Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. (fka REDG)

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Toys-R-US wouldn't say print is on its way out: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=48668

Yes, Toys-R-Us is also at Comic Con: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/toysrus-heads-to-comiccon-international-in-san-diego-at-entertainment-earth-booth-2343-with-nine-noteworthy-exclusives/27764/

Furthermore, print is only one aspect of the business and will be used as a medium for advertisers to market their name brand, bring in revenues and distribute REDG IP to the masses:

It is our goal for Red Giant Entertainment to become an industry leader and innovater for each sector of our business. Our core business is dedicated to developing quality intellectual properties. As a transmedia company, our primary mission is development of these intellectual properties into various ancillary media forms including: movies, television, video games, phone apps, online comics, toy lines, cartoons, T-shirts, and innumerable other merchandising opportunities.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/can-digital-print-peacefully-coexist-world-comic-books/

The general perspective of the panel was that print and digital could not only co-exist, but may reinforce each other.

Foremost among these is that revenues from print comic books have been increasing for several years. While still below the levels of the comics boom of the early 1990s, the market’s trajectory in recent years has been markedly positive. The Comic Book Chronicles web site, Comichron.com, estimates that the size of the North American market for comic books and graphic novels has climbed from around $300 million – $330 million in 2002 to roughly $700 million – $730 million a decade later. Comichron’s John Jackson Miller notes that the recent growth has in the retail comics shops, offsetting losses in the mass market.

http://comicbook.com/blog/2009/03/10/why-digital-comic-books-will-never-kill-print-comic-books/

The digital medium will not only not kill print comic books, it could very well help to drive print comic books to new heights.

http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/comic-book-shop-advocate-pushes-for-windowing-of-digital-comics/

http://www.diamondcomics.com/Home/1/1/3/597?articleID=142620

“This is a watershed moment for Red Giant,” stated Benny Powell, CEO, Red Giant Entertainment. “We have proven our Intellectual Property online and in the digital comic marketplace. Now, we are pleased to work with this cornerstone institution to help grow and support the comic book retail industry as well as our offline audience.”

Bottom line, "free" comics with major sponsors/paid advertisers to get all brand names out to the public is the goal. This is not about "selling comics" in brick & mortar stores (although certain Toys-R-Us stores do carry print comics too). Digital may be superior to print - but they can go hand-in-hand in certain aspects - and they have both. One will grow the other.

GLTY!!

$REDG