I just had dinner with a friend who is an ex IDW employee, gave me the run down on some good gossip, how they had to bend over to keep the TMNT license and more
Bothering her at a convention will help her in terms of pushing her victim narrator, comic book fans are evil misogynists etc. Leave her alone, she's irrelevant and not worth it
Great video!! I'm probably dropping TMNT and I am done with Star Trek after Star Trek 500. I recently re-read a lot of my 90s Marvel Star Trek comics and you know what? They were really good.
Thank you for adding that nickname next to Heather. Glad to see I'm not the only one that sees her as the grim reaper of comic as every brand she enters, something bad happens to it. Look how fast Valiant Comics died the moment she was hired for that company. Side note: If it wasn't for Free Comic Book Day, I wouldn't know Monster High was adapted to a comic and it's G1 (the best imo).
IDW: "Thank God for TMNT!" I dropped 3 or 4 titles because of Antos continually trying to be edgy and offensive rather than focusing on selling comics. Fortunately, one of those titles, Ragnarok by Simonson, is going to a new publisher (so there's a nother loss for them).
She has no business Even writing a comic when I see people like her it just shows how far the comic book industry has really fallen these days because of people like her and the rest of these activists they keep on hiring that don't know jack s*** about these characters or the source material it's all about pushing their political agendas and beliefs in these comics thinking that this is what comic book fans want and it's the complete opposite of what we want to see in comics they wonder why Japanese magna is beating American comics in sales because they keep on putting out trash that nobody wants thankfully I got a whole collection of old marvel, Dc an image comics to read it's a hell of a lot better than what we get now.
You know, when everything fails yet Heather Antos remains insulated and rises, makes it not that hard to believe that t-shirt might be on the money and there is some malicious dark force behind her destruction 😅😅😅
I guess its good if you are reading on the go like manga. But I like comics/tpb/gn and I read them at home. I will being a manga or a book outside though. There's room in the market for all the formats imo.
I feel absolutely no sympathy for them. They knew exactly what they were getting hiring an inept, talentless, idealogue like Heather Antos, and they had a real-world example the direction their company would take under her leadership in Valiant. You reap what you sow.
Certainly doesn't look like the years of professional failure after failure adding up or the stress eating has gotten to Milkshake Girl at all. Nope. Not at all.
If all the publishers had pitched in years ago to set up a fake office for a fake comic book company and paid her to work there, they probably could have saved themselves a fortune.
They are fine, but not essential to IDW's pockets. Beside, Sega can simply switch editor as they owns the.characters and it universe. So not the same situation as Archie if they want to keep doing the comic in the west.
I used to buy the IDW Kelvin timeline series, which I thought was superior Star Trek comics written consistently by Mike Johnson through the whole run. It got canceled, Mike Johnson barely writes anything anymore, and pretty much everything IDW ST in the last 5 years has been pants. I'm frankly surprised they managed to get a renewed licence for them.
I’ve seen an editor at a con. Former Marvel editor/colorist Renee Witterstaetter was pushing some indie book she edited. I asked her if she was the colorist on it but nope, just editor. She was the only one there repping the book. It was very weird.
@@jeromemaida4933 Because as was said in the video, it’s not something you generally, if ever see, and for there not to be anyone from the creative team is weird. Usually if someone is an editor at a con, they’ve done something else on the book creatively.
@@chrisdymmel2934 Well, it's a special situation. Michael Golden is one of her clients, for example, and he detests doing press or panels, so she does them for him.
Maybe the talented fired people will get picked up by Skybound, Ghost Machine, or Rippaverse. Getting fired and picked up by better companies could be the best thing to happen to some of these talents.
You seriously think Rippaverse will even be around for long after the $5 sale and Eric laughing at his customers for "thinking they are valuable". He just compared his comics to a cheap Walmart graphic novel and a McDonald's big mac trying to defend him screwing his customers.
🤣😂🤣 Yeah, the guy making money and moves hand over fist is going to go out of business because he had a successful sale on back stock I've only heard people who hate Eric July and don't buy his comics anyway complain about, not my fellow customers. Am I supposed to be mad someone got a deal on an old comic sitting unsold in a warehouse? Good. More people into the universe.
@potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420 He didn't even empty the warehouse as he wabted and devalued everyone's comics to the point where no one will want to pay the $35 or $18 asking price because they know that he will discount it again. If people know that Eric July will put their comics at $5, why buy a CGC or the comic at asking price when you can wait. Hell, even the shirts and other merch were $5. So why buy any of it if it will just get discounted again? Bigger question: why buy from someone that hates you?
