Dark Horse Comics to close all Things From Another World storefronts

After astir 50 years of selling each things comics, Dark Horse is closing its Things From Another World retail locations.

The publishing house, good known for bid similar “Hellboy” and “The Umbrella Academy,” operated 2 storefronts successful Oregon and maintained a flagship store astatine L.A.’s Universal Citywalk. The Oregon shops volition adjacent successful June, and the L.A. determination volition adjacent successful September. The institution said successful a connection that these closures are a portion of its efforts to “modernize.”

“This was not an casual decision, and we bash not instrumentality lightly the interaction it has connected the radical straight affected,” Dark Horse said successful a statement.

As the institution moves distant from the retail business, the Oregon-based steadfast said it plans to absorption much connected its creators and writers, “ensuring they person the improvement support, originative partnerships, and resources to bring their visions to beingness crossed movie and television.” Over the years, Dark Horse has go 1 of the largest comics publishers successful the country.

The institution besides precocious launched a games part focused connected providing creators with improvement opportunities successful interactive entertainment.

Dark Horse added, “We judge these changes further absorption Dark Horse connected its palmy halfway publishing and collectibles concern and connected deepening our narration with our fans and the retail assemblage alike.”

The structural changes came a week aft Dark Horse Media, which oversees Dark Horse Comics, was rolled into a caller genitor company, Fellowship Entertainment. The Stockholm-listed amusement concern was formed done a institution divided astatine Embracer Group. Under this separation, Fellowship Entertainment is present location to companies similar Dark Horse Media and Crystal Dynamics, arsenic good arsenic IPs similar “The Lord of the Rings” and “Tomb Raider.”

Dark Horse was founded successful 1986 by Mike Richardson. He had initially opened Pegasus Books successful Bend, Ore., successful 1980, with plans to go an author. But arsenic the retail concern expanded, helium alternatively decided to get into the publishing manufacture with Dark Horse. In the archetypal fewer years of the company, helium popularized comic bid based connected movies similar “Star Wars,” “Aliens” and “Predator.” Today, the institution represents implicit 350 properties crossed comics, books, films, television, physics games, toys and collectibles.

The closing of Things From Another World astatine Universal Citywalk marks the nonaccomplishment of different bequest comic store successful the city. In caller years, galore storied shops similar Geoffrey’s Comics successful Torrance, Earth-2 Comics successful Sherman Oaks and Hi De-Ho Comics successful Santa Monica person each been forced to adjacent owed successful portion to a struggling retail market.