for out-of-touch brands trying to cheaply build up an IP's portfolio."
>Transformers & G.I Joe gone >will rely on Trek, DnD, MLP, etc.
PFFFT! Look, no G.I.Joe is fine. But no Transformers? If I were an investor, I'd be wandering how IDW fricked that up, or why Hasbro isn't confident with Transformers comics anymore! And IDW expects to soften this blow with those other brands? Barely, I bet! If you look at Hasbro's MLP merchandise, there's a disproportionate amount from the previous "generation" which is canceled compared to the newer one. Why? Shouldn't the newer one be on its own? Also, the newer one cut back production on a Netflix show and relies on a Youtube webseries now. Yikes! Not a lot of confidence there. And DnD? With the mismanagment leading to massive backlash, tanked Hasbro's stock, had a movie flop just as Paramount+ gave the green light for a series, and all at the same time? You gotta be kidding.
DO YOU SEE THE FRICKING PROBLEM HERE???? A company BUILT on making comics for brands has NO IDEA HOW COMICS OR BRANDS WORK!!! HELLOOOOO???
Here's the thing
On paper, IDW Sonic's active fanbase online should mean the comic sells gangbusters but it doesn't
It gets mogged by not only Marvel/DC titles but also Image and Boom titles less people discuss
Sonic isn't even their top seller, it's TMNT
Sonic isn't even mentioned as being part of the wider initiative for the remaining licenses >Effective January 1, 2023, our licenses for Transformers and GI Joe titles were terminated. The cancellation of the licenses for Transformers and GI Joe have decreased revenues by approximately $1.2 million in fiscal year 2023. IDWP plans to mitigate the loss of revenue by enhancing our other key licensed brands through new initiatives for Star Trek, Godzilla, Dungeons & Dragons, and My Little Pony and an expansion of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. These efforts have begun to offset any material impacts and we expect to continue to substantially offset any material impact on our gross margin from the loss of the licensed titles.
>Dungeons & Dragons
On the other hand, I heard they fricked up the landing with Saturday Morning D&D. >MLP
Are they still publishing? Is it G5-only?
Worse schmorse, it made bank.
"Go woke go broke" is the mating cry of morons.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Spider-Man is the most popular superhero in the entire planet and doesn't share the same fatigue as the MCU's audience base. All Spider-verse needed to do was show up to make any kind of profit, but a good Spider-Man movie pulls bank. THESE are the numbers that a Spider-Man film should be pulling. And even if you want to pretend like Spiderverse was some colossal exception (it's always funny how you Black personhomosexuals love to use the same exceptions and go "s-s-s-see! the general public worships minorities like I do!"), Miles' comic is selling like shit, when it SHOULD be gaining traction from all the free advertising across all Spider-Man media he's getting.
Go back to sucking Black person wieners you homosexual Redditor. The adults are talking.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>The animated version should do as well in theaters as the live action version
Mask of the Phantasm was a certified box office bomb, and Batman Returns broke several box-office records. There's no history supporting the notion that animated versions of superheroes can do as well as the live action versions of the same characters. As it stands, the Spider-verse movies have pulled in hundreds of millions in profits. The phrase is "go woke, go broke" not "go woke, make measily hundreds of millions in comparison to theoretical billions."
8 months ago
Anonymous
>...Ah... uhm... it wasn't going to do that good ever because it's animated! >But despite that I just said it was doomed to never get as much money as its white-lead counterpart, and we're on a thread about a company dying from wokism, "go woke get broke" isn't real because ONE movie riding the coattails of the most popular superhero IP in the world made a profit and didn't immediately bankrupt Sony!
If I had one wish, it would be for every single one of you brainrot Redditgays to be immediately executed in front lf your families cartel-style. You gays are the dumbest creatures on this site, and offer nothing to the collective intelligence of humanity.
8 months ago
Anonymous
You are free to provide examples where animated movie versions of superheroes are as successful at bringing in money as the live action versions of the same characters.
8 months ago
Anonymous
8 months ago
Anonymous
10/10 reply.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Actually, the current Miles Morales comic book is selling pretty well. If you were to look at the top 50 comic books selling in America. Miles is at #27
We have zero concrete sale figures for American comics. Not even the relatively weak diamond numbers of years past.
