BAD IDEA Seeks to Disrupt Comics Industry, Announces Launch Series in ENIAC

A new experimental publisher is en route in Bad Idea, whose mantra reads, ‘Don’t Do Anything Unless It’s Special’. The new company launches in May and already has a laundry list of top talent lined up for a big year.

The publisher plans on disrupting the industry in churning out no variants, no collected editions and no digital offerings either. If you want these comics, you will have to go to your local comic shop! Bad Idea plans on intentionally limiting the number of series, roughly 1-2 per month. In fact, new releases will only be available in 20-participating retailers, as it will forego using Diamond Distributors, with plans on expanding to 50 shops within the year. A complete list of participating shops can be found, HERE.

Spearheading the company are Dinesh Shamdasani, the Co-CEO/CCO, along with Warren Simons. Publisher duties fall to Hunter Gorinson, while Joshua Johns will be serving as the Director of Marketing. The group reunites having successfully resurrecting Valiant Entertainment into what it is today, an independent publishing and award-winning industry force.

In ENIAC, the series is named after the actual computer, completed in 1945, for the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. The series serves as an alternate reimagining of actual events, wherein the computer, itself, is behind an extensive plan to drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. The plan seems to lean toward the launching of every single nuclear weapon in the world, over the course of a few days, while two covert operatives have been tasked with shutting down the system, before it’s too late.

The first-ever series under the Bad Idea umbrella comes courtesy of the creative duo of Matt Kindt and Doug Braithwaite.

The second series from the publisher is called, Megalith. No further information has been provided, but covers for both series, via artist Lewis LaRosa, can be seen below.

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ENIAC #1 will serve as Bad Idea‘s first good idea and goes on sale on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.

Click HERE for the official press release from PR Newswire (PRN).

Click HERE and HERE for additional source articles, both courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter (THR).