By Chad Burdette

 on October 14, 2023

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.

Dracula The Return: Cult of The White Worm Books #1 and #2

Dacre Stoker, the great grand nephew of Bram Stoker, along with co writer Chris McAuley and art team Chris Geary & Matt Soffe make a triumphant return with publishers Scratch Comics and the second installment of this historic and authentic continuation of the classic novel.

After a hugely successful first issue the Great Grand Nephew of Bram Stoker, Dacre Stoker and his crack creative team of co writer and co creator Chris McAuley along with artists Chris Geary, David Hitchcock and Matt Soffe make a return with the second installment of the official comic book sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic novel “Dracula”

Gothic horror fans are in for a real treat this year as the Stokerverse expands the Dracula Mythos and introduces new characters from the history of gothic and pulp horror, reimagined as if Bram Stoker had written them.

Our surviving band of heroes from issue #1 begin to suspect that not all is well and although they have put an end to the threat of Dracula himself, his legacy continues with other creatures of the night still threatening England and perhaps even the world.

Little do they know that the Lord of Vampires has returns to our realm and is seeking the most hideous revenge on those who dared to thwart his plans… and he’s not alone either!

This book is the only official comic book sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula written by a member of the Stoker Family!

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John Benteen’s Fargo: Hell on Wheels graphic novel – adapted by Howard Chaykin

A 96+ page prestige format, action packed, hardcover graphic novel starring soldier of fortune Neal Fargo, based on the legendary ‘Fargo’ paperback series by John Benteen!

Let Her Be Evil

A celebration of unapologetically wicked women with cruel intentions—of the nasty, the vile, the rage-fueled mistresses who know exactly what they want and aren’t afraid to get it by any means necessary.

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Bomb Scares #1

Tick-tock, tick-tock…It’s time to stop the clock!

This series is a simple one: Inspired by the notorious EC horror comics of the fifties and the Warren horror mags of the seventies, Bomb Scares was originallyally a horror anthology released through Kickstarter as a series of black and white 100-page volumes, and edited by Paul H Birch.

Bomb Scares is here to rock your mortal souls to the very bone with a crowded houseful of horror-chocked graphic narratives from the following amazing international talents such as:

• Dead by Mel Smith, Clark Castillo, Birch & Alex Nino

  Sailing in on the high seas, is this stark thriller of epic survival against the carnivorous desires of the undead; now risen and roaming the earth, as illustrated by a true living legend of the comics medium.

• Amongst The Trees by Liam Sharp

  Existentialism, alienation and indifference are all pondered in a tense and chilling vignette crafted by one of today’s leading comic book creators.

• Home Front: by John Erasmus

  There’s nothing to be trifled at when a dinner party hosted by a serial killer goes horribly wrong in this hilarious soap-opera send-up of a saga

With the third volume appearing back in October 2021 it then seemed the perfect opportunity to take Bomb Scares in a different direction. The result is Bomb Scares #1: a relaunched, reformatted, more streamlined anthology package that will include both color and black and white strips with content intended to scare, intrigue, bemuse and repulse – and throw in a dash of unexpected pitch-black humour too

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COVEN: A Book of 100 Witches

Sassy, sexy and full of supernatural charm, Richard Pace’s witches have proved remarkably popular.

All 62 daily drawings from Witchtober 2022 and 2023 as well as the 38 weekly Witchy Wednesday drawings are now contained in this book.

Capturing the best of Spooky Season for you to enjoy year-round as these women cast their spell on you as you turn the pages

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The Feeding

Nolan Ward has tried everything to outrun it, but it’s finally caught up to him. And it’s hungry…

Something wicked this way comes… For the first time since 2019, the team behind the hit series CANTO reunites for something new and decidedly more sinister. Join Eisner-nominated writer David M. Booher and fan-favorite artist Drew Zucker, along with CANTO colorist Vittorio Astone and letterer AndWorld Design, for a twisted new one-shot horror story that you’ll have to read to believe.

Investment banker Nolan Ward is on top of the world–wealthy, fit, attractive, and available. Yet, his drug-fueled partying masks a darker past. When he meets a mysterious art gallery owner, he’ll come face-to-face with the ghost that has haunted him all his life. It’s a painting called The Feeding. It has returned… and it’s ready for its next meal.

