A suicide note by a deceased criminal was found inside a GN

Comic Book Club says a suicide note written by the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly discovered inside a graphic novel, and the news provided even includes a connection to IDW, of all companies:

They say all press is good press, but I’ll be honest: I don’t know if that applies here, because Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide note was found inside a graphic novel.

The news comes via the New York Times, which right under the headline “Purported Epstein Suicide Note Is Released” is the subheadline, “A federal judge released the note on Wednesday, which Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate said he found in a graphic novel. The New York Times has not authenticated that Mr. Epstein wrote it.”

Now, there are a lot of important questions about this. Is the note real? Did Epstein write it? And what does it mean, if the pedophile and abuser did, indeed, die by suicide versus the multiple conspiracy theories about how he went out. But if you’re like me, aka, brain totally broken, the main question is… Which graphic novel? That’s certainly a question, and online at least there were plenty of jokes. But can we figure out which graphic novel Epstein was reading before his death? Sorry, alleged graphic novel. [...]

The second, and slightly more eye-opening set of documents are financial reports from ADW Capital Partners from February 17, 2016. Why is this interesting? That’s because the documents are about ADW’s investment in… IDW. And they call out mostly media properties like Wynonna Earp, but specifically also mention, “One of the Company’s most famous properties, ‘Locke and Key,’ is co-owned with Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son).”

Look, someone more financially minded than me should explain this, but as far as I can gather, ADW, which it’s likely Epstein was an investor in (given he was receiving emails from the fund) was heavily invested in IDW. And so much so that on March 5, 2019, ADW urged a sale of IDW in a publicly released press release. Later than month, IDW hired JP Morgan to explore a sale, and then less than five months later, on August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, who we’ve now established was conclusively a huge fan of Locke & Key, committed suicide. Coincidence??? Yes.

Be that as it may, one could wonder if IDW arranged to be sold away from any business Epstein had an ownership stake in because they realized the embarrassment that could entail, after all the woke pandering they went miles out of their way to work on. Or, did they turn to woke pandering because they thought it would serve as a shield from any severe critical drubbing they could receive over an unfortunate if coincidental connection to such a monster? Well even that kind of notion is starting to fall apart, as seen in the near decade since the Harvey Weinstein scandal, so perhaps IDW might want to stop taking a woke position with their comics writing now for a change, since, if they had any kind of meetings with Epstein like Simpsons creator Matt Groening did, it wouldn't help their reputation at this point.

Whatever the case, there's a number of decent products IDW used to publish comics for that I'd rather they never get a license or permit to publish ever again. They've insulted my intellect so badly over the past several years, and have hired at least a few very bad apples of recent, that, unless they took time to overhaul their management properly, it would be ill-advised to buy their post-2020 products again.