Rankings do not matter, units shipped does. Even when they released the diamond numbers everything outside the top 15 was well below 50K
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah dude, that's why IDW is doing so well.
...Wait a minute.
8 months ago
Anonymous
IDW's sinking ship is not because it "went woke." You read The Armageddon Game and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>You read The Armageddon Game and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere. >You read Transformers and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere. >You read Sonic and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yes.
8 months ago
Anonymous
You notice a common thread, homosexual? And I can tell you that the gays are the worst part of Transformers and Sonic.
I never thought "got I want IDW to lose TMNT license" while I was reading first ~50 issues. Crazy how world has changed and how little I care about what happens in books now. If anything, I am re-reading Mirage and Archie
Those first 50 issues work primarily because Tom Waltz didn't have another 100 issues, plus side comics and mini-series to bloat out the story into an unsalvageable trainwreck. It works because the stuff being introduced gets focused on and the stories being told are going somewhere, instead of being put off on the backburner for years at a time.
And it's not even like Waltz does better with shorter, limited runs considering how badly TLR turned out as a story. It's nothing short of a fluke that those comics sold as well as they did, but the honeymoon is over and people aren't latching onto his new original turtles donut steel.
There's a bigger audience for Sonic than TMNT. If IDW could figure out how to monetize Sonic, it might save the whole company.
Right now, their biggest problem is distribution. It's easier to find it on piracy sites than on Kindle, and $4 per issue is too expensive. They'd make more money by making Sonic free-to-read and charging $1/month for early access.
Their biggest market is the direct market the same with every other comic publisher
Sonicgays don't use the direct market
Sonic could be a 10/10 masterpiece comic that could perform the Herculean feat and satisfy every Sonic fan and it still wouldn't sell because it has little overlap with people who actually do buy comics
Because licenseshitters aren't actually comic fans
Also floppies fricking suck to collect, trades go out of print too quickly, it's too fricking expensive, and going to comic stores sucks shit, actually.
>Their biggest market is the direct market
Their biggest market is tiny. They sell, what, 10-20 thousand copies per issue? That's maybe $40,000 in revenue after everyone else has taken their cut. There are Patreon artists who make more than that.
>They'd make more money by making Sonic free-to-read and charging $1/month for early access.
They're more likely to still pirate it anyways
>They're more likely to still pirate it anyways
They'd be more likely to start reading it on the official website, and actually consider paying for it once they're caught up. There's a reason free-to-play games are a billion dollar market. Piracy is a service problem, and IDW's service is shit.
What I find funny about the gays who argue that GWGB isn't real fingerpoint to pretty much everything else other than their new-age religion fricking everything up. As if to say that woketards are inherently shit writers and not very intelligent storytellers, and that if smarter people were at the helm of their cult then people would be more willing to excuse it.
IDW Sonic is plagued by poor writing and very strict mandates. Most of the fans of the original characters don't even read the book, they like the characters based on their headcanon perception of the characters based on one panel screencaps on twitter.
How dare you not like the mandates. Don't you understand that if Sega slackens up even slightly, it will immediately cause Penders-tier autism to happen?
To be fair at this point Archie is essentially a zombie company. The only thing they can do these days is release compilations of their old books and shitty horror one-shots.
They barely acknowledge it in the first place. Tangle and Whisper are in a small noncanon mobile game (even then they are really neglected compared to the mainline characters, only Whisper has 1 alt costume) and a small missable sentence of dialogue in Frontiers mentioning Tangle. Hell, that one single line apparently isn't even in the Japanese version.
Sega will put an assload of advertising for LEGO sets but will never advertise the comics. Even Archie got more promotion through Mega Collection than IDW ever got.
They’re more popular than ever. The comics most American companies are making simply don’t appeal to an audience that reads comics. It’s an imaginary gender neutral 15-50 socially progressive yet emotionally stunted consumer with expendable income and an interest in comics that validate the experiences of selfdisenfranchised they/them’s.