I paid full price for the comic for the same reason I've always paid full price for a comic when they almost all go to the back issues bins anyway, because I wanted it when it came out and make sure I had a copy in case it sold out. I really don't care about devaluing your comic books. If it's a classic it will be valuable in 30 years, if not oh well. Comic speculators are the biggest scourge on the industry behind writers that hate their core audience. They're the plague that causes infinite relaunches and variant covers to sell gimmick books to suckers rather than good stories to long term readers. And what makes you think Eric July hates me? I've had nothing but pleasant interactions with him the couple times he responded to a comment on his channels. Hates me? Explain.
Godzilla will leave IDW because Tojo and Santos may lose her job soon, but as much as I hate to say it, they may go out of business. Should have listened to the laws of Quark’s species from DS9
Heather Anton the destroyers of IPs and publishers. Had to hold my nose and then read through the Dark Horse release of “Planetes” by Yukimura Makoto, with the rationalization that Heather’s only bad touch of the manga was to say that Heather liked this manga. Planetes is a very good manga series, but I wonder how many sales were cancelled or stopped because of seeing the quotation on the inside from “She Who Plagues.” Not to be confused with any Slaaneshi references.
Maybe it's not so much Heather Antos as it is that if you're dumb enough to hire and promote Heather Antos, there's no way all your other business decisions aren't really stupid as well. The same way looking down the barrel of a gun to see if it's loaded isn't bad luck per se, but it does portend things to come.
To be fair to Heather, IDW was already in ruins and in-debt before she came along. I do wonder how much longer IDW will be around. They lasted longer than I thought.
Monster High didn't sell because it was a sequel to a Novel every fan hated, you'd be confused to read the comic because it wasn't a one and done series of comics, the art wasn't even that good🤷♀️ BTW I'd read an LGBT comic, I'm a huge fan of Shatterstar and some gay characters on soap show are really interesting, but I'm not going to care if the story doesn't make sense or is just badly written🤦♀️
Old Monster High was kinda cool, G1 was edgy if I'm remembering correctly. G2 was ok and it kinda went down hill with the reboot. G4 of MLP was good and G5 also wasn't very good.
Wes just kinda tells it like it is 😂 If something is bad he'll say it he tells the truth if it's good he also will give praise as well. That's what I respect about this channel it encourages objective thinking. If you are overly sensitive, you just shouldn't watch this channel 😂📺. I made a post on league of Comics about Wes and everyone almost immediately wanted to ban me 😂🤦🏾♂️
The original run of IDW TMNT did get infected a slight bit. Still the rogen's TMNT movie is still a great benchmark 2 see whom r true TMMNT fans and whom r the fake fans (and the actual bigots), like with Batman: Caped Crusader cartoon is for Batman Well the 1st run of IDWTransformers had some weird parts around Arcee, but that was because the writer tried putting things in comics that clearly didn't know much aboot. So nothing 2 do same disease that have infected Marvel and DC.
Fox News is late to the intensional burning down of the Comic Industry. Wes and others have been covering this problem, For some time now. So you can get back to you NPR Cat Ladies reviewing Indie Books. Created by your favorite Writers. Cucks Weirdos and Fat Women!
The Milkshake Mafia:
"If you don't like our politics, don't buy our books!"
Also The Milkshake Mafia:
"Why aren't you buying our books?" 😭😭
It’s so mysterious because _everybody_ they know likes their politics (and they don’t buy their books either).
I swear, someone's gonna start an "Antos Detected" list soon...
When Heather returns to her natural hair color, the hair dye has run out, you know that times are tough at IDW.
I just had dinner with a friend who is an ex IDW employee, gave me the run down on some good gossip, how they had to bend over to keep the TMNT license and more
You can always send details to wesdigscomics@gmail.com. I'm very discreet with sources.
Do it, we would love to hear it.
Spill the dirt, bro. The people deserve to know! ✊️
Tell it
Re-arrange the letters in her name:
It spells "Satan the Hero".
Weird, right?
That's crazy! How did you figure that out?!
*She can't keep getting away with it!*
Heather Antos, destroyer of worlds.
Definitely destroyer of comics anyway.
And looking at her more recent pics, also destroyer of milkshakes
The Unicron of the Comic Book Universe 🪐💥🔥💥😮
Heather Antos must have dirt on someone at Idw cos she’s survived way too many waves of firings and layoffs.
I know Heather wrecked IDW and Valiant. Wasn't there another comic company she left in ruins?
