Mike Eakins
Welcome to Comic Watch’s Kickstarter Korner!
It’s that time when we spotlight some projects that we hope you will support and help spread the word about these great indie titles and don’t forget to check out our previous posts to see if some of those campaigns are still running:
Kickstarter Korner for October 8, 2022
Age of Comics: The Golden Years
- Current Funding: $158,941
- Funding Goal: $24,468
- Days Left: 4
- Link: Age of Comics: The Golden Years
Age of Comics: The Golden Years is a medium-light worker-placement board game. Play the role of a fictional comic-book publishing company during the golden age of comics (circa 1938-56)
Age of Comics: The Golden Years is the first board game about the comic book publishing industry. It has been developed by Sonia Goncalves and Giacomo Cimini.
It features a period-inspired design and twenty-four original and unique covers/cards by artist Laura Guglielmo.
In the game, you must allocate your editors (meeple-workers). Hire your creative team. Find the right ideas. Publish the best comic books across six genres: Horror, Superheroes, Scifi, Crime, Western, and Romance.
Nightcare – Adventures in Superhero Babysitting!
- Current Funding: $4,651
- Funding Goal: $6,500
- Days Left: 5
- Link: Nightcare – Adventures in Superhero Babysitting!
What’s Nightcare? If you’re a superhero, it’s where you can drop your kids off as you head out into the night to do some good. If you’re a supervillain, it’s where you can drop of your kids before you go and get up to no good. If you’re just a normal, every day person who has a child that is developing superpowers, it’s where you can drop your kiddo off at so they can learn about their abilities and develop them.
We took our love of John Hughes movies and infused it with our love of teen superheroes. The result was Adventures in Babysitting The Teen Titan Runaways — or as we like to call it, Nightcare. It’s a 48-page, full color comic about a group of very special children who are not taken seriously, and who have to step up to save one of their friends when everyone tells them not to. They put aside their prejudices to become something mightier than anyone could have imagined. The world can be a big, scary place and sometimes terrible things happen — but with some determination and the right set of friends, anything is possible.
The story begins with AURORA SWIFT being taken to Nightcare for the very first time. Her parents are not superheroes or supervillains, but their little girl is special. Not only does she have autism and ADHD, she seems to move at the speed of thought, appearing on the other side of the room in the time it takes them to blink. They want her in a program that will help her harness her abilities while being around other children her age who are going through the same thing.
Aurora starts going to Nightcare and everything seems great — but then one of her friends, Anomaly, is kidnapped. Anomaly is snatched away in the middle of the night. The kids are, rightfully so, freaking out. If Anomaly could be kidnapped, any of them could be! They were supposed to safe here! The adults and the security systems were supposed to protect them! Feeling as though everything and everyone has failed them, they take it upon themselves to find their friend. Aurora takes on the name HUMMINGBIRD and they head out into the night!
Atomic Robo and the Vengeful Dead
- Current Funding: $31,754
- Funding Goal: $23,400
- Days Left: 14
- Link: Atomic Robo and the Vengeful Dead
Atomic Robo was created by Nikola Tesla way back in the ’20s. Since then, Robo’s tussled with air pirates, mad scientists, a dinosaur who is also a mad scientist, vampires, and at one point cowboys. Atomic Robo and the Vengeful Dead is the latest chapter in Robo’s exciting life. Now he’s…sort of a university administrator? But for a sci-fi action school to train the next next generation of ACTION SCIENTISTS, including his sorta-secret robot son with the rebooted intelligence core from the Advanced Learning Algorithm Network that nearly killed all life on Earth, and framed Atomic Robo for it, and got Tesladyne shut down by the secret fascist science police, which indirectly threatened all life on Earth (again), and got a bunch of his comrades probably killed and definitely hunted as terrorists for a few years. But he’s doing much better now.
I Am Hexed: Volume 1
- Current Funding: $9,776
- Funding Goal: $3,000
- Days Left: 19
- Link: I Am Hexed: Volume 1
The collected 1st volume of all four issues of this original comic about the political struggles of modern-day witches. Witches have been a part of the political fabric of Washington D.C. since it was founded. It’s only since the 1960s that witches stood together and fought to take back the word “hexed.” A movement was ignited when witches came out of the shadows and proudly showed off their broomsticks. The witch-hunt for Charlie, Jaya, and Florence continues as they find themselves on the run from malevolent forces both inside and outside the government. The three witches must harness their powers to defend themselves while unraveling a mystery that could save the entire witching community.
My Neighbor Has a Red Curtain
- Current Funding: $2,075
- Funding Goal: $680
- Days Left: 17
- Link: My Neighbor Has a Red Curtain
Criminologist Erie Lockhart recounts the summers she met and befriended Redford Wild, a florist/gardener serial killer in the 1970s. In 2019 I wrote a poem called ‘My Neighbor Has a Red Curtain,’ which soon became the idea for a full-length story featuring my original characters. I knew despite their full story, I still wanted to complete the minicomic. It took three years but I finally sat down and the minicomic was brought to life. My Neighbor Has a Red Curtain is a condensed retelling of events by Erie Lockhart, a criminology student, as she recalls the summers she met and befriended florist/gardener serial killer Redford Wild in the early 70s.
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That’s a wrap for this week from us, but if you are running Kickstarter and would like to be put in the Korner, drop us a line at micheal@comic-watch.com or chad@comic-watch.com, and we will take a look when we put together next week’s post.