Chad Burdette
Forge of Monsters by Monster Forge
Get ready to meet the monsters who fight back.
Get ready to meet the monsters who fight back.
Monster Forge is proud to announce a terrifying new lineup of horror-fueled comic book releases, headlined by the highly anticipated anthology Forge of Monsters. This bold new series introduces an original cast of monstrous heroes, set to carve out their legend in the ever-expanding Monster Forge Universe — where the raw, twisted energy of old-school horror comics is reborn.
And it’s paired with two additional titles: Hunters — a gritty prequel set during the building of the U.S. railroad, and Atlantean — a standalone graphic novella plunging readers into a mythic underground nightmare.
This is your only chance to grab these first-edition releases, packed with extras and made for fans of cosmic horror, pulp action, and monsters with meaning.
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Previously featured and unfunded:
- Time Dog and the Dark Future – 11 Days
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look and Support:
- Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera Starring Lon Chaney – 3 Days Left
- MURDER DRONES: THE OFFICIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL – 3 Days Left
- The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope – The Manga by Hisao Tamaki – 5 Days Left
- Those That Inherit the Earth Volume 1 – 7 Days Left
- White Ash Vol 1 — The Master Edition Hardcover – 10 Days Left
- Let’s Play Volume 6 – 12 Days Left
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Model UN Pt 1 — Aliens + High School + 90s + Manga + 54 pgs
Link: Model UN Pt 1 — Aliens + High School + 90s + Manga + 54 pgs
It’s 1996, and high schooler Velma just wants to graduate from her stuffy private school and figure out the rest of her life. But first, there’s one final meeting of the Rook College’s Model United Nations club to get through—with the fate of the planet Earth in her hands!
Wait, what? That’s right: a massive mothership has stationed itself over campus and made “first contact” with Velma’s Model UN, mistaking her and her misfit friends and frenemies for the actual United Nations. Suddenly thrust into the role of chief negotiator, and dealing with a self-obsessed alien leader unwilling to admit that it maybe, possibly, probably made a mistake reaching out to her and her buds, Velma has to juggle final exams, her crush, and the massive weight of billions of lives, all in the space of one crazy weekend
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Footpath: Dangerous Nights
32 pages of heart-pounding, rapid-fire action for fans of G.I. Joe, Birds Of Prey, and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
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EVERMIND #1-6 Complete Collection by Daniel Wu and Sean Chen
Finale of the Action Sci-Fi Epic! Mecha gorillas, android fembots, paramilitary corporations and the battle to save mankind!
If you’re a fan of Jurassic Park, Westworld, or Robocop, get ready for the epic cyberpunk action thriller EVERMIND!
An ambitious scientist and his activist daughter battle ruthless paramilitary corporations… while trapped in the bodies of a theme park mecha gorilla and a pleasure bot.
247 Comics, the publisher who brought you Zero Ghost, Bladesmyth and Heroes Be Damned, began two years ago with the launch of Evermind Issues #1-3, and now we’re back with the thrilling finale!
This campaign is raising funds for Evermind #4-6, three issues totaling 100+ pages.
Rigsby WI – Volume 2: Burn It Down, by SE Case
The second volume of SE Case’s Eisner-nominated webcomic about the brutal disaster of being a teen in the early 2000s
It’s sophomore year, and for Anna Jensen, high school has been a complete disappointment. Her school lunch card doesn’t work. Her friends won’t stop talking about boys. The house she’s been staying at is always full of creeps. And, to top it all off, her English teacher’s partnered her up with Frank, the high school’s biggest flunky hold-back!
Anna’s dogged determination to succeed doesn’t mean a thing in the face of Frank’s complete lack of motivation! What if she gets a C?!
Ugh. If only things could go back to the way they were, when everything was simpler, happier…before the fire.
DEFECTIVE COMICS PRESENTS: THE ARACHNID ENFORCER
A brand-new, 48 page creator-owned superhero parody comic from Jim Mahfood
1986.
Chaos has come to the streets of All Hallowsville! The Arachnid Enforcer and his sidekick Gangster Boogie get caught up in a web of spookified mysticism gone wrong. Can they learn to be real heroes or will pure evil enslave their city?
