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.
We Belong
An All-Black, All-Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comics Anthology
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 26
WE BELONG is a comics anthology composed of 100+ pages of sci-fi and fantasy stories that center the queer Black perspective, all from queer Black creatives.
The lack of Black queer characters and stories inspired writer Viktor Kerney (StrangeLore) to develop a collection of these phenomenal tales. Co-editing alongside critic and comics creator William O. Tyler (Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers), they have assembled an array of incredible creators to share their stories, including Jay Hero, C.A.P. Ward, Ajuan Mance and many more!
These stories showcase the fact that, despite what the landscape of popular fiction says, Black queer people have and do exist everywhere, in every time and space. Whether we’re fighting monsters or becoming superheroes, we belong. From intergalactic adventures to interdimensional exploration, we belong. As wizards, as mermaids, as witches, fully as ourselves, we belong.
This joint venture between award-winning comics publisher Stacked Deck Press and Prism Comics, a nonprofit promoting LGBTQIA+ comics, comics creators, and fandom, is a moment not to be missed.
Tokyo Fire #1
Superpowered cops, superpowered criminals, radiation, revolution, leather-clad pyrokinetic mad men! Thieves, family, flame, Tokyo will burn.
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 26
After botching the “one last job” that was supposed to get them up and out of the irradiated slums of the futuristic “Lower Tokyo”, two small-time crooks, Tib and Wren, along with their mentor, aspiring hoverbike racer Lee, are caught between superpowered gangs, a violent police state, a class revolution, and a leather-clad, pyrokinetic madman trying to burn it all down. Thieves, family, flame, Tokyo will burn.
Written by T.S. Luther (Growing Up), drawn by Sky Hawkins (Exhaust), and lettered by Mike Stock (Dead Roots), Tokyo Fire is a seven-issue limited-series that follows two back-alley thieves as they navigate their final days in a city on the brink of collapse and unravel the conspiracy that led to its downfall.
Porkchop Robot Killer #1
Isolated in a dystopic wasteland, overrun by AI-driven robots, a lone pig is on a quest to smash them all!
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 26
Porkchop Robot Killer #1 is a 32 page, full color, special edition comic created by Tony Gregori (The Worst Dudes, TMNT, Deuce Of Hearts, Ancient Noise).
Originally inspired to honor a familial patriarch, Dominic “Porkchop” Gregori, Sr., the concept emerged from the sketchbook of a man sitting in a laundromat, doodling washer and dryers, thinking of odd combinations of appliances to source robot parts from, and the best possible creature to destroy them. A love of pigs, and especially talking pigs, lead to the birth of our heroic ham, PCRK!
Check out the Comic Watchers interview with Tony:
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August: Purgatory Underground – Book One
Benjamin W. Morse brings back the classic Captain August franchise in this epic collection of AUGUST: PURGATORY UNDERGROUND!
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 5
Benjamin W. Morse (We Are Scarlet Twilight) brings back the classic Captain August franchise in this epic collection of AUGUST: PURGATORY UNDERGROUND!
The book will also include a never before published 13 page prequel comprised of earlier drafts of the final story that fill in more of Captain August’s fall from celebrated hero to galactic pariah!
Death Sentence Trilogy & Artbook
Funding Goal: $2,000
Days Left: 11
People across North America and Europe are contracting the deadly G+ Virus, an STD that gives them weird abilities and six months to live. What can they do in the time they’ve got left? That’s the dilemma facing Verity, a frustrated artist, Weasel, a burned-out rock singer, and Monty, an insane movie star.
The more creative they get the more dangerous they become – because G+ is a virus that turns artists into gods, leading to an epic confrontation between our protagonists.
The series is wild, dark, and blackly funny, for mature readers. Each book continues on from the last and provides a satisfying story in its own right. You can start with any book or get the whole set, with the artbook adding the latest amazing artwork from series co-creator Monty Nero. It’s a deep, thrilling, intricately plotted series infused with fear and mystery that rewards repeat reading. Like all the best comics it features characters who feel touchingly real leading incredible lives we can only dream of.
If you’re into Akira, William Gibson or Grant Morrison and detailed atmospheric art then you’ll love this series, with Death Sentence hailed as timeless comic art and writing. It has been favorably compared to the greatest graphic novels ever made, with some of the best art and most addictive storytelling ever.
This is the perfect time to get the entire epic story, a decade in the making, and explore the fresh vision in the new artbook!
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Star Marshals
Cleaning up the galaxies one perp at a time.
