Jeff Lemire’s Bone Orchard Is Done, DC Celebrates 100 Years Of Comics Early, Publishers Take On Diamond | Comic Book Club News For July 14, 2025

Jeff Lemire’s Bone Orchard is done. DC is celebrating 100 years of comics, 10 years early. Publishers take on Diamond.

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Jeff Lemire done with Bone Orchard.

DC celebrates 100 years of comics.

Publishers team up to take on Diamond.

This is Comic Book Club News for July 14, 2025.

Jeff Lemire Is Done With Bone Orchard:

Jeff Lemire won’t be growing bones in the Bone Orchard anymore. The series of interconnected anthologies titled The Bone Orchard Mythos, created by Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, will not continue.

Here’s what Lemire had to say, via his newsletter: “Unfortunately The Bone Orchard will not be continuing. There are multiple reasons for this. The sales were not what we hoped for, and there are other, more personal reasons, theses books won’t continue. In hindsight, Andrea and I should have done the stories as one monthly comic, like Gideon Falls. I think the anthology feel and format made it difficult for retailers to sell.”

Launched with a Prelude on Free Comic Book Day in 2022, the Image Comics series ran through an original graphic novel called The Passageway, a five-issue mini called Ten Thousand Black Feathers, and a 10-issue miniseries titled Tenement. A fourth story, Starseed, was planned, but given the above will likely never be released.

DC Celebrating 100 Years Of Comics, Over The Next Decade:

DC is kicking off San Diego Comic-Con with a celebration of 100 years of comics. No, they’re not 100 years old; they’re just getting started, 10 years early.

Per the publisher, “In 2025, DC enters the final decade of its first 100 years. With reverence for the past and an embrace of the future, DC plans to celebrate every era of its storied history annually in 10-year increments, starting at the beginning: 1935-1945. The 2025 DC Booth will feature art and experiences from this first decade of publication. This nascent age was a time of unprecedented creation and saw the birth of not only DC, but of the comic book art form with DC’s New Fun #1, Super Heroes, and the DC Trinity: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.”

At San Diego Comic-Con, this celebration includes a Daily Planet newsstand with a guide to the publisher’s con plans, as well as teases of upcoming comics. As for whether this wildly ambitious promotion plan will, indeed, last all decade? Stay tuned.

Publishers Team Up To Take On Diamond:

If you’ve been paying any attention to the increasingly complicated goings-on around the bankruptcy of Diamond Comic Distributors, you know that the fallout has been constant and harrowing. The latest wrinkle is that Diamond is reportedly selling the inventory they have to pay off debts to Chase Bank — not to the publishers whose inventory they are selling. That’s led to situations like Dynamite Entertainment being owed over $1 million, and telling the court they won’t be able to make payroll for their employees if Diamond doesn’t pay.

Now, per an email from Dynamite sent to Comic Book Club, a few publishers are banding together — and they’re looking to add more — to take on this latest move from Diamond.

Along with the subject line, “Diamond Comics Distributors Inventory Motion Without Publishers Consent,” Dynamite CEO and Publisher Nick Barrucci included the following message:

“Notice to all publishers and vendors who distributed products through Diamond. Diamond or its successor entities have publicly moved to sell inventory currently in its warehouses without publishers’ consent. Several publishers are pooling their resources together to challenge these proposed sales procedures for this inventory. If you represent a company with inventory currently warehoused with Diamond or its successor entities and would like to learn more, please reach out to the following publishers who are helping to put together our group of vendors:”

Those publishers include Eric Reynolds at Fantagraphics, Peggy Burns at Drawn & Quarterly, and Barrucci. Also of note, there’s a tight timeline here, as Dynamite is currently having the matter heard in the Maryland Bankruptcy Court on July 16. So anyone who wants in, needs to let them know ASAP.

While Diamond is slowly shutting down parts of the company, and has already sold most of its assets to Universal Entertainment and Ad Populum, it still owes a ton of money to a lot of different companies. Some of the larger companies seem content — at least publicly — to absorb that cost and move on for the moment. But for smaller companies like the three mentioned above, a loss of this level of income and inventory could be apocalyptic.

We’ll have more on this as it develops.

For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And we’re actually celebrating 100 years of Comic Book Club News, 100 years early.

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