THE ARACHNID ENFORCER is an over-the-top, creator-owned, Halloween-flavored, superhero parody comic book unlike any other! An incredible fusion of creepified heroics, indy comics, horror, comedy, and psycho-sensual mayhem!
48 pages of glorious destruction and fun from fan-favorite artistic sensation Jim Mahfood (Savage Street Vigilante, Into The Spider-Verse, Grrl Scouts, Tank Girl).
Hospice: The Scaled Key – A Supernatural, Horror Comic
Redgrave as a hunter controls demons that he conquers while trying to close the gateway to hell with his dragon scaled arm as the key.
Hospice is an ambitious shared universe horror project that started in 2023 for the first season’s trade, created by a powerhouse team of creators: Travis Gibb, Frank Martin, Jamie Primack, Russell Nohelty, David Byrne, and Michael Watson. Together, they delivered a chilling, interconnected world that pushes the boundaries of horror storytelling, blending their unique voices into a haunting experience unlike anything you’ve seen before. Each story is standalone and has the unique style and flair of their respective creators.
WELCOME TO SEASON 2 OF THE WORLD OF HOSPICE! A SHARED UNIVERSE COMIC! THIS IS 1 OF 6 BOOKS THAT YOU CAN GET BY SOME OF THE TOP CREATORS IN INDIE COMICS
Alistair Redgrave, a generational demon hunter, loses his arm in hell while the only gateway back to Earth tries to close. He now is on the hunt to find demons that have managed to slip through splinters of what’s left of the door. Capturing these demons gives him access to control them while regrowing his arm to finally shut the door to hell for good.
It’s Devil May Cry meets Hellboy with a Pokémon like twist.
The Amazing Spider-Man Classic Newspaper Comics
Stan Lee and John Romita’s Classic Comic Strips collected in a deluxe softcover slipcase edition by Clover Press and LOAC!
For the first time ever in softcover, Stan Lee and John Romita’s THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN NEWSPAPER COMICS returns to print in Clover Press’s spectacular new line of deluxe slipcase editions!
The Amazing Spider-Man swung into newsprint on Monday, January 3, 1977! The web-slinger’s daily strip brought Marvel’s most popular hero from comic pages to newspapers worldwide. Through Stan Lee’s storytelling and John Romita’s masterful art, the strip delivered dramatic storylines that pitted Spidey against classic foes while introducing brand new characters…like The Rattler! In doing so, the strip helped make Spider-Man a household name beyond the comic book stands.
The Library of American Comics remastered and collected the strip in a series of hardcover collections, many of which are out of print, and highly sought after. Now, Clover Press and The Library of American Comics are bringing the collections back to print in an affordable softcover format!
We’re collecting the strip strictly by year, reprinting each installment from January 1 to December 31. Each volume will measure 11? x 8.5? in a horizontal format. Additionally, each book will slide into a vertical slipcase, designed for protection and easy shelving.
In this first offering, we’re collecting the strip from the years 1977 to 1980. By backing this Kickstarter campaign, you will receive all four volumes in one bundle, plus have the opportunity for special tiers and add-ons as detailed below!
Jaycen Wise & the Tablets of Kush
Jaycen is an immortal hero who reclaims stolen artifacts from museums and returns them to their ancestral homes.
The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 3]
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
The Comics Courier is a tabloid-sized newspaper-format journal of in-depth comics criticism aimed at fans who love a tactile, old school reading experience.
Each issue of the Courier is writer-driven, which means that our writers choose their own topics based on their own comics-related interests, so you’ll find a diversity of types and eras of comics written about in each issue.
Our third issue will be packed with great essays, reviews, and interviews from comics critics and journalists, Susana Polo, Jeremy Dauber, Sara Century, Claire Napier, Zack Deane, Kate Tanski, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Oliver Sava, Benjamin Clark, Steve Morris, David Harper, and Tiffany Babb.
Like with our first two issues (which you can pick up here or as an Add-On to your pledge), we are aiming to create a new space for vibrant and rigorous writing about comics in print form as well as a slower, more intentional reading experience for those who love comics criticism like we do.
Thank you so much for your support, we can’t wait to get the third issue of The Comics Courier into your mailbox!
Goats Flying Press 2nd Anniversary Indie Comics Showcase
Celebrate two years of “Comics Against All Odds” with TWO NEW TITLES and great deals on our complete library!