Marvel.
@@longtsun8286Axel Alonzo did that. He felt he should've been higher up in the company, and stopped caring
hey! it's Ya Boi Zack's girlfriend
Bahahaha! Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh.
Ya Soy Zack
Or JDA's
Totally lol!
No think that is Tee.
Would it be rude to ask Heather how it feels to be the grim reaper of comics? She’ll be at a convention near me.
Not rude, but be done at the convention, because you will be kicked out
Edmonton? I thought about it and peek at whom visits her table
@@DavidV978 SF Fan Expo
Bothering her at a convention will help her in terms of pushing her victim narrator, comic book fans are evil misogynists etc.
Leave her alone, she's irrelevant and not worth it
Not at all.
How does she get to keep her job?
It’s hard to believe they’re still there.
Embracing wokism
Whoa, looks like she had one too many milkshakes.
16:00 I held it in until “IDW is in hospice and Heather Antos is Nurse Ratchet” 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
If things don't work out for Heather at IDW it looks like she may have a future playing linebacker for the Giants.
@@jackiechun6540 the Giants are such trash it wouldn't hurt them
Heather has been putting in a lot of overtime recently, with the knife and fork.
🐷 🍴🍽️🍴
I hope Toho yanks the Godzilla license from IDW
Me too. The one Godzilla comic I got was literally unreadable. Like, how do you make Godzilla impossible to read?
Antos must know where the bodies are buried.
Great video!! I'm probably dropping TMNT and I am done with Star Trek after Star Trek 500. I recently re-read a lot of my 90s Marvel Star Trek comics and you know what? They were really good.
Thank you for adding that nickname next to Heather. Glad to see I'm not the only one that sees her as the grim reaper of comic as every brand she enters, something bad happens to it. Look how fast Valiant Comics died the moment she was hired for that company.
Side note: If it wasn't for Free Comic Book Day, I wouldn't know Monster High was adapted to a comic and it's G1 (the best imo).
Antos is a plague ship on the comic industry. Wherever she goes, the industry dies.
IDW: "Thank God for TMNT!"
I dropped 3 or 4 titles because of Antos continually trying to be edgy and offensive rather than focusing on selling comics. Fortunately, one of those titles, Ragnarok by Simonson, is going to a new publisher (so there's a nother loss for them).
Sucks they can't fire her, or else she would call them misogynists. 😑
She has no business Even writing a comic when I see people like her it just shows how far the comic book industry has really fallen these days because of people like her and the rest of these activists they keep on hiring that don't know jack s*** about these characters or the source material it's all about pushing their political agendas and beliefs in these comics thinking that this is what comic book fans want and it's the complete opposite of what we want to see in comics they wonder why Japanese magna is beating American comics in sales because they keep on putting out trash that nobody wants thankfully I got a whole collection of old marvel, Dc an image comics to read it's a hell of a lot better than what we get now.
Now I am become death, destroyer of comic books - Heather Antos 2024
The Unicron of the Comic Book Universe 🪐 🔥 💥 🔥
IDW was already on life support before her. I think she answered the call for some Dr. Kevorkian work.
All going according to plan.
You know, when everything fails yet Heather Antos remains insulated and rises, makes it not that hard to believe that t-shirt might be on the money and there is some malicious dark force behind her destruction 😅😅😅
DMG destroyed Valiant long before Antos showed up. Alien Books is presently trying to resuscitate the line, but it's an uphill battle.
Off topic but Amazon themselves is almost completely sold out of the Watchmen DC Compacts. At least when I checked.
I guess its good if you are reading on the go like manga. But I like comics/tpb/gn and I read them at home. I will being a manga or a book outside though. There's room in the market for all the formats imo.
It takes a special kind of talent to mess up trademarked properties and heather antos seems to be gifted with it
Many thanks Wes and Aaron! Great episode!
It takes years an team effort to build a company, but only minutes and one idiot to sink it back to the ground.
Jordan White is why we got stuck with Antos. She was a work wife, nothing more.
If IDW is hiring Heather Antos, does that mean they are throwing in the towel.
Derpy: Hey, Rainbow DASH! May I HELP writing future MLP comics?
I feel absolutely no sympathy for them. They knew exactly what they were getting hiring an inept, talentless, idealogue like Heather Antos, and they had a real-world example the direction their company would take under her leadership in Valiant. You reap what you sow.
Awesome work mate
Certainly doesn't look like the years of professional failure after failure adding up or the stress eating has gotten to Milkshake Girl at all. Nope. Not at all.
