IDW Loses the G.I. Joe and Transformers Comic Licenses

IDW Publishing turned the fifth-most fashionable comedian ebook writer in America on the energy of diversifications of beloved franchises like Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Orphan Black, and CSI. But now two of its hottest sequence are being taken away: The firm will lose each the Transformers and G.I. Joe licenses on the finish of this 12 months.

The two franchises have been cornerstones of IDW’s physique of labor for the majority of the final twenty years. The firm acquired the Transformers license in 2005 and G.I. Joe in 2008, and since then have printed over 75 separate sequence, miniseries, and one-shots for them (the Transformers make up the overwhelming majority of these books). It’s a significant blow for IDW, which already misplaced the rights to make all-ages Star Wars and Marvel sequence final 12 months.

But it’s not all dangerous information. IDW nonetheless has a 12 months’s value of Joe and Transformers content material to place out, together with G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #300, the comedian written by Larry Hama which originated over at Marvel within the mid-Eighties. Plus, The Hollywood Reporter reviews (in Hollywood) that IDW shall be maintaining different Hasbro-owned IPs, together with Dungeons & Dragons and My Little Pony.

You may assume that the 2 comics would head to Marvel, on condition that Hasbro already has an extremely shut relationship with the corporate because it makes merchandise primarily based on the writer’s superhero comics and Marvel Studios’ live-action work, and each firms additionally work in tandem with Lucasfilm. But final we heard, Hasbro was speaking to The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment about probably taking on the 2 franchises.

If you’re a fan, don’t fear, as a result of somebody shall be making extra Transformers and G.I. Joe comics ultimately. Just not IDW.

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