Manga is more popular than ever, but the American comic industry hasn't caught up on that very easy, very successful business model and continues to desperately rely on variant covers, new "#1" issues every fricking week, big crossover events, and just generally being fricking miserable to read, follow, or pay attention to.
I love how you couldn’t just say you’re right and add on, you had to frame it as if you disagreed. The simple fact is sequential comics are more popular than ever.
I love how you had to be a pedantic homosexual because you want to pretend you can't understand the difference between comics made and owned by western companies with interests in bolstering their own media portfolio, and comics being localized from a foreign market, and why that distinction matters on Cinemaphile in a thread about a western comics publisher's financial problems. People buying every volume of Demon Slayer does nothing to help IDW.
Makes sense, comics are not popular anymore with kids, which is this companie's main demographic. The only people who even reads these comics are sunlight-deprived sonic nerds.
Horses and D&D would probably go first
Probably Godzilla is next since it doesn't even have an ongoing
Whatever happens, IDW will do their best to keep TMNT
Certainly, let's delve deeper into the details:
### Net Loss
- The company reported a net loss for the three months ended July 31, 2023, of $(1,513) thousand and for the nine months ended July 31, 2023, of $(5,424) thousand. This indicates that the company is not profitable and is losing money.
### Decrease in Revenues
- The revenues for the three months ended July 31, 2023, were $6,256 thousand, compared to $7,712 thousand for the same period in 2022. This shows a decline in revenue year-over-year.
### High Costs and Expenses
- Direct cost of revenues for the three months ended July 31, 2023, was $3,738 thousand, and selling, general and administrative expenses were $3,421 thousand. These high costs are eating into the revenues, contributing to the net loss.
### Amortization and Depreciation
- The company reported amortization and depreciation costs of $610 thousand for the three months ended July 31, 2023. These are non-cash expenses but they do affect the bottom line.
### Stockholders' Equity
- The total stockholders' equity as of July 31, 2023, was $17,189 thousand. This is a measure of the company's net value and a lower number could indicate less financial stability.
### Cash Flow
- The net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended July 31, 2023, was $(6,047) thousand. Negative cash flow from operations could indicate that the company is not generating enough cash to sustain its operations.
### Global Risks
- The report mentions the impact of COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions, such as the Russian Federation's military action in Ukraine, as potential risks that could adversely affect the business.
### Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
- The company had an allowance for doubtful accounts of $0 as of July 31, 2023, which could indicate either a very optimistic view of receivables or a lack of provision for potential bad debts.
>COVID
Sooner or later that excuse just stops working.
Bocope in 3, 2, 1....
>Well, they haven't gone bankrupt at this exact moment so they are doing great!
Boco only shills IDW because he's a sonic and blaze shipper, the sooner you realize this the sooner everything makes sense.
Ian made angry comments in his most recent podcast dunking on the ship since apparently he got spammed and harassed by sonic/blaze shippers due to 63. 64 baited sonic/amy and silver/blaze harder than I've ever seen him do (really seems out of spite) so lets see if boco still decides to do mental gymnastics for IDW.
>Boco only shills IDW because he's a sonic and blaze shipper, the sooner you realize this the sooner everything makes sense.
I'm failing to grasp how a ship makes someone shill for a company that is fricking up your favourite brand. That just sounds like being a braindamaged fan who will defend any and everything associated with your brand regardless of quality.
I like Locke and Key and Bloom Country. But they're done. And the money I've spent isn't exactly being used to make more quality content I enjoy. And I'm not going to read that fricking Locke and Key crossover with Sandman because Jesus Christ what the frick.
>That just sounds like being a braindamaged fan who will defend any and everything associated with your brand regardless of quality.
You've never conversed with a Nintendo or Pokémon fan in the last six years, have you?
Wait, there's Sonic/Blaze stuff in the comics? Maybe I should finally give them a read...
Last issue had Sonic ship her and Silver. Though he also compares them to him and Tails
Sonic 06 and its consequences
You shouldn't
"In February 2022, the Russian Federation commenced a military action with the country of Ukraine. As a result of this action, various nations, including the United States of America, have instituted economic sanctions against the Russian Federation and Belarus. Further, the impact of this action and related sanctions on the world economy are not determinable as of the date of these financial statements and the specific impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows related to IDW Publishing’s foreign licenses is also not determinable as of the date of these financial statements."
