250 BACKERS!
almost 4 years ago
– Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 06:12:14 PM
Hey all,
Hope the weekend is treating you well. I just wanted to check in quickly and let you all know that we hit 250 backers today. Quite the milestone. The campaign ends on Thursday night. This final week is going to be epic. Much more stretch goal fun to come, so please tell a friend, huh?
Stay safe out there!
RG
P.S. Before I go, I wanted to highlight two projects that caught my eye this week...
Digitopia is a pre-apocalyptic action adventure story of a father and daughter trying to survive in a civilisation that is imploding, where everyone from the army, society and bounty hunters are out to get them.
We tackle some pretty hard hitting issues in these books including the rise of the hard right, fake wars and the brutality of the state, fake news and what drives media biases, all encapsulated in a super high adrenaline action adventure - think 'The Matrix' meets 'The Running Man'.
JUST 22 HOURS LEFT TO CHECK THIS ONE OUT, SO GET ON IT!
Born into the outcast breed of werewolves known as the Monoki, eighteen-year-old Rodney Marcelli is reluctantly thrown into an ancient war between good and evil in today's world where the line has blurred. With the help of Snow Paw, the Pureblood Monoki, and the supernatural evil slayer, Night Hunter, Rod must learn to master his newly found lycanthropy and mysterious kinetic energy power that only he possesses. Rod must fight the Dark Covenant in order to avenge his friends and family, and to save the girl he loves from the master vampire, Lord Malice. Rodney Marcelli is Night Wolf!
ONE WEEK TO GO!
almost 4 years