Comments on: Dark Horse inventory spotlighted again http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/comics212-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-is-it-time-for-another-post-bitching-about-dark-horse/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mary-zi http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/comics212-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-is-it-time-for-another-post-bitching-about-dark-horse/#comment-734962 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:08:49 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/comics212-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-is-it-time-for-another-post-bitching-about-dark-horse/#comment-734962 <a href="http://index1.tolant.com" rel="nofollow">best wsternhotels</a> best wsternhotels

]]> by: Mark Clapham http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/comics212-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-is-it-time-for-another-post-bitching-about-dark-horse/#comment-151378 Fri, 11 May 2007 19:35:48 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/comics212-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-is-it-time-for-another-post-bitching-about-dark-horse/#comment-151378 Titan Books in the UK printed massive amounts of Buffy and Angel TPs at the height of the Buffy boom, and they're still clogging up bargain bins in comic shops and bookstores over here. There's a ton going for less than half price in the basement of Forbidden Planet in London, for a start. I'm not sure whether 'Season Eight', which is very much a separate, more blatantly 'canonical' comic, is going to ignite too much interest in comics that drop in gaps between previous seasons and episodes, and which don't have the magic Whedon touch. Still, Dark Horse could have at least made a cursory effort to move some old stock, and they don't seem to have even done that. Odd. Titan Books in the UK printed massive amounts of Buffy and Angel TPs at the height of the Buffy boom, and they’re still clogging up bargain bins in comic shops and bookstores over here. There’s a ton going for less than half price in the basement of Forbidden Planet in London, for a start.

I’m not sure whether ‘Season Eight’, which is very much a separate, more blatantly ‘canonical’ comic, is going to ignite too much interest in comics that drop in gaps between previous seasons and episodes, and which don’t have the magic Whedon touch.

Still, Dark Horse could have at least made a cursory effort to move some old stock, and they don’t seem to have even done that. Odd.

]]> by: Joe Williams http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/comics212-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-is-it-time-for-another-post-bitching-about-dark-horse/#comment-150723 Thu, 10 May 2007 22:24:43 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/comics212-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-is-it-time-for-another-post-bitching-about-dark-horse/#comment-150723 Wow. I find this really interesting especially since it's happened more than once on a big project. Butcher doesn't even mention Hellboy, which IIRC had the same problems of shortages as the movie interest was at its peak. It has to make a completely unknowledgable outsider like myself wonder if the company doesn't need to borrow money, bring in outside investors, etc. I know that's a dicey situation and I remember Fantagraphics discussing that at one point when their financial situation was precarious and opting against it (perhaps the Kitchen Sink story serves as a reminder of how dangerous that can be). Other companies have been pretty public when it's come to such problems but Dark Horse has been mum. Have the distributor bankruptcies affected their ability to ratchet up their press runs on books or have they just been burned so often they've been scared out of taking chances? The funny thing I keep reading about this in the comics blogosphere but haven't seen anyone actually call up Mike Richardson and try to ask him. I understand given their attempts to get more projects launched in Hollywood that going public with financial woes may not help but at some point I'd think it would need to be addressed and I'd like to see someone asking the questions to people who might actually have answers. Whither comics journalism? Paging Michael Dean... Wow. I find this really interesting especially since it’s happened more than once on a big project. Butcher doesn’t even mention Hellboy, which IIRC had the same problems of shortages as the movie interest was at its peak. It has to make a completely unknowledgable outsider like myself wonder if the company doesn’t need to borrow money, bring in outside investors, etc. I know that’s a dicey situation and I remember Fantagraphics discussing that at one point when their financial situation was precarious and opting against it (perhaps the Kitchen Sink story serves as a reminder of how dangerous that can be). Other companies have been pretty public when it’s come to such problems but Dark Horse has been mum. Have the distributor bankruptcies affected their ability to ratchet up their press runs on books or have they just been burned so often they’ve been scared out of taking chances? The funny thing I keep reading about this in the comics blogosphere but haven’t seen anyone actually call up Mike Richardson and try to ask him. I understand given their attempts to get more projects launched in Hollywood that going public with financial woes may not help but at some point I’d think it would need to be addressed and I’d like to see someone asking the questions to people who might actually have answers. Whither comics journalism? Paging Michael Dean…

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