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Bad Idea published the series, which means it's only available in single issues and must contend with the publisher's contentious PR. Bad Idea teaser, various artists Depending on your kindness to Bad Idea, contentious can be replaced with effective or exasperating Or "probably illegal," depending on how serious they were about selling "jobs" at the company[...]

Last year Joe Quesada, former Marvel Comics CCO and Editor-in-Chief announced he was creating a new cover for Bad Idea Comics Or Stop Bad Idea as they were insisting on calling themselves for their latest crowdfunding venture, contributing a cover exclusively to the Stop Bad Idea Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign It would appear on the Hero Trade[...]

Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names The new rebranding has seen them, continue to launch PR stunts to a) get attention and b) raise money by[...]

Burning Man #1, the new comic out today from Bad Idea in their select stores is a choose-your-own-adventure story by Peter Milligan and Juan Jose Ryp However, it appears that it goes beyond the comic book on offer Those Bad Idea fans who got the "All-In" sticker when they preordered the slate of Bad Idea[...]

Just earlier this week, we were asking: What's next for Oni Press? Well, in a major shake-up for the industry (and Bleeding Cool Power List if I ever do another one), Oni Press/Lion Forge has just named comics publishing veteran Hunter Gorinson to the role of President & Publisher, putting the former Boom!, Valiant and Bad[...]

Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names Partly this included not going through comic book distributors (except in the UK) and going direct to a select 200-plus[...]

Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names The new rebranding has seen them, continue to launch PR stunts to a) get attention and b) raise money by[...]

Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names The new rebranding has seen them, continue to launch PR stunts to a) get attention and b) raise money by[...]

Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names The new rebranding of Bad Idea Comics as Bad Idea Two: Part One goes on wide general[...]

Bad Idea Comics has decided to exhibit at Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend as This Is Not Bad Idea, at Booth #2013 Because, of course, they are fighting to Stop Bad Idea, so there is no way they can actually be at the show Even though they are. Two Bad Idea Comics, Only 146 Copies Of Each,[...]

Joe Quesada, former Marvel Comics CCO and Editor-in-Chief announced he is creating a new cover for Bad Idea comics Or Stop Bad Idea as they now insist on calling themselves After recently announcing that he is returning to DC Comics for a series of high-profile Batman covers, as well as rumours that he is doing[...]

Bleeding Cool previously reported Bad Idea Comics was promising to close up shop entirely if they raise $2.6 million on Kickstarter, as well as funding a new graphic novel and hardcover volume.  And that they were using New York Comic-Con to try and get themselves shut down in the process, rebranding itself as Stop Bad[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Bad Idea Comics PR LITG: Stop Bad Idea in the Top Ten stories yesterday Raise $2.6 Million On Kickstarter To Close Down Bad Idea Comics Kim Jung Gi Dies, Aged 47, On His Way To New York Comic Con DC Reveals New Superman Family Members & Outfits – No Capes? Alan[...]

Stop Bad Idea Protest Placards STOP BAD IDEA will be exhibiting at booth 3419 and will have two hundred picket signs available for those who are committed to protest against them, and protestors who comply will get two free totally exclusive comic books Not just covers, comic books In the past, these kind of comics have[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. LITG: Stop Bad Idea in the Top Ten stories yesterday Raise $2.6 Million On Kickstarter To Close Down Bad Idea Comics J Michael Straczynski on Babylon 5 Reboot/The CW: "We Ain't Dead Yet" DC Comics Has… Two Jokers Now? BatSpoilers All Round Two New Looks For A Superman In Dark[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that Bad Idea Comics was promising to close up shop entirely if they raise $2.6 million on Kickstarter, as well as funding a new graphic novel and hardcover volume Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comic publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano[...]

Sunday, the 9th of October: Bad Idea/Shortboxed Dead Dog Party 7-10pm, American Whiskey, 247 W 30th Street A party for comic book industry insiders held on Sunday night at a currently unidentified  Manhattan bar with a lot of comics history (too much to hope it's Mollys, I guess) We understand that the guest list is very[...]

Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names.  Last year Bad Idea announced that they were ceasing publishing operations[...]

One of them involves Ice T and Coco, another has Bad Idea's dead dog Here are a few of the bigger and badder parties at the show next week If you have more to add, let me know. Wednesday, the 5th of October: GeekLifeRules: NY Cosplay Cabaret – Road to NYCC 2022 8-9.30pm Producers Club Theaters 358[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that  Bad Idea Comics had told its 230+ destination comic book stores that only the orders for the first two titles of the new run, Orc Island  by Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli and Matt Hollingsworth, and Escape From Wyoming #1 by Robert Venditti and Jorge Monlongo, made by end of play today would get first printings[...]

Bad Idea is the new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Karl Bollers, and Anthony Militano A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names.  Well, Bad Idea Comics has now told its 230+ destination comic book stores that only[...]

All day, Bad Idea Comics has been revealing details of Bad Idea Two Part One, a bunch of new comic books launching in late 2022 and early 2023 in a number of different formats, ongoing series, mini-series, one-shots and weekly comics And even as retailers tell me they are getting lots of calls about the[...]

Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, with They're All Terrible, The Ends, Escape from Wyoming, The Finder, Werewolf & Society Of Fearless Frontiersmen,  Orc Island, and now Burning Man, Bad Idea's first ongoing series, starting on the 28th of December, a supernatural horror choose-your-own-adventure by[...]

Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, with They're All Terrible, The Ends, Escape from Wyoming, The Finder, Werewolf & Society Of Fearless Frontiersmen and now Orc Island, a four-issue weekly dark fantasy heist comic starting on the 2nd of November, by Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli and[...]

Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, with They're All Terrible, The Ends, Escape from Wyoming and now a double feature, the previously-published-via-First-Pin-redemption Werewolf by Peter Milligan and Robert Gill, accompanied by Society Of Fearless Frontiersmen by Robert Venditti and Tomas Giorello And we get[...]

Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, with They're All Terrible, The Ends, Escape from Wyoming and now The Finder. A superhero, sci-fi, horror and espionage one-shot from Christos Gage, Tomas Giorello and Diego Rodriguez And we get our first look right here[...]

Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, firstly They're All Terrible and then the The Ends The blind pre-orders for Bad Idea Comics to qualify for… a sticker… are done Now you get to see what the seven new books from Bad Idea Two:[...]

It might be a Bad Idea to start off a bunch of comic book announcements with one called They're All Terrible and then follow with one called The Ends The blind pre-orders for Bad Idea Comics to qualify for… a sticker… are done Now you get to see what the seven new books from Bad[...]

It might be a Bad Idea to start off a bunch of comic book announcements with one called They're All Terrible The blind pre-orders for Bad Idea Comics to qualify for… a sticker… are done Now you get to see what the seven new books from Bad Idea Two: Part One are And it seems[...]

Tomorrow is the last day that readers and collectors can pre-order all seven of the Bad Idea Two: Part One new comic book line, without knowing who is drawing them, who is writing them or what they are about, all to qualify for a promotional sticker that might, one day, be redeemable for something else,[...]