This sounds like blame shifting.
IDW operates in Russia?
Wtf that's the first I'm hearing of it
Companies all over got fricked by the war
Has to do with intertnaional trade or something IIRC
I have literally no idea what IDW has common with current war. It's nowhere near Marvel/DC levels of market in Russia.
>IDW operates in Russia?
IDW sold few licences to their books.
If I remember correctly, IDW decided to cut off the deal about TMNT years before war (either because they weren't happy about sales or other factors). Other licensed stuff includes Locke and Key, few Sonic, Back to the Future and Dredd books (again- you can do the math and realise all of these titles never sold like Batman, Spider-Man or manga).
If IDW talks about "boohoo US economy is bad, that's why our numbers is bad" then it's just a shitty argument, because every other publisher operates under the same set of rules.
Worse, they are doing fake suppositions. They have no money from Ukraine or the Russian sanctions but they are saying that they dont know how Ukraine and the russian sanctions are affecting their sales.
What they are doing is implying Russia could be affecting their sales and they cant determine how much, even though it's actually zero. They are desperate to make up something as to why they are sinking and the best they can do is blame Russia. There is a name for this but I dont know what it would be.
It's a fallacy of some kind, can't recall the tpe, but it reminds me of this quote
"The Romans wore Togas, ate Olives and their Empire fell."
Suggesting, of all things that the clothes they wore is why Rome fell.
>no more transformers
>fumbled the bag with tnmnt and the sales are abysmal
Is sonic autism the only reason they are still alive?
The TMNT ongoing still outsells Sonic and the Last Ronin especially is still the thing carrying them
Sonic is nowhere near as important you think for IDW
Their Sonic comic is hot garbage that's really only followed by social media and the alphabet crowd.
Here's the thing
On paper, IDW Sonic's active fanbase online should mean the comic sells gangbusters but it doesn't
It gets mogged by not only Marvel/DC titles but also Image and Boom titles less people discuss
Sonic isn't even their top seller, it's TMNT
Sonic isn't even mentioned as being part of the wider initiative for the remaining licenses
>Effective January 1, 2023, our licenses for Transformers and GI Joe titles were terminated. The cancellation of the licenses for Transformers and GI Joe have decreased revenues by approximately $1.2 million in fiscal year 2023. IDWP plans to mitigate the loss of revenue by enhancing our other key licensed brands through new initiatives for Star Trek, Godzilla, Dungeons & Dragons, and My Little Pony and an expansion of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. These efforts have begun to offset any material impacts and we expect to continue to substantially offset any material impact on our gross margin from the loss of the licensed titles.
But Sonic sells so well for IDW.
Not as well as you might think.
After issue 64, more and more people have come out with how frustrated they are with the state of the comic, how it only focuses on the not-lesbians-but-actually-are-lesbian characters instead of the game characters, how all the heroes are females and the villains are males, and how the plots ultimately go nowhere.
Yeah I noticed that people are getting annoyed with the new character focus.
As an anon who just speedread the last half of what is available, only that last point feels like it has any merit. Right now they want to set up something but as a result are unable to keep things high-paced.
The real problem with the heroes/villains is that outside of Eggman they are not all that "interesting". Mimic works fine as a mid-tier lackey but feels bland (somehow), Rough and Tumble are comedic brutes, Clutch is so far all talk, and Starline is MIA/KIA. The imposters are coming back soon so who knows how that will go.
At least scrapnik island was a pleasant read. Any info on current sales numbers?
Speak for yourself. I stopped following the comic because of the whole focus shift onto Flynns OC harem.
If I pick up a Sonic the Hedgehog comic, I want to see Sonic the Hedgehog. Gemerl and Cream in the metal virus arc got me to feel what that stupid fricking emo fox girl and her butch lesbian girlfriend couldn't through their 600 pages of crying.
Look at the bright side.
Issue 64 was enough to finally convince twitter that the comic isn't as good as they've wanted to believe.
