Dc comics'generation one-shots

[thunderbolt]

wonder if Marvel will learn anything from the beatdown the New Warriors trailer got on Youtube.

[MRP]

Diamond might not be coming back from this one.

Penguin/Random House made a serious run at buying Diamond before all this went down. Geppi refused. Reportedly, they repeated the offer when Diamond announced it was suspending receiving new books, and Geppi refused.

If true, and Geppi thought this was the end of Diamond, he would have sold in a heartbeat, even if just to get out from the debt that would be incurred if Diamond went out of business. But this tells me that Geppi thinks Diamond is in a position to survive the storm and resume activity on the other side. He's actually a pretty good businessman, and he has been willing to take short term hits to his company in order to enable the industry as a whole to survive in the past (he floated a lot of debt owed him an extended a lot of credit to individual shop owners after the speculator crash in the 90s-hundreds if not thousands of shops went under at that time, something like 40% of all shops, but the number would have been closer to 75% of all shops if it weren't for Geppi's efforts to help them through that crisis by taking losses for Diamond in the short term to allow the industry to survive in the long term). I am not a big fan of Diamond and some of their policies, but Geppi gets painted as the bad guy far too often when the industry has survived this long largely on the shoulders of his efforts.

I think that the industry and the market will look radically different on the other side, but I think Diamond will still be part of the landscape (and Alliance, the major game distributor which is also under the Geppi umbrella and if Diamond goes, so will Alliance, and Haake's, and the several other businesses the hobby industry is built on currently. I am not sure print periodicals well be the primary form of the industry on the other side, but it will not disappear entirely, and neither will Diamond's place in the marketplace.

-M

[fun guy]

Diamond might not be coming back from this one.

ok,i will wait awhile.thanks guys

[thunderbolt]

DC just ordered all work of 5G (and Black Label) books to stop for now according to Bleeding Cool https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-c...on-five-pause/

so you may be waiting some time for those one-shots or anything else 5G related even when Diamond resumes distribution and DC has a printer available to them.

-M

Diamond might not be coming back from this one.

[MRP]

DC just ordered all work of 5G (and Black Label) books to stop for now according to Bleeding Cool https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-c...on-five-pause/

so you may be waiting some time for those one-shots or anything else 5G related even when Diamond resumes distribution and DC has a printer available to them.

-M

[thunderbolt]

Not sure you are going to see anything anytime soon if at all.

[fun guy]

I hope we get an advanced preview of generation one:age of mysteries real soon

[fun guy]

Thanks,Guys,by the way,when will we see interior art from generation one:age of mysteries?
Sorry to ask this question!

[MRP]

Well considering that the Canadian printer that handles most of DC's (and many other publishers) printing is closing for 3 weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that Diamond has announced it will not be accepting any new books form publishers until further notice, the whole industry is pretty much up in the air right now and anything announced will probably be delayed if not cancelled and re-solicited later, and if that happens, all bets are off as to what changes will happen.

This is going to be a time of massive sweeping changes to the comic industry. Many comic retailers may not survive this and when we get to the other side, the comics landscape, business models and infrastructure may look very different, and I am not sure in all this sea of change, the details of one particular book or another will be making headlines or even be a top consideration for people making or reporting the industry news.

-M

[Earth 2 Chris]

Don't be sorry for asking, but there aren't too many folks here who have actual insider comic industry knowledge. I would check the regular comic news sites like Newsarama and Comic Book Resources to see if there are any updates.

The downside is many of those, especially CBR now have many, MANY annoying pop-up ads that make the sites really hard to read and navigate.

Chris

[fun guy]

Now that dan didio no longer works for DC Comics,what is going on with all five generation one-shots?
Sorry to ask this question.