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Just a few weeks ago, a team of comic publishing executives – Dinesh Shamdasani, Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson, Josh Johns, and Atom Freeman – unveiled their new publishing brand Bad Idea, announcing they would only sell their comics in twenty qualifying comic book stores, increasing to fifty in the first year No variants, no digital,[...]

Yesterday was a good day for Dynamite CEO Nick Barrucci and Bad Idea CEO Dinesh Shamdasani at ComicsPRO Barrucci gave a Keynote speech that went down very well, and Shamdasani got a lot of attention for Bad Idea with his address to comic book retailers. Barrucci mentioned the first comic he bought, the Marvel Comics Life[...]

Bad Idea launched, announcing they would only sell their comics in twenty qualifying comic book stores, increasing to fifty in the first year No digital, no collections, no Diamond distribution We wondered how that would go over at ComicsPRO. Well, they had to make changes For a start, they are increasing the first wave to fifty[...]

I have no idea where you can order Bad Idea Comics' first comic, Eniac, scheduled for May 2020 That's why they have launched this as-yet-unfilled map of stores that will sell their comics Just twenty stores at first, growing to fifty. But that hasn't stopped them launching their May 2020 solicitations with details for Eniac #1[...]

Bad Idea is going to the ComicsPRO summit, you know, the retailer activist group's meeting, freash after announcing that the new publisher will be selling comics from only twenty stores that fulfil its stringent criteria, growing to only fifty stores by the end of the year. People who are not part of that twenty are going[...]

May 6th, will see the publication of the headline-making publisher Bad Idea Comics' first title in twenty select comic book stores And nowhere else Eniac #1 – the oversized, 40-page first issue of Matt Kindt, Doug Braithwaite, colourist Diego Rodriguez, and cover artist Lewis LaRosa A prestige-format limited series for $3.99, it will aim to[...]

"The one thing that will wash away all sins is if the books are really, really, really, really good." –Dinesh Shamdasani, from a Multiversity interview Dinesh Shamdasani and the pre-DMG New Valiant crew (Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson, and Josh Johns) made a splash last Thursday by announcing the scope of their new project called Bad Idea. Bad[...]

Bleeding Cool has been repeatedly breaking news about the new New York-based publisher Bad Idea Comics, formed from former executives of Valiant Entertainment But there's one place you won't read about the publisher – and that's on Valiant's own associated Facebook pages, such as Valiant Comic Fans Administrator Christopher Amundson made it very clear If[...]

Bleeding Cool has been talking about Bad Idea, the new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Hunter Gorinson, Warren Simons and Joshua Jones for what seems like ages now, spinning out of the buyout of Valiant by DMG Here's everything we now know about what they have planned and their initial comic books Doesn't seem like[...]

For months, there's been rumours – and some not so subtle teasing – that former Valiant Comics executives Dinesh Shamdasani, Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson and Josh Johns have been building something new and disruptive to mount their return to comics publishing. It looks like they're calling that something Bad Idea – a new comic book publishing house that's already racked up an[...]

 Many people would say it's probably a bad idea, though Hunter and I love comics more than anything in the world  Hunter's explaining where our Thursday starts, where our Sunday ends  All I'm thinking about is all the comic books I'm buying in between and have already bought, and sitting up here, looking at them[...]