The 900th special is a bigger highlight of much fricking nothing IDW Sonic has become
Everything in issue 64 was forced and poorly written
Sonicbros...
Reminder this guy said that everyone who makes 100K or more is evil.
I guess his sense of morality is never going to be tested.
Let's look at the facts here. IDW has depended on brands to make bank. These are the only brands they say they have on their website:
>1. Sonic
This comic only exists so SEGA can say it does
>2. Godzilla
His new IDW comics are not as popular as IDW's older ones
>3. TMNT
Is relying on The Last Ronin since their mainline title burned goodwill while the new movie's performance was lukewarm at best
>4. Star Trek
Dead brand written by writers trying to appeal to an audience that doesn't read comics or outright hates their new shows
>5. Bloom County
No new content, no new readers
>6. Locke & Key
Core audience only knows it for a canceled three-season show on Netflix that didn't know it was absed on a comic
>7. Dark Spaces
Banks on the fact it's by Scott Snyder and nothing else as if that matters
You know what I think from seeing all of this? I see "Viacom's sloppy seconds" and "errand-boy for out-of-touch brands trying to cheaply build up an IP's portfolio."
>Transformers & G.I Joe gone
>will rely on Trek, DnD, MLP, etc.
PFFFT! Look, no G.I.Joe is fine. But no Transformers? If I were an investor, I'd be wandering how IDW fricked that up, or why Hasbro isn't confident with Transformers comics anymore! And IDW expects to soften this blow with those other brands? Barely, I bet! If you look at Hasbro's MLP merchandise, there's a disproportionate amount from the previous "generation" which is canceled compared to the newer one. Why? Shouldn't the newer one be on its own? Also, the newer one cut back production on a Netflix show and relies on a Youtube webseries now. Yikes! Not a lot of confidence there. And DnD? With the mismanagment leading to massive backlash, tanked Hasbro's stock, had a movie flop just as Paramount+ gave the green light for a series, and all at the same time? You gotta be kidding.
DO YOU SEE THE FRICKING PROBLEM HERE???? A company BUILT on making comics for brands has NO IDEA HOW COMICS OR BRANDS WORK!!! HELLOOOOO???
What happened to Wynonna Earp?
>Wynonna Earp
What ABOUT Wynonna Earp?
It owns it right?
Image
So what if they own it? It's not gonna make things better. It's nothing. It doesn't have any new material coming out and it doesn't have mainstream appeal despite a four season run on Spike or SYFY or whatever. IDW probably makes next to nothing on it anymore considering what little demand it had is all but gone.
The show was cancelled years ago. It was actually greatly impacted by IDW's slow death. They literally couldn't afford to produce the final season for months even though it was renewed by Syfy and its Canadian partner.
>>5. Bloom County
>No new content, no new readers
No, there's new content. It's just on Breathed's Facebook page. I assume IDW will collect those at some point. And there was talk of a TV show to come, but I don't know if that ever got greenlit.
But still they can't run on new Bloom County comics, TMNT Last Ronin, and Sonic and Locke and Key, alone. Do they even still have Top Shelf? I know Library of American Comics bailed from IDW and went solo
He’s a better question— do you expect an investor to care about ANY of that? They probably don’t even know what Bloom County is.
Well it's their money, so yeah they should
>Godzilla
Don't forget all the money they have to spend to license like every fricking Toho kaiju ever just in case the writer wants to use them.
>And DnD? With the mismanagment leading to massive backlash, tanked Hasbro's stock, had a movie flop just as Paramount+ gave the green light for a series, and all at the same time?
What happened with D&D, and did it have any effect on the movie flopping?
Not him, but for one, even D&D went full woke, it was disgusting. And more recently, there were rumors of a revision that was getting rid of the "open source" aspect, and going "all your base are belong to us" on third-party and even fan content, which pissed off even their new woke crowd.
Not sure if there was anything else.