"They're in hospice." 😂😂😂😂😂
Galantos strikes again, I see
Sad..,just sad.😢
If all the publishers had pitched in years ago to set up a fake office for a fake comic book company and paid her to work there, they probably could have saved themselves a fortune.
Putting Heather Antos on anything!? Is like a poison warning ☠️🥫☠️ on a bottle. 😮
That fact that the IDW Sonic comics were not brought up speaks volumes.
They are fine, but not essential to IDW's pockets.
Beside, Sega can simply switch editor as they owns the.characters and it universe. So not the same situation as Archie if they want to keep doing the comic in the west.
@@StellaFangX That's good to hear
Do you think paramount would move their properties to dark horse and leave idw I doubt they'd put TMNT back on image
I used to buy the IDW Kelvin timeline series, which I thought was superior Star Trek comics written consistently by Mike Johnson through the whole run. It got canceled, Mike Johnson barely writes anything anymore, and pretty much everything IDW ST in the last 5 years has been pants.
I'm frankly surprised they managed to get a renewed licence for them.
I’ve seen an editor at a con. Former Marvel editor/colorist Renee Witterstaetter was pushing some indie book she edited. I asked her if she was the colorist on it but nope, just editor. She was the only one there repping the book.
It was very weird.
Why weird? She's an editor and an agent.
@@jeromemaida4933 Because as was said in the video, it’s not something you generally, if ever see, and for there not to be anyone from the creative team is weird.
Usually if someone is an editor at a con, they’ve done something else on the book creatively.
@@chrisdymmel2934 Well, it's a special situation. Michael Golden is one of her clients, for example, and he detests doing press or panels, so she does them for him.
"The Grim Reaper Of Comics."?
that needs to stick...lol
If DC does get the Star Trek license again, I really hope they keep it serious
Maybe the talented fired people will get picked up by Skybound, Ghost Machine, or Rippaverse. Getting fired and picked up by better companies could be the best thing to happen to some of these talents.
You seriously think Rippaverse will even be around for long after the $5 sale and Eric laughing at his customers for "thinking they are valuable". He just compared his comics to a cheap Walmart graphic novel and a McDonald's big mac trying to defend him screwing his customers.
🤣😂🤣
Yeah, the guy making money and moves hand over fist is going to go out of business because he had a successful sale on back stock I've only heard people who hate Eric July and don't buy his comics anyway complain about, not my fellow customers.
Am I supposed to be mad someone got a deal on an old comic sitting unsold in a warehouse? Good. More people into the universe.
@@potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420exactly. That is how the brand grows and gets better traction in the market
@potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420 He didn't even empty the warehouse as he wabted and devalued everyone's comics to the point where no one will want to pay the $35 or $18 asking price because they know that he will discount it again. If people know that Eric July will put their comics at $5, why buy a CGC or the comic at asking price when you can wait.
Hell, even the shirts and other merch were $5. So why buy any of it if it will just get discounted again?
Bigger question: why buy from someone that hates you?
I paid full price for the comic for the same reason I've always paid full price for a comic when they almost all go to the back issues bins anyway, because I wanted it when it came out and make sure I had a copy in case it sold out.
I really don't care about devaluing your comic books. If it's a classic it will be valuable in 30 years, if not oh well. Comic speculators are the biggest scourge on the industry behind writers that hate their core audience. They're the plague that causes infinite relaunches and variant covers to sell gimmick books to suckers rather than good stories to long term readers.
And what makes you think Eric July hates me? I've had nothing but pleasant interactions with him the couple times he responded to a comment on his channels. Hates me? Explain.
I understand there are positions open working in placement for the witness protection program.
Heather Galactos Destroyer of buffets and devourer of milkshakes.
Godzilla will leave IDW because Tojo and Santos may lose her job soon, but as much as I hate to say it, they may go out of business. Should have listened to the laws of Quark’s species from DS9
Marvel should've hired Antos to play Thanos instead of Josh Brolin.
Antos seems to fail upwards.
Great Video!
Failing upwards, and we better like it or else!
The longer Heather stays in the industry, the more weight she puts on apparently
Only good stuff from IDW these days is TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures and Godzilla
Dead Comics Walking= IDW
It sounds like Heather's got some good blackmail material in her pocket.
Heather Anton the destroyers of IPs and publishers. Had to hold my nose and then read through the Dark Horse release of “Planetes” by Yukimura Makoto, with the rationalization that Heather’s only bad touch of the manga was to say that Heather liked this manga. Planetes is a very good manga series, but I wonder how many sales were cancelled or stopped because of seeing the quotation on the inside from “She Who Plagues.” Not to be confused with any Slaaneshi references.
