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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2021 16:16:23 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2021 19:53:58 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2021 5:14:41 GMT
Watch "DARK HORSE COMICS purchased by BASED Embracer Group! LMAO AWESOME!" on YouTube
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2021 5:16:40 GMT
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 26, 2021 4:39:23 GMT
I can't believe what I just read.
The press release names these as important company owned properties.... "The Mask, Time Cop, Father’s Day, and Ghost".
None of that is needing a new movie to be made.
The other properties they named are owned by other people.
This Embracer Group wasted their money.
I did not know that Mike Richardson only owned 20% and a Chinese company had majority stake in Dark Horse.
That tells me he's been cashing out on the company longer than I thought.
I'd say this is the beginning of the end. When the Embracer Group realizes their is no money to be made and no assets of any significant value, they are going to cut their losses and shut things down. Nobody spends that kind of money just to bleed out more.
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Post by Admin on Dec 27, 2021 1:45:03 GMT
Mike Richardson's stake was less than 20%. The COO had a piece of the company also. They sold 80% of the company a few years ago to the Chinese to get money to make movies and TV shows. The Chinese government may have forced this sale as China's stock market is on the verge of collapse with the bankruptcy of Evergrand. See all those ships circling around the ports in California? Those are almost all Evergrand ships.
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 31, 2021 7:30:29 GMT
Mike Richardson's stake was less than 20%. The COO had a piece of the company also. They sold 80% of the company a few years ago to the Chinese to get money to make movies and TV shows. The Chinese government may have forced this sale as China's stock market is on the verge of collapse with the bankruptcy of Evergrand. See all those ships circling around the ports in California? Those are almost all Evergrand ships. I lost all respect and confidence for Dark Horse in 2010. They hired Jim Shooter to revamp the Gold Key characters. They did no promotion. The hired an artist that drew in a noir style to illustrate a Solar script that called for holograms of a nuclear power plant. Nobody thought to reign back Jim's Magnus script with had a strong sexual slant to it. It was doomed from the start and I had very high hopes for it.
No articles came out on the revamp until the day the comics were delivered to the stores. The only customer that matters for a comic to be successful is the guy at the comic store ordering the comics. You don't promote a comic after the comic shop has already ordered the comics. You have to get the comic shops excited about the comic before they order the books. Once their order is in, it's a little late to promote the books on the date of sale in the comic shop.
That was also when i got fed up with variants. I was going to put 1000% support behind the revamp, but seeing a C2E2 variant come out that was only available at the show.... it actually made me angry. I'm supposed to jump through hoops to get a comic limited to one show just so i can have a complete set? I'm supposed to pay 10 times what it should be worth. The only difference is that some colors were swapped on the cover? That was just pathetic. I know it's common in the industry today, but that's not what I want my collection to look like. I don't want to own the generic least valuable comics while the more desirable ones require me to be a horse following a carrot on a stick dangling in front of me.
After I summarized my gripes to other collectors about Dark Horse's ineptitude, I read about BWS's gripes with Dark horse and saw that he had the same exact gripes with them 10 years prior.
It also dawned upon me that every publisher that relied on licensed properies had failed as publisher. Dell, Charlton, Now, Innovation.... all of them. I've just been waiting for them to die, because I feel it is inevitable.
I knew about China's economy, but I did not know about Evergrand specifically.
I read about China's partal ownership and thjat just explained why they are still around.
They've had quite a bit of negative press due to sexual misconduct of their employees.
I'm betting Mike Richardson is ready to retire but wants to maintin a nice nest egg.
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