Goats Flying Press is celebrating TWO YEARS of Comics Against All Odds..…and YOU’RE invited!
In our first two years as an independent comics publisher, Goats Flying Press has successfully run four Kickstarer campaigns, with over 1700 Backers coming together to raise more than $125,000!
We’re celebrating with a campaign to publish TWO all-new comics, AND show off our complete library at great deals and in great bundles.
The Consumption #1 (of 3):
When humanity is relegated to the status of “raw material” for an invading alien consumer empire, whose appetite for infinite growth rivals even our own, the remnant of a customer service A.I. fuses with the body of the last human alive, creating a bio-organic avenging angel of our critically endangered species, in this over-the-top, balls-(and-all-other-parts)-to-the-wall Body Horror / Science Fiction extravaganza that would turn David Cronenberg’s stomach and make Paul Verhoeven blush!
The Dead and the Damned #3 (of 4):
The newest chapter of our very first title! In this dark fantasy apocalypse the world has been ravaged for centuries by a horrifying curse: all things that die return to wage war on the living. In this issue the Pallbearers and their pursuers race across the Ocean of Rot in a race to unravel the mystery of the Gravehand’s black crusade
Whether you’re an old goat who has been with us since the start or an all-new Backer we’re certain to have just the right Tier for you!
Unicorn: Vampire Hunter #1-9 – A Fantasy Adventure Comic
The unicorn who stabs vampires (with his horn, duh) battles his way out of hell.
The perfect vampire hunter is a unicorn…
…and now he’s battling the forces of hell. Over the past five years we have successfully funded issues #1-8 of Unicorn: Vampire Hunter, and now we are back on Kickstarter to fund issue #9!
Unicorn: Vampire Hunter is a fantasy adventure comic about a curious young woman, a wise wizard, and a unicorn with a penchant for killing vampires. It is a heartfelt story about friendship, love, and finding purpose in an unpredictable world.
Bixby Grant: Fangs & Brimstone #1-3: A Supernatural Mystery
Mummy Detective. Vampire sidekick. A demonic cult. A city on the brink of Hell. Bixby Grant’s case is heating up!
IXBY GRANT, PRIVATE EYE: FANGS & BRIMSTONE #3 IS A 30-PAGE COMIC BOOK, the third part of a 6-issue series. The full-color comic features a 20-page main story continuing the story of everyone’s favorite mummy detective, Bixby Grant – written by Patrick Coyle, with art by Gonzalo Martínez and Arthur Hesli. There’s also an 8-page backup story called Zombietown with art by Gonzalo Ruggieri, and the book was edited by Heather Antos.
For horror fans who prefer smarts and style over splatter, Bixby Grant, Private Eye blends noir grit, supernatural intrigue, and pulp-inspired action in the vein of Hellboy (B.P.R.D.), Gotham Central, and The Walking Dead. The Zombietown backup plunges deeper into Harbor City’s decaying underworld, where undead crime families rule and danger lurks around every corner.
LAUGH RIOT #1: A Comic Book About Anarchy and Play!
Laugh Riot #1 is a 24-page comic book by writer Louis Southard (X-O Manowar / Flash Gordon) and artist Devlin Baker (The Stranger).
In the fictional dystopia of Usonia, Thaddeus K. Gander has been the president for nearly forty years. His private military–the DOVE Corps–march the streets and protect the country from any threats to their regime. Gander is part of every facet to life from politics, news, business, sex, childrearing, and more.
Everything is Gander.
Then, one day, a strange little jester changes the world forever.
This is the story of Merry Andrew.
Get ready for the comic book of the century by writer Louis Southard (Flash Gordon / X-O Manowar), artist Devlin Baker (The Stranger / Comics Are Dying: The Comic), letterer Buddy Beaudoin (Green Arrow / Gatchaman), cover artist Julianne Griepp (Midnight Western Theatre: Witch Trial), and editor Kevin Ketner (Dynamite / Ablaze). With special variant cover art by popular artists Azoinab and Linden Cahill. Featuring campaign exclusive sticker art by beloved artist Lizah van der Aart.
The Comic Shop Anthology: A Hit TV Show Tie-In!
