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A lot of changes suddenly at comics companies all over. I’ve just learned that Chris Ryall, formerly Chief Creative officer and Editor-in-Chief at IDW, has stepped down.
The move is entirely of his own volition, I’m told.
Ryall joined IDW in June of 2004, and oversaw its steady growth in both licensed comics and originals, as well as writing titles including Zombies vs Robots, Groom Lake, The Hollows, The Colonized, and Onyx, and licensed titles including Transformers.
Ryall wrote a farewell email to staff which included the following:
Through it all—through the deadline craziness, market fluctuations, assorted business challenges, social-media storms, new faces, new projects, and new challenges—it’s all served as a constant reminder how lucky I’ve been to contribute to this industry that I love so much. And I plan to keep making contributions outside these walls. But for now, I’m stepping aside to take a break, get off the never-ending-deadline train and see what new challenge makes the most sense as my next move. It might seem short at times, but 14 years is a long time to do anything — I’ve certainly never done anything else in my life for this amount of time.
There’s not enough time or space to catalog the various successes that have happened here in that time and really, there’s no need — they’ve all been parts of a whole that has made this place such a thrill to work at for as long as I have. The successes and fun vastly outweighed the stresses, which is really a testament to the place that Ted and Robbie and company built in the first place. I’m appreciative as can be for all the opportunities IDW has afforded me. It’s just time to figure out my next move, that’s all.
I remain excited about comics, about creating, and about giving people good reasons to keep reading and, separately, about seeing everything IDW is going to do next. I first noticed IDW’s books in its earliest days, impressed by the care and uniqueness that those early titles offered, so it’s been a thrill to join all of you to build things out in an even bigger way. And I look forward to once again being able to experience IDW’s output with a fresh eye.
While his next move isn’t yet known, as shown by the above, Ryall seems to want to stay in the comics biz. As shown by his words, Ryall is known as a classy, even tempered executive, and I don’t doubt that he’ll have many opportunities in front of him.
This is the latest of a strong of changes at IDW. Recently co-founder Ted Adams moved from publisher to CEO, while Greg Goldstein moved into the Publisher position. PR manager Steven Scott also recently left the company.
Developing.
Transcendent30 wrote:I just wish ALL of IDW's circle jerking SJW idiots would step down with him. These creeps have done nothing but ruin much loved 80's franchises with their feminist political nonsense, doing exactly what Marvel has done to their books. Goodbye and good riddence.
Transcendent30 wrote:Nope, I'm "ranting" about how IDW ruined 1) Transformers 2) Gi-Joe 3) M.A.S.K. and 4) Visionaries, with SJW bullshit. They probably ruined other things as well, but I haven't got the sick buckets to investigate. I hope IDW dies a miserable death, along with their comrades at Marvel.
Transcendent30 wrote:Nope, I'm "ranting" about how IDW ruined 1) Transformers 2) Gi-Joe 3) M.A.S.K. and 4) Visionaries, with SJW bullshit. They probably ruined other things as well, but I haven't got the sick buckets to investigate. I hope IDW dies a miserable death, along with their comrades at Marvel.
ScottyP wrote:Mr. Ryall is someone that, as a Transformer fan, I owe a great deal of gratitude. He was instrumental in forging IDW's path with the property. I hope for nothing but the best for Chris in the future!
Irresponsible sentence follows: who wants to place bets he's going to Marvel to work on...
Rom
Transcendent30 wrote:Nope, I'm "ranting" about how IDW ruined 1) Transformers 2) Gi-Joe 3) M.A.S.K. and 4) Visionaries, with SJW bullshit. They probably ruined other things as well, but I haven't got the sick buckets to investigate. I hope IDW dies a miserable death, along with their comrades at Marvel.
ScottyP wrote:Mr. Ryall is someone that, as a Transformer fan, I owe a great deal of gratitude. He was instrumental in forging IDW's path with the property. I hope for nothing but the best for Chris in the future!
Irresponsible sentence follows: who wants to place bets he's going to Marvel to work on...
Rom
snavej wrote:What's a 'strong of changes' (last paragraph)?![]()
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Randomhero wrote:Transcendent30 wrote:Nope, I'm "ranting" about how IDW ruined 1) Transformers 2) Gi-Joe 3) M.A.S.K. and 4) Visionaries, with SJW bullshit. They probably ruined other things as well, but I haven't got the sick buckets to investigate. I hope IDW dies a miserable death, along with their comrades at Marvel.
I am in complete agreement with this. I don’t think social issues that are happening in our world should always reflect what happens in comics. To give it a sense of realism, sure... but IDW has really turned me off of Transformers; at least from a strictly comic book sense.
Yeah they actually do other books and do pretty well for themselves. Sorry you let new stuff rape your childhood and all. Maybe time to move on
Aru wrote:I really despise people like you. With your man baby principles who feel any bit of inclusion of people unlike yourself means that your "precious" childhood is being taken away from you. Grow up. I'm sorry did your parents never teach you to share or are you just afraid of running into people in your comic shop that don't have the same skin color or equipment between there legs. I'm sure you will figure out how to talk to a girl at some point junior. Get over yourself.
And in Transformers? we actually now have Trans-formers, who can shift sexes from male to female. What does any of this add to the story? Nothing, its just far left political hand wringing by annoying little children who never saw a day of the 80s. I agree with Simon Furman, the idea of sexless robots having genders is BULLSHIT, as is IDW and all their millennial kiddy fans.
OK, they were obviously "male" robots, but they were robots! Which are kind of genderless. I applaud what's been done of late, and done well, including in Earth Wars, which features several female Transformers like Windblade, Rust Dust, Stormclash, Skyburst, Slipstream, and more still to come.
Va'al wrote:Simon Furman, the writer of Spotlight: Arcee?
This Simon Furman?OK, they were obviously "male" robots, but they were robots! Which are kind of genderless. I applaud what's been done of late, and done well, including in Earth Wars, which features several female Transformers like Windblade, Rust Dust, Stormclash, Skyburst, Slipstream, and more still to come.
Cool.
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As for Ryall stepping down - aka the topic of this thread - it'll be an interesting move, especially as he very recently made it back to EIC, only to now leave entirely.
Hasbro has Rom, but if the rumors are true and a Paramount Rom movie is possibly not happening, what would they have left to lose by selling the IP to Disney/Marvel? They've still got the toy license.ZeroWolf wrote:ScottyP wrote:Mr. Ryall is someone that, as a Transformer fan, I owe a great deal of gratitude. He was instrumental in forging IDW's path with the property. I hope for nothing but the best for Chris in the future!
Irresponsible sentence follows: who wants to place bets he's going to Marvel to work on...
Rom
Wait I thought Rom was IDW now? Or is it part of the weird thing where marvel had all his old back story...am I looking into this too much? My first thought was had he been snapped up by DC since they recently decided to expand their non-continuity output including frank miller (!) Working on a new superman origin tale (!!!!!)
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