Dark Horse to close retail stores, sharpen IP focus

This week’s epic upheaval in the comics space continues. 

In the wake of yesterday’s restructuring for Dark Horse parent company Fellowship Entertainment, Dark Horse Media has issued a statement announcing the closure of their three Things From Another World stores, and new focuses for Dark Horse Media and Games. 

Things from Another World is an extension of Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson’s time as a retailer, and announced they would be closing down their mail order business last year. The two Oregon locations will be closing at the end of June, while the California location – a prominent space on Universal’s Citywalk – will close down at the end of September. 

Meanwhile, both Dark Horse Entertainment (the media development department) and Dark Horse Games announced a renewed focus on creators and for the former and IP development for the latter, plan intended to reflect Dark Horse Comics’ “continuing efforts to modernize, strengthen collaboration within the company, and build a more-connected organization across Fellowship Entertainment.”

Announcing the new focuses for DH Entertainment and Games were fairly vague statement that expressed good ideas but who is charge of implementing them isn’t quite clear. Since Richardson was removed form the company back at the start of March, Jay Komas, head of The Middle Earth Group has been running the company as  interim CEO. According to those we asked, a new head of marketing and sales has not yet been hired, so Dark Horse’s c-suite has a lot of question marks at the moment. 

The complete statement from Dark Horse: 

Things From Another World 
We will be closing all three of the Things From Another World retail locations, effective June 30, 2026, for the Oregon locations and September 30, 2026, for the California location. This was not an easy decision, and we do not take lightly the impact it has on the people directly affected.

To the employees whose jobs will be affected by this closure, we are deeply grateful for your dedication, your hard work, and the care you brought to your roles every day. We are committed to supporting the affected employees through this transition. We are working to ensure that this process is handled with the care and respect it warrants.

Dark Horse Entertainment
Dark Horse Entertainment is sharpening its focus on what has always been at the heart of this company — its creators. Going forward, we are deepening our commitment to our writers, artists, and storytellers who define the Dark Horse voice, ensuring they have the development support, creative partnerships, and resources to bring their visions to life across film and television. We believe the strongest path forward for Dark Horse Entertainment runs directly through the creative talent that makes this company extraordinary.

Dark Horse Games
Dark Horse Games is a new initiative dedicated to bringing the company’s rich creative universes to interactive entertainment. Just as Dark Horse Entertainment exists to champion our storytellers in film and television, Dark Horse Games will provide creators with the development opportunities and creative partnerships needed to realize their worlds within interactive entertainment. The same spirit that has defined Dark Horse Comics for four decades — independent, creator-driven, uncompromising — now has a home in Fellowship Entertainment.

We believe these changes further focus Dark Horse on its successful core publishing and collectibles business and on deepening our relationship with our fans and the retail community alike. Importantly, we also believe our world-class creators will directly benefit from dedicated resources across our group companies and a renewed focus on opportunities for them across linear and interactive media.