The Comic Shop is a TV comedy about a quirky crew who will do anything to save their shop – including: starring in their own comic!
The Comic Shop: The Comic is a 50-page anthology of short stories with your favorite character from the hit show The Comic Shop, AND original stories from the mind of show creator Cheyenne Ewulu!
Funded through Kickstarter, The Comic Shop is a TV comedy (created by Cheyenne Ewulu) about a quirky crew who will do anything to save their shop – including: starring in their own comic!
his tie-in comic anthology features stories by Cheyenne Ewulu (The Comic Shop), Zeno Robinson (My Hero Academia, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man), and Joshua David King (Project Super Crush), alongside comic creators Stephanie Williams (Nubia & The Amazons), Cody Ziglar (Futurama, Miles Morales: Spider-Man), Joe Illidge (Milestone), Paris Alleyne (Static: Up All Night), D.J. Kirkland (Young Men In Love), Tango (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind), Bex Glendining (On Starlit Shores), Chris Robinson (All Negro Comics, Black Panther), Akira B (Hairology)., and J Clarke!
The anthology is being printed under Lifeline Comics’ newest imprint, Powerline…
EVEL KNIEVEL #1 from Ringo Award-Winner 21`
The legendary daredevil makes the death-defying leap into comics. From Half Evil Comics, publisher of THE JUMP and THE BREACH.
The legendary daredevil EVEL KNIEVEL makes the death-defying leap into comics in his very first full-length series from the fine folks at Half Evil Comics!
Brought to life by Ringo Award-winning writer Rylend Grant (THE JUMP and THE PEACEKEEPERS), artist Dave Acosta (TERRORWAR, ELVIRA, and DRAGON), Letterer HdE, and editor R.E. Nelson… with some real bitchin’ covers by Ray-Anthony Height, Flops, Jon Pinto, and Fabio Alves.
Made possible with TONS of support from the Evel Knievel Brand, Kelly Knievel (Evel’s son), and the fine folks at the Evel Knievel Museum.
Evel is one of the most iconic characters in American history. A folk hero in the truest sense of the word. Well, we’ve leaned WAY the hell into that here.
I’m a screenwriter by trade. For over a decade, I’ve made my living writing smart, mind-bending action thrillers for directors like JJ Abrams, Ridley Scott, Justin Lin, John Woo, Luc Besson, and F. Gary Gray, so I can’t help but think of things in cinematic terms. Our original mandate here was to make Evel an adventurer, to find this character’s Smokey and the Bandit or his No Country for Old Men. And I think we ended up with something pretty damn incredible.
We see this story as a modern Western. Some fit of terrible befalls a community. Evel is the swaggery gunslinger who rides in on a steel horse, howling at the goddamn moon and solves the mystery, runs the bad guys out of town, and beds the local bombshell.
Fiction aside, we went out of our way to honor the actual history. This first story arc of the series – titled THE LAST GLADIATOR – will start with Evel crashing at Caesar’s. We’ll be there when he goes from relative unknown to stratospherically-famous, essentially overnight. It’s then, when he has the entire world’s attention that he boldly declares that he’s going to jump Snake River Canyon.
We’ll also see him brawl with more bikers at the Cow Palace in San Francisco… we’ll be there for his wonderfully infamous “million dollar party” in Butte, Montana… we’ll see him win bets, bed woman, and fight jerks in bars… we’ll see him jump just about everything a lovable lunatic could on a motorcycle… and we’ll adore him for it.
Macabre Valley #1
A grindhouse Texas horror comic.
Macabre Valley is based on writer Zack Quaintance’s real experiences as a night cops reporter in McAllen, Texas. But with added werewolves. Quaintance is now an editor at The Beat, winner of this year’s Best Comics Journalism Eisner. And artist Anna Readman is a recent winner of the prestigious Observer/Faber graphic short story prize.
This issue — the first of four — is already done and will go to press ASAP with help from your pledges. Additional money raised will go toward off-setting production costs, and, ultimately, funding Macabre Valley #2.
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That’s a wrap for this week.
Next week we will return with new projects to spotlight also if you are crowdfunding a project and would like to be put in the Korner, drop us a line at chad@comic-watch.com, and we will take a look when we put together next week’s post.
