I’ve held off naming the successful licensee of the Hasbro IP license in the title, in the event that someone is genuinely waiting for the formal announcement from Hasbro social media, or the press release.

And the winner is …… drumroll…..

Image Comics, under their Skybound Imprint. Makes sense with their distribution (it wasn’t going to be with a niche publisher again), but my money would have been on Marvel since Hasbro already works hand in hand with Disney for Star Wars.

https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/06/09/...evealed-486657

It was originally broken by Ain’t it Cool news, which sometimes has interesting comic industry scoops.

We’re still await the formal announcement, but the new IP’s look will be released in one of Skybound’s new titles called ‘Void Virals’ which for some strange reason, comic stores ordered over 100k copies of. Yes its Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman, and issue one of walking dead sells for gazillions, but still it’s a huge overorder and was apparently one of the industry’s best kept secrets about the reveal in that issue.