She who plagues - sounds like Nurgle's side chick
Looking forward to it
Maybe it's not so much Heather Antos as it is that if you're dumb enough to hire and promote Heather Antos, there's no way all your other business decisions aren't really stupid as well. The same way looking down the barrel of a gun to see if it's loaded isn't bad luck per se, but it does portend things to come.
The bosses must have a particular type...
Their sonic stuff is the only good thing about this company at this point
Isn't it over or something?😶 fynn really write good stuff on sonic
Even that has been hit or miss compared to when Flynn was writing the series.
Yea, Sega's hard mandate on what is allowed for their characters keeps the writers in check
@@Gammaworlds he's not that bad , is he?🤨
@Gammaworlds Flynn is hit or miss as well. Fans are still torn if they even like the Metal Virus arc.
If they loose tmnt = they're phooked!
What happened with Cameron Stewart? I like his art. Was there some falling out or something?
What happened to the so called substack talent? Or zoop?
To be fair to Heather, IDW was already in ruins and in-debt before she came along. I do wonder how much longer IDW will be around. They lasted longer than I thought.
She keeps eating all the comic's
Imagine being in charge Star Trek and thinking it's a good idea to have liana kangas on covers
Monster High didn't sell because it was a sequel to a Novel every fan hated, you'd be confused to read the comic because it wasn't a one and done series of comics, the art wasn't even that good🤷♀️
BTW I'd read an LGBT comic, I'm a huge fan of Shatterstar and some gay characters on soap show are really interesting, but I'm not going to care if the story doesn't make sense or is just badly written🤦♀️
Isn't she Gwenpool? Kinda ironic
@10:13 these guys are so funny 😭😭😭😭
Funny I got this vid while reading Infestation
DC comics will never end up like IDW.
Oh, it's about the money. It's inevitable some bean counter will start saying something
"I am become death, the destroyer of comics and buffets." - Heather Antos
TMNT to skybound would be great
Hey....my wife is into Monster High. She is not a wine drinking cat lady.
The joke was that's who IDW writes Monster High comics for, instead of the majority of the fans.
Old Monster High was kinda cool, G1 was edgy if I'm remembering correctly. G2 was ok and it kinda went down hill with the reboot. G4 of MLP was good and G5 also wasn't very good.
I think most Bronies grew up and discovered boys.
does she really use that satanic shirt, or its photoshopped?
Yes it’s legit. She is a hater of Christianity
I actually liked what they had with the two main Star Trek series… and most people agree.. I think your friend isn’t reading anything..
Dan Sloth can barely finish a marvel comic much less an original independent project. He’s content with just creating useless Spider-Spec characters.
Wes just kinda tells it like it is 😂 If something is bad he'll say it he tells the truth if it's good he also will give praise as well. That's what I respect about this channel it encourages objective thinking. If you are overly sensitive, you just shouldn't watch this channel 😂📺. I made a post on league of Comics about Wes and everyone almost immediately wanted to ban me 😂🤦🏾♂️
The original run of IDW TMNT did get infected a slight bit. Still the rogen's TMNT movie is still a great benchmark 2 see whom r true TMMNT fans and whom r the fake fans (and the actual bigots), like with Batman: Caped Crusader cartoon is for Batman
Well the 1st run of IDWTransformers had some weird parts around Arcee, but that was because the writer tried putting things in comics that clearly didn't know much aboot. So nothing 2 do same disease that have infected Marvel and DC.
powerpuff girls #2 is better than powerpuff girls #1 because more text to read!
I hope they close completely 😂 but in today's world you fall upwards so im sure she will land another publishing job...probably Marvel or DC
This is Fox News of comics TH-cam
then get back to sniffing kamel toes crotch and gtfo.
Fox News is late to the intensional burning down of the Comic Industry. Wes and others have been covering this problem, For some time now. So you can get back to you NPR Cat Ladies reviewing Indie Books. Created by your favorite Writers. Cucks Weirdos and Fat Women!
Aaron sucks. How does he have any credibility talking about sales numbers when no one buys his sorry books?
how does she do it ? LOL
Maybe this tubbo should have 50 more milkshakes, I'm sure that will fix things!
A woman destroys another company. SSDD
All this woke crap i know a good comic that is not woke at all Unicorn Knights of Monokeros it is waaay better than what IDW puts out.