AfterShock Comics, as you may recall, was founded back in 2015. I noted at the time that they seemed a little better poised for success than many start-up comic publishers because, beyond just having a creative vision, they were starting with a strong financing team. Not having those people at the start has killed more than a few otherwise promising nacent publishers over the years.
However, in 2022, AfterShock filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Bankruptcy sounds rather terminal, but that doesn't necessarily mean the end of the company. Marvel Comics filed for bankruptcy in 1996, for example, and they seem to be doing pretty okay these days. In fact, at Comic-Con in 2023, AfterShock had some repesentatives talk at the Diamond Comics Retailer Lunch and spoke to the progress they had made and were continuing to make. It was, from what I heard, not exactly a bountifully joyful celebration or anything, but it still seemed to express forward-thinking optimism.
Today, AfterShock is continuing to publish comics. The first issues of A Walk Through Hell and Bad Reception have debuted in the past month, while Fear of a Red Planet, Maniac of New York, Chicken Devils, and others are ongoing. But I can't seem to find any news about their financial situation. Their official website doesn't seem to have been updated since late 2022, and their Facebook page has been static since September of last year. (I closed my Twitter account some time back, so I don't know if they're still posting anything on X.) All of which only really talked about their publications anyway, with no real info beyond that.
So I'm curious. Where do things stand with AfterShock as a company right now? The past couple months' worth of dockets filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California are mostly around rescheduling or continuing hearings, which as far as I can decipher, just mean that the official bankruptcy proceedings are still just chugging along. There's also some monthly operating reports, but I can't see the contents of those, and I believe those are just standard operating procedures for any company in bankruptcy.
Does anyone have access to more details around those documents to shed light on how things are going?
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