Kandora Publishing

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:33 pm

I didn't see an issue list for this company so I figured I'd throw one together since it's quite short.

Barbarossa & The Lost Corsairs #1-2
Barbarossa 1A for the PSP
Barbarossa 1B for the PSP

Jade Fire #1

Earl · Post by **Earl** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:59 pm

Odd how almost no one took to this publisher.

Earl.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:37 pm

Not really the fault of the fans though. The books had decent numbers given it was a new publisher. The three books published were in the 2300-3500 range. The publisher's to blame here, since apparently they didn't have enough capital to take an initial loss and that's just poor business planning.

The two unreleased properties, Monarch of Manhatten and Savage World, are due to be published under a new studio and by a different publisher.

Earl · Post by **Earl** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:29 am

Yep, I think there was talk that Savage World was going to be published by Speakeasy. News on that seems to have died off though.

Earl.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:08 pm

I think that's still the plan. Towards the end of October Chuck Sellner said he was starting up a new studio (Visionary, I think?) and the books would be put out bya publisher. Shortly after that Kandora's site was shut down, so there's been no more info.

I think Barbarossa and Jade Fire were supposed to be finished at Speakeasy as well, but I don't think that's happening anymore.

Earl · Post by **Earl** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:19 pm

Like Alias, Speakeasy don't seem to be putting out much of anything at the moment.

Managed to finsh my Kandora colection. Not that it was very hard to complete

Good stuff!

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:35 am

At the moment, I only have Barbarossa #1. I smelled something fishy from them early on so knew not to buy their second month's issues, but I know my lcs has the two other Kandora books, so I could complete my collection at any point. I don't see those books going anywhere any time soon.

Earl · Post by **Earl** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:00 pm

Here are the ICV2 estimates for Kandora sales...

BARBAROSSA & THE LOST CORSAIRS #1 3,055
BARBAROSSA & THE LOST CORSAIRS #2 2,013
JADE FIRE #1 3,252

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:53 pm

Yeah, and, really, those aren't bad numbers for that type of company. They just didn't have a realistic view of today's market. They were expecting (needing, actually) "CrossGen numbers" from the start and that's just ridiculous and if in any business you can't survive a few months (heck even a year or so) without suffering a loss, you shouldn't be going into business in the first place.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:47 pm

Early after Kandora's closing, it was said at least some of the books would be moving to Speakeasy, I wonder what the future holds for those titles now that Speakeasy is gone.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:14 pm

There is hope for the former Kandora Publishing titles in Visionary Comics Studio started by former Kandora writers Brian Augustyn and C. Edward Sellner. There are already plans to launch Savage World. With the other 3 not far behind.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:17 pm

A quick rummage through the 3 for $1 bin and I was able to complete my run of Kandora books!

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:57 pm

Earl wrote:Odd how almost no one took to this publisher.

Earl.