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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,[...]

Bleeding Cool was the first to break the Bad Idea news that last week's Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors included a brand new and exclusive comic book strip from Bad Idea Comics, The First Supper by Mark Waid and David Lapham And we have a good chunk of it reproduced below. What we didn't know[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool scooped the news that the June edition of Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly Previews catalogue arrives in comic shops and digitally today, would feature a new Bad Idea comic book, The First Supper, by Mark Waid and David Lapham, as an eight-page comic book printed in the catalogue itself, from page 485 onwards[...]

Bad Idea Comics has updated their destination comic store list, which once was made of one hundred stores permitted to sell Bad Idea Comics, distributed directly from Bad Idea, with all manner of hoops to go through In the UK, that was one store, the London branch of Forbidden Planet But now it includes all[...]

But next week's catalogue will feature a new Bad Idea comic book, The First Supper, by Mark Waid and David Lapham, as an eight-page comic book in the catalogue itself, from page 485. Might this be Bad Idea Part Two? Publishing comic books to comic stores, not actually distributed to them through Diamond but actually inside[...]

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 Last year they announced that they were ceasing publishing operations The last official word from[...]

Bad Idea Comics has just issued the following message, which reads "Comics, once again, needs us.  BAD IDEA will return…in two parts Details tomorrow." The Return of Bad Idea Comics Tomorrow – But What About Valiant? Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Joshua Johns, Warren Simons, and Karl Bollers. A direct-to-retailer[...]

If you were the first person to buy the first issue of a Bad Idea comic book at a comic store, you got a Bad Idea First Customer Gold Pin Since then, owners have been able to trade them for exclusive comic books, Werewolf by Peter Milligan and Robert Gill, and Retirement Plan by Matt Kindt and Juan Jose Ryp, Bunsen Beaver 2 And The Further Adventures Of His[...]

Bad Idea Comics, the comics publisher that is pretending it shut up shop last year, is launching a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive comic, Hero Trade: Sacred Heart by Matt Kindt and David Lapham Hero Trade was the first publication put out by Bad Idea Comics as a secret ashcan, and they are sticking to their[...]

Gaslamp Lumpia Factory 423 F St, 8-10pm. SATURDAY, 23rd July Bad Idea Comics Tiki Party, Bali Hai, 2230 Shelter Island Dr,  7-10pm Entrance only with Bad Idea First Customer Pin and RSVP Atom! Freeman will be on the door checking and you don't want to mess with him RSVP as well (MOVED FROM THURSDAY) The Crossrip Party, the[...]

If you were the first person to buy the first issue of a Bad Idea comic book at a comic store, you got a Bad Idea First Customer Gold Pin Since then owners have been able to trade them for exclusive comic books, Werewolf by Peter Milligan and Robert Gill, and Retirement Plan by Matt Kindt and[...]

For a comic book publisher that is no longer meant to be making comic books (although it obviously is) Bad Idea Comics seems to be hiring enough folk Promoting the fact that they are recruiting for a Managing Editor, Assistant Editor and Sales Manager Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh[...]

Bleeding Cool reported on Bad Idea Comics' pop-up store at the South Carolina SC Comicon last weekend, selling Bad Idea doughnuts for $20 each, with a free copy of a new comic book, Bad Idea Donuts Presents: Bunsen Beaver And His Pal Tree They sold out on day one, and copies have been selling on[...]

Bad Idea Comics have a pop-up store at the South Carolina SC Comicon this weekend, selling Bad Idea doughnuts for $20 each, with a free copy of a new comic book, Bad Idea Donuts Presents: Bunsen Beaver And His Pal Tree. Photo from Bad Idea, the comic and doughnut both signed by Robert Venditti. Bleeding Cool has[...]

Bad Idea Comics will have a pop-up store at the South Carolina SC Comicon this weekend, selling Bad Idea doughnuts for $20 each, with a free copy of a new comic book, Bad Idea Donuts Presents: Bunsen Beaver And His Pal Tree And they have provided a disingenuous list of frequently asked questions about the[...]