There's been a bunch of things that happened this year alone. The want to frick with the OGL which will frick with 3rd party publishers (lifeblood of the D&D community). They want to push a new subscription model and app-driven platform for D&D products where books are "collector's items" and everything is digital. They called the fricking Pinkertons on a guy because they accidentally sent him the wrong box of magic cards. Swore up and down that they'd never do anything with AI, and then got caught with AI art in one of their books and that they'd subcontracted out an AI research company to make stuff for their games.
WotC is a miserable, poorly run company that has the benefit of having one of the strongest, biggest brand names in tabletop games firmly in their grasp, and they keep fumbling it. The D&D movie was supposed to be their billion dollar success that would launch D&D streaming shows and a D&D cinematic universe, and tons of D&D merch that would make D&D into a true "lifestyle brand" that they'd be able to sell to normies, boomers, and all those other demos they've failed to capture.
>>2. Godzilla
>His new IDW comics are not as popular as IDW's older ones
Why did they even stop the original run of series?
They really should try doing some Godzilla comics with new original monsters like 98TAS did.
Black leads are not inherently woke.
I'm actually surprised that this list is comprehensive. There's just no way anybody under the age of 30 gives a flying frick about any of this. That's not a condemnation of the brands it's just I totally agree with you that the amount of headspace these brands occupy in people's brains under the age of 30 is zero.
God Bloom County. I mean do they even make money off that anymore? I heard a cartoon was coming but I'm absolutely not going to watch it.
>Bloom County
Wtf when did ISW start owning Bloom County?
"Carrying", in this case, means not hemorrhaging nearly as much money as they would be otherwise.
More than all their comics is some leftover tv shit. Locke and Key.
You really think Stillerson had NOTHING to do with it? At the very least him frickng shit up and losing money meant that IDW couldn't afford to bid more.
Their Sonic series is shit
All they had to do is not go woke.
All they had to do is to produce good content.
All they had to do is to do something genuinely fun.
If they did these then they wouldn't have lost the Hasbro IPs and we would've gotten more Transformers and the Beast Wars comic could've continued...
BUT NOPE. They reap what they sowed.
Get woke, go woke and then CROAK.
Sitterson didn't cause the license to be revoked
Kirkman just gave a better offer
>All they had to do is to produce good content.
I mean, I heard the Saturday Morning line had decent-ish stuff, too bad they thought too late of giving the fans what they wanted.
>Dungeons & Dragons
On the other hand, I heard they fricked up the landing with Saturday Morning D&D.
>MLP
Are they still publishing? Is it G5-only?
>Are they still publishing? Is it G5-only?
Mostly G5
There's one G4 related book but it's pretty bad
Aw damn
They should have stuck with s2/s3 status quo, when they said they were allowed.
G4 is big enough it should still get published.
I thought even Hasbro was trying to forget about G4.
They were the only ones. Until they noticed it's still a cash cow of sorts, from what I'm hearing.
>Go woke go broke
an look at how much worse that movie is than the first one.
The first one being the one where white dude passed the mantle to a girl and a black dude?
And somehow this one is still worse.
Worse schmorse, it made bank.
"Go woke go broke" is the mating cry of morons.
Spider-Man is the most popular superhero in the entire planet and doesn't share the same fatigue as the MCU's audience base. All Spider-verse needed to do was show up to make any kind of profit, but a good Spider-Man movie pulls bank. THESE are the numbers that a Spider-Man film should be pulling. And even if you want to pretend like Spiderverse was some colossal exception (it's always funny how you Black personhomosexuals love to use the same exceptions and go "s-s-s-see! the general public worships minorities like I do!"), Miles' comic is selling like shit, when it SHOULD be gaining traction from all the free advertising across all Spider-Man media he's getting.
Go back to sucking Black person wieners you homosexual Redditor. The adults are talking.
>The animated version should do as well in theaters as the live action version
Mask of the Phantasm was a certified box office bomb, and Batman Returns broke several box-office records. There's no history supporting the notion that animated versions of superheroes can do as well as the live action versions of the same characters. As it stands, the Spider-verse movies have pulled in hundreds of millions in profits. The phrase is "go woke, go broke" not "go woke, make measily hundreds of millions in comparison to theoretical billions."
>...Ah... uhm... it wasn't going to do that good ever because it's animated!
