As we entered into 2025, Diamond Comic Distributors went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company supposedly planned to restructure and survive. It quickly became apparent that things were bad, however, and all the various entities that were a part of Diamond were to go to auction. One compay has swooped in to claim much of Diamond, interestingly enough. That operation is Alliance Entertainment.
Alliance Entertainment does a lot with music, movies, video-games, purchased a toy company called, "Handmade by Robots," and does a lot with, "Entertainment," as its name would suggest...except for comics. It seems AEnt is happy to work in the field of comics but the main aspect of Diamond's infastructure/remants that appealed appears to be that Direct Market for toys, games, and so forth. As Heidi MacDonald of Comicsbeat discusses in this article, we don't know much for sure as this is the early days and a court has to approve the sale, but there is some cautious optimism as well as folks not knowing what to make of AEnt. There will be a lot of questions these next few weeks, but at least we now know who will be the company where the answers all come from.
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