We here at Comic Watch want to highlight and support those projects across the various platforms, especially those projects that still need a push along with those stretch goals.
Below is a brief synopsis of the project; for more details and to support the projects, click on the link to the campaign page.
Pink Midnight Presents: Barber Psychic
Follow eighty years in one man’s life, as Clarence tries to do what’s right by doing nothing, even as an increasingly uncertain future threatens to swallow him whole.
Days Left: 19
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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- ONE-SHOT: A Chaotic Fantasy Adventure — 11 Days Left, 51% Funded
- Arledge Comics’ 2023-24 Comic Line Up — 14 Days Left, 51% Funded
- Here Comes CALICO – Issue 7 — 20 Days Left, 62% Funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- NUCLEUS – The Legendary Mark Wheatley Art Book — 14 Days Left
- Professor Dario Bava: Orgy of the Blood Freaks 1 & 2 — 11 Days Left
- The Ex-Wives of Frankenstein 1 — 5 Days Left
- Hospice: One Damned Good Thing – A One-shot Horror Comic — 9 Days Left
- ALTERED EGO: Blocked — 10 Days Left
- DOUBLE FEATURE! Cereal Killer & Welcome to Monster World — 9 Days Left
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Headlocked: Tales From The Road Volume 3
An anthology of short stories set in the Headlocked universe, co-created by some of the biggest names in wrestling.
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 16
Now, to date, we’ve published twenty chapters (the next five are in production as we speak) become a staple on the convention circuit, impressed a ton of wrestlers, and got featured in places like Sports Illustrated, Forbes, and even WWE.com.
We were having so much fun making Headlocked and we’d impressed so many wrestlers with our work..in 2016, with the help of WrestleCrate USA and now Pro Wrestling Crate, we decided to launch a sister title called Tales From The Road!
To date, we’ve collaborated with over forty wrestlers on stories for Tales From The Road from legends like Ric Flair, Booker T, and Mick Foley to current stars like AJ Styles, Thunder Rosa, Cody Rhodes, and Brody King! We’ve told stories in just about every genre you can imagine from a Troma-inspired urban legend by Dolph Ziggler, to a Christmas-themed tale with deathmatch legend Nick Gage, to a video game based story with Kenny Omega.
And when you mix the general insanity of the wrestling business with the creativity of professional wrestlers and the limitlessness of comics…it can get a little crazy.
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START AGAIN: Naughty Surprise
Sex, violence and superheroes.
Funding Goal: $2,484
After a night out gone wrong Ajay Verma sees his secret identity, and compromising images, leaked on the internet while accidently dragging his family, friends and a new love interest, Natalie Brown, into the dangerous world of superheroes.
A new comic series full of sex and violence awaits. This comic contains explicit content and is not suitable for anyone under the age of 18
THE DEATH TALLY #1-4 | A Contemporary Fantasy
After accidentally killing the Grim Reaper, a young woman inherits its powers as well as all its enemies.
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 5
When Ahva accidentally kills the Reaper, she is suddenly forced to become the new one. As it turns out, life and death isn’t quite turning out how she assumed it would.
As Ahva is further immersed in this strange new world, she finds herself charged with the impossible task of keeping balance by ending the lives of a set number of humans daily. Is it worth it if the alternative is an apocalyptic future?
THE DEATH TALLY is a limited series and contemporary fantasy delving into themes of grief and coming of age in a tumultuous world. It draws influences from a wide range of genres, from magical girl to shonen. This fourth issue is a 24-page comic that continues the story where the last one left off. With the sudden kidnapping of Ahva’s boyfriend!
“Hell”oween
Anthology Comic
Funding Goal: $6,000
Days Left: 19
“HELL”OWEEN is a one-issue, 32-page comic book featuring 4 horror stories drawn by 4 different popular artists but tied together by a continuing storyline written by horror novel and comic book author Joe Janowicz. The story follows two teenagers and their younger brother and sister as they go off in separate ways on Halloween night encountering different costumed monsters who’ve come to life as all “hell” breaks loose.