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 5
From the creative team that brought you HERO HAPPY HOUR, the comic book about superheroes hanging out in a bar, comes STAR MARSHALS, the comic book about space cops, umm…hanging out in, uh—space. This is the sci-fi buddy cop comic book that you didn’t know you were missing.
These are the investigations of the Intergalactic Justice Coalition Marshals. Their oath of service: to apprehend wanted fugitives; to investigate intergalactic violations and felonies. To boldly skew where science fiction and police procedural tropes have gone before.
It’s Lethal Weapon meets Star Wars.
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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Foul Mouth: The Superhero Who Gets Her Powers From Cursing — 33 Days, 42% Funded
- BASEMENT SHOW: A One-Shot Punk Rock Horror Comic — 15 Days, 20% Funded
- FREE HANDS Issues 1 & 2— 5 Days, 70% Funded
- Optometry: A Graphic Novel — 12 Days, 87% Funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- [Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology[vol.2] — 9 Days Left
- Mike Grell’s Jon Sable Freelance Deluxe Hardcover Vol 1 & 2 — 8 Days Left
- The Beast & Snow #1 – NSFW Queer Fairytale Romance — 12 Days Left
- ANTICUCHO and other Peruvian Cyberpunk stories— 11 Days Left
- EXPOSURE: TOP SECRET BOXED SET — 8 Days Left
- Murder City Devil 3 — 12 Days Left
- Midnight Tiger: The Complete Origin — 17 Days Left
- ENGINE #1 — 3 Days Left
Evie and the Helsings #1–2
Evie Van Helsing just wants to rock…but she has to kill some vampires first.
Funding Goal: $7,000
Days Left: 24
For centuries, the Van Helsing family has protected humanity from things that go bump in the night. The last protector has fallen, and the mantle goes to her one surviving heir. The problem is, Evie Van Helsing just wants to rock.
Written by Steve Bryant (Athena Voltaire, The Catch, Ghoul Scouts) and drawn by Don Cardenas (Spend the Night, Off into the Sunset, Packs of the Low Country), with colors by Jason Millet (Athena Voltaire, Archie Versus Predator), Evie and the Helsings is a 4-issue miniseries that follows Evie’s adventures as she navigates life between two worlds. It’s like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets This is Spinal Tap by way of Ash Versus Evil Dead.
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Squalor
A Day in the Life of Stevie: A Penny for a Poem
Funding Goal: $1,000
Days Left: 5
Stevie has had a hard life. He struggles every day to find the basics like food and water. Behind his shocking exterior is a very sensitive lovable soul —similar to the Elephant Man— who throughout the book speaks in beautiful poetry, rhythmic song, and insightful narration; with a few mishaps along the way.
Follow his odyssey through city streets, back-alleyways, train yards, and down into the depths of the sewers, all to be washed away clean out the back end.
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WEREWOLF FRANKENSTEIN #1
What if ?Frankenstein was a ?werewolf? A gothic thriller graphic novella mashing up classic icons of horror!
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 13
This is a standalone graphic novella that contains a complete 40-page story, plus additional pages of bonus material. Same dimensions as most contemporary comic books. Funds will be used to cover printing and shipping costs.
A character who has fascinated readers and audiences for centuries is radically transformed and forced into new venues and confrontations unlike any he’s faced before!
Frankenstein’s Monster is already plagued with loneliness and immortality, now the horror of his existence is compounded with a new curse…
Time is running out as the lycanthropy slowly spreads from limb to limb, organ to organ—until it eventually infects his brain and his meager humanity is lost forever!
Do you love the Universal Monsters, the Hulk, or Disney’s Gargoyles like we do?
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NUCLEUS – The Legendary Mark Wheatley Art Book is back
Richly illustrated stories, comics, paintings & songs – with the return of Mark Wheatley’s fan-favorite characters.
Days Left: 41
FOURTH DIMENSIONAL Volume One: Summer of Fun
An Urban Sci-Fi Adventure about a young Persian woman and an Extra-Dimensional Fugitive! Story and Art by a single creator! 100+ pages!
Days Left: 5
Ava is a young woman trying to figure her life out, when an extra-dimensional fugitive named Mon falls right into it – bringing all the dangers and oddities from his dimension with him.
Ava leads Mon through parties and public transit, all the while facing the threats that have followed him. There are monstrous behemoths gorging on groceries, skittering goblins full of cynicism, and mindless creatures waiting for their prey. Together, Mon and Ava must unite these fugitives if they hope to survive.
THE CODEX Volume I – A Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel
A 196-page graphic novel about a man, mutant, druid and cyborg dog who are quested with vanquishing an ancient demon.
Funding Goal: $20,000
Days Left: 26
