This is about Joey Drew Studios, not about my comic. I want to state up-front that these developments will have no effect on the story I'm telling, which by now is completely independent of BATIM anyway.
So...Joey Drew Studios, the publisher of Bendy and the Ink Machine, has been sued by Phatmojo, the company that made a large amount of merchandise based on BATIM, Showdown Bandit, and Bendy and the Dark Revival. Remember those action figures and plushies that came out in 2019, then sat around gathering dust on store shelves because the games they represented didn't materialize? At the time I thought that was a horrible misstep for Mood and Meatly, Bendy's creators. Merchandise generates a LOT of revenue, and without that revenue the company is in trouble. And, yep, the company soon fired most of its staff and canceled Showdown Bandit after the first chapter, and postponed BATDR. They did release Boris and the Dark Survival, which I understand basically recycled code from