Individual stories feature werewolves, vampires, zombies, and a witch.
In each story the kids narrowly escape the menaces they face, and in the end return home safe and sound… or do they, as a twist ending shockingly tie the horrific evening events together.
The interior art of the comic will be in black and white with the color “blood red” only used where necessary in the story for shock purposes. Each short story will be introduced by a sexy vamp-ish female “hostess” Lucy, short for Lucifer. Similar in sensual looks to Vampirella or Lady Death, but drawn in a unique appearance all her own, Lucy may also become a future comic series.
Each contributing artist will also draw their own horror-theme variant cover highlighting their illustrated story. Exclusive signed variant covers of all the “HELL”OWEEN books and original artwork will be available through sponsorship packages.
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Gateway City Vol. IV: American Trust
The fourth installment in the Pulp/Sci-Fi series set in prohibition St. Louis. Gangsters, aliens, and a talking bear!
Funding Goal: $2,484
Days Left: 10
If you don’t know your McCausland from your Skinker, lemme play tour guide: Gateway City is a pulp/sci-fi story about a bunch of intergalactic aliens who’re engaged in a bit of dark tourism in prohibition-era St. Louis, Missouri, cosplaying as bootleggers, molls, and gangsters. While their arrival is secret, within a day of them setting foot on Earth’s soil, they assassinate the city’s special prosecutor for organized crime and throw a big gladiatorial spectacle at the fairground. The detective, lawyer, and informants whom the late prosecutor hired to help clean up the city are thrust into a criminal operation that extends well past the Mississippi.
In the last volume of Gateway City, armed-to-the-teeth aliens were out on the streets of St. Louis in broad daylight, looking to score the scalps of Lundy and his partners, as well as the ruthless mobster, Bumper Donati. Lundy and Sam managed to take a few scalps of their own, while Martha and Cal discovered a strange piece of alien technology. Down in the sticks of southeastern Missouri, Theresa and Fritz are struggling to see how a girl and her bear fit into this crazy world.
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Foul Mouth: The Superhero Who Gets Her Powers From Cursing
Her Gift Is To Curse!
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 12
From the bat$h!t mind who brought you fast killer sloths (Slow Pokes), chancleta wielding grandmas who fight zombies (Zombie Date Night) and Santa fighting robots (X-Maschina), comes a superhero whose gift…is to CURSE!
After the divorce of her parents, teenager Faye Flik is adjusting to her new surroundings. A new city, a new home, and after accidentally getting possessed by a demon, new abilities that turn her curse words into the ultimate weapon against evil.
With amazing art and colors by Sarah Davidson (Hollow, Hero Too) and lettering that brings the whole project to life by HdE, this 20-page comic is filled with laughs, heart, and a F*#! Ton of action.
Check out this interview with Creator Steve Urena
INFERNO GIRL RED BOOKS ONE & TWO by Mat Groom + Erica D’Urso
The hit graphic novel series continues — with more superhero drama, teen angst and Tokusatsu action!
Funding Goal: $85,000
Days Left: 5
INFERNO GIRL RED combines the high school super-heroic drama of INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE with the dynamic storytelling and world-building of Japanese tokusatsu superheroes, and the intrigue and relationship drama of British boarding school fiction.
Join writer Mat Groom (Marvel Comics’ ULTRAMAN) artist Erica D’Urso (CAPTAIN MARVEL and XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS), colorist Igor Monti (RADIANT BLACK, DEEP CUTS), letterer Becca Carey (ROGUE SUN, REDLANDS), editor Kyle Higgins (RADIANT BLACK, NIGHTWING, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS) for an action-packed, 120+ page graphic novel.
Missed INFERNO GIRL RED: BOOK ONE? Don’t worry: this campaign allows you to pledge for both BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO– in either digital or deluxe, oversized hardcover forms!
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The Muck by Aaron Thompson
One person’s trash, is another person’s terror. ‘The Muck’ holds the key to changing your life forever. Fantasy/Psychological/Thriller
Funding Goal: $3,124
Days Left: 14
That’s a wrap for this week from us, 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.