The Feeding is a twisted new one-shot horror story that you’ll have to read to believe. For the first time since 2019, Eisner-nominated writer David M. Booher (RAIN, KILLER QUEENS) and fan-favorite artist Drew Zucker (THE HOUSE) have teamed up with CANTO colorist Vittorio Astone and letterer AndWorld Design once more for new story that’s decidedly more sinister!

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Lost Children of Andromeda: The Arrival

The awakening of humanity begins…just as the world starts to end

The year is 2040…Twelve years before the projected apocalypse. A team of scientists contracted by the military known as The Andromeda Project are tracking the arrival of an alien energy from another galaxy. Lead on that project are two rivals, Captain Nicolas Delemar and Professor Patrick Adams. No one knows how the energy will arrive and what damage it could do to the planet, so Patrick has worked diligently to create protection mechanisms at the projected site of the landing, Cumberland Falls, Kentucky.

Allister Adams, a boy with the curiosity and fear of any seven-year old, has accompanied his dad, Patrick, to his workplace at Andromeda Power, the nearby plant. In this story, we are plunged into the lingering aftermath of a severe thunderstorm. We feel a young boy’s angst and a protective parent’s uncertainty in lines like, “Storms aren’t meant to hurt us. That’s just Mother Nature telling us how she feels.” But the violence in the sky feels anything but natural. Something is coming that will change Earth forever. Could it be the beginning of the end?

It soon becomes clear that courage will be the only light that can lead Allister and his dad. And even that may not be enough to survive

Already a succesful sci-fi book series, The Arrival is the first official comic book from the Lost Children of Andromeda universe. This story follows Allister Adams, the main character of the LCOA series, as we learn the origins of his abilities and the apocalypse. A catastrophic superstorm threatens the unsuspecting citizens of Cumberland Falls, sending Allister and his father Patrick on the run in hopes of survival.

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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:

• The Dead and the Damned #1 – 18 Days Left
• 2nd Place Graphic Novel – 17 Days Left

 Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:

• GENERAL STRIKE: Calexit & Other Tales of The Good Fight – 6 Days Left
• Hospice: Skin Deep – A Horror One Shot (NSFW)  – 5 Days Left
• PRODIGAL SON #1 – 3 Days Left
• BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE: HINAGON One Shot and Chapters 1 & 2 – 5 Days Left
• Adult Human Female 2024 – 11  Days Left
• Head Hauntcho – 17  Days Left
• Isaki Uta: The Lost & Found Collection– 17  Days Left
• THE MIDNIGHT ORDER – Supernatural Horror  – 6 Days Left
• Nothing Special: The Art of Adventure – 13 Days Left

Packrat & Thunderbunny: Issue 1

First issue of a humorous, action-packed superhero buddy comic book 35+ years in the making.

Instead, they created their greatest enemy – SAMSON!

But now, years after the war, Samuel discovers that the original Uberfhurer may still be alive and that Project Uberfuhrer may be up and running again.

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Legalization Nation began in late 2020 after spending a year in the Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Program. The problems with the market were myriad and obvious but there is very little coverage of this in mainstream or cannabis media. There’s not a big appetite for critical, real world reporting from the grower/patient/consumer perspective. The media is focused on tax money, profits and celebrity brands. Legalization Nation focuses on the corruption and hypocrisy in our state cannabis legalization programs. The strip acts as a voice for people who care about cannabis but have little recourse to fix this sinking ship.

This book collects the first 3 years of reporting on the cannabis landscape. Legalization Nation runs weekly and is influential on the attitudes in the cannabis space.

This book is a document of the last three years of cannabis legalization. It serves a guide for how to legalize and even more so how not to legalize. Read this book and you’ll never purchase corporate cannabis again.

This is a full color, hardcover collection of the first 156 weekly Legalization Nation comic strips or 3 full years of coverage.

Former soldier David Marshall recently lost his beloved wife, and with her, his will to carry on. Not quite able to take his own life, David instead sells everything that doesn’t fit into the back of his Jeep, and with his dog Mags is ready to hit the road “like Caine in Kung-Fu.”

That’s until Rachel, a daughter he didn’t know he had, bursts onto the scene pursued by a terrifying creature she insists is a demon.

Barely escaping with their lives, David grudgingly agrees to hear more of Rachel’s story . . . and discovers his life is far from meaningless.