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title: TKO Studios Trying to Break the Mold of Publishing Comics
date: 2018-12-14 13:48:00 -06:00
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- comics
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TKO Studios, a publisher I'd never heard of until recently [on The Outhouse](http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/141655-tko-studios-is-trying-to-be-a-modern-comic-book-company.html) is trying something different in the comics publishing industry. [From their Twitter account](https://twitter.com/TKOpresents/status/1072261846688653312):

> We know fans don’t want to wait months to read a full story. So we BINGE-RELEASE our books. We make all issues of a single miniseries available at once.

Netflix popularized this idea of binging content, and now that's coming to comics. I love sitting down to read a whole story arc at once. But just because they're releasing a complete story all at once doesn't mean you have less choices in format. [In that same Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/TKOpresents/status/1072261853290487808), TKO explains that all of their books will come out in three different formats.

<figure class="reg">
  {% include imgic.html src="/2018/12/tko-six-issue.jpg" alt="TKO Studio six issue set" %}
  <figcaption><span class="image__copyright">&copy; <span class="caps">TKO</span> Studios</span></figcaption>
</figure>

For those of us who love to collect single issues, TKO will release a six-issue set complete with an awesome looking collectors box. If you're a fan of trade paperbacks (which I also happen to love), TKO is making those too. And to cover all their bases, there are digital options too. [Which they're saying](https://twitter.com/TKOpresents/status/1072261865093312513) will be available on mobile, tablet, and desktop.

<figure class="reg">
  {% include imgic.html src="/2018/12/tko-tradepaperback.jpg" alt="TKO Studios trade paperback" %}
  <figcaption><span class="image__copyright">&copy; <span class="caps">TKO</span> Studios</span></figcaption>
</figure>

From the images, it looks like they've paid attention to the details. They've got several books for sale already [on the site](https://tkopresents.com/), others are available for pre-order. You can access the site with the password `vipaccess`. I'm excited to see if this experiment works.