>But despite that I just said it was doomed to never get as much money as its white-lead counterpart, and we're on a thread about a company dying from wokism, "go woke get broke" isn't real because ONE movie riding the coattails of the most popular superhero IP in the world made a profit and didn't immediately bankrupt Sony!
If I had one wish, it would be for every single one of you brainrot Redditgays to be immediately executed in front lf your families cartel-style. You gays are the dumbest creatures on this site, and offer nothing to the collective intelligence of humanity.
You are free to provide examples where animated movie versions of superheroes are as successful at bringing in money as the live action versions of the same characters.
10/10 reply.
Actually, the current Miles Morales comic book is selling pretty well. If you were to look at the top 50 comic books selling in America. Miles is at #27
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/55021/top-50-comics-august-2023
We have zero concrete sale figures for American comics. Not even the relatively weak diamond numbers of years past.
Rankings do not matter, units shipped does. Even when they released the diamond numbers everything outside the top 15 was well below 50K
Yeah dude, that's why IDW is doing so well.
...Wait a minute.
IDW's sinking ship is not because it "went woke." You read The Armageddon Game and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere.
>You read The Armageddon Game and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere.
>You read Transformers and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere.
>You read Sonic and tell me the worst part of it is that there's gay characters in there somewhere.
Yes.
You notice a common thread, homosexual? And I can tell you that the gays are the worst part of Transformers and Sonic.
Awful shame that cliffhanger's never gonna get resolved, anon
>All they had to do is not go woke.
Well, they were in such financial dire straights that they had to go woke in the hope of ESG investor money.
And they sure did, even Transformers became all about gender and race bait politics.
Wait, how far back would they have been doing so badly? One decade back they weren'tso bad I think, though I'm not sure about Transformers.
Good they fell off hard, all those licenses are better off elsewhere.
God I want them to lose TMNT.
I never thought "got I want IDW to lose TMNT license" while I was reading first ~50 issues. Crazy how world has changed and how little I care about what happens in books now. If anything, I am re-reading Mirage and Archie
Those first 50 issues work primarily because Tom Waltz didn't have another 100 issues, plus side comics and mini-series to bloat out the story into an unsalvageable trainwreck. It works because the stuff being introduced gets focused on and the stories being told are going somewhere, instead of being put off on the backburner for years at a time.
And it's not even like Waltz does better with shorter, limited runs considering how badly TLR turned out as a story. It's nothing short of a fluke that those comics sold as well as they did, but the honeymoon is over and people aren't latching onto his new original turtles donut steel.
All of there archival material like Artisan editions have been fricking fantastic 🙁
Are IDW the Invincible guys??
Nah, that's Image.
Image/Skybound
nope, funnily enough Kirkman is now working on Transformers.
Kirkman being able to juggle his stuff into actual selling properties is gud, cuz he's still at heart about them stories.
Ironic
There's a bigger audience for Sonic than TMNT. If IDW could figure out how to monetize Sonic, it might save the whole company.
Right now, their biggest problem is distribution. It's easier to find it on piracy sites than on Kindle, and $4 per issue is too expensive. They'd make more money by making Sonic free-to-read and charging $1/month for early access.
Their biggest market is the direct market the same with every other comic publisher
Sonicgays don't use the direct market
Sonic could be a 10/10 masterpiece comic that could perform the Herculean feat and satisfy every Sonic fan and it still wouldn't sell because it has little overlap with people who actually do buy comics
Because licenseshitters aren't actually comic fans
Also floppies fricking suck to collect, trades go out of print too quickly, it's too fricking expensive, and going to comic stores sucks shit, actually.
True experience.
>Their biggest market is the direct market
Their biggest market is tiny. They sell, what, 10-20 thousand copies per issue? That's maybe $40,000 in revenue after everyone else has taken their cut. There are Patreon artists who make more than that.
>They're more likely to still pirate it anyways
They'd be more likely to start reading it on the official website, and actually consider paying for it once they're caught up. There's a reason free-to-play games are a billion dollar market. Piracy is a service problem, and IDW's service is shit.
>They'd make more money by making Sonic free-to-read and charging $1/month for early access.
They're more likely to still pirate it anyways
get woke, go broke
hahahaha
t. comincsgate
What I find funny about the gays who argue that GWGB isn't real fingerpoint to pretty much everything else other than their new-age religion fricking everything up. As if to say that woketards are inherently shit writers and not very intelligent storytellers, and that if smarter people were at the helm of their cult then people would be more willing to excuse it.
IDW Sonic is plagued by poor writing and very strict mandates. Most of the fans of the original characters don't even read the book, they like the characters based on their headcanon perception of the characters based on one panel screencaps on twitter.
How dare you not like the mandates. Don't you understand that if Sega slackens up even slightly, it will immediately cause Penders-tier autism to happen?
Please sell Sonic back to Archie.
Archie would laugh at anyone begging them to take Sonic back
They do not want Sonic back
Would they? Riverdale has ended so I can see them crawling back to the Sonic well.
>crawling back to the Sonic well.
Jettisoning licenseshit unironically saved them
Did it? I never see them selling books anymore. What are they even doing now?
>Did it?
World's Unite almost killed them
To be fair at this point Archie is essentially a zombie company. The only thing they can do these days is release compilations of their old books and shitty horror one-shots.
So, is there anything new to say besides the fact that licenseshitters don't buy comics?
So, if IDW does go down at some point, will SEGA just pretend it wasn't canon?
It was never canon. Nothing pushed by Sega of America is canon.
They barely acknowledge it in the first place. Tangle and Whisper are in a small noncanon mobile game (even then they are really neglected compared to the mainline characters, only Whisper has 1 alt costume) and a small missable sentence of dialogue in Frontiers mentioning Tangle. Hell, that one single line apparently isn't even in the Japanese version.
Sega will put an assload of advertising for LEGO sets but will never advertise the comics. Even Archie got more promotion through Mega Collection than IDW ever got.
Yes, but at least it's nominally canon.
If they get another comic afterwards, I wonder if we'll go through this song and dance again.
I could single handedly save this company (the publishing arm at least) with three separate and distinct comics.
They’d rather hire people who want to push sociopolitical agendas on young children and teenagers.
When will people accept that comics simply aren't popular anymore?
They’re more popular than ever. The comics most American companies are making simply don’t appeal to an audience that reads comics. It’s an imaginary gender neutral 15-50 socially progressive yet emotionally stunted consumer with expendable income and an interest in comics that validate the experiences of selfdisenfranchised they/them’s.
Manga is more popular than ever, but the American comic industry hasn't caught up on that very easy, very successful business model and continues to desperately rely on variant covers, new "#1" issues every fricking week, big crossover events, and just generally being fricking miserable to read, follow, or pay attention to.
I love how you couldn’t just say you’re right and add on, you had to frame it as if you disagreed. The simple fact is sequential comics are more popular than ever.
I love how you had to be a pedantic homosexual because you want to pretend you can't understand the difference between comics made and owned by western companies with interests in bolstering their own media portfolio, and comics being localized from a foreign market, and why that distinction matters on Cinemaphile in a thread about a western comics publisher's financial problems. People buying every volume of Demon Slayer does nothing to help IDW.
Sonicsisters.....I don't feel so good........
Just die already. Free the Sonic franchise from its suffering.
You guys act like Marvel and DC are doing any better
They're not doing as bad as IDW, at minimum.
They're not literally verging on bankruptcy like IDW is.
Marvel and DC can license out their game and movie rights, and have big parent companies.
I think they will only drop sonic if they don't have the cash for the licence. They're ok enough on cash reserves, for at least the next few months.
Makes sense, comics are not popular anymore with kids, which is this companie's main demographic. The only people who even reads these comics are sunlight-deprived sonic nerds.
Poor idw
Even if IDW manages to scrape by, how likely is it that the Sonic comic is one of the first ones to be dropped ?
Horses and D&D would probably go first
Probably Godzilla is next since it doesn't even have an ongoing
Whatever happens, IDW will do their best to keep TMNT
Oh noes
Will the tmnt saturday morning adventures be okay? That's all IDW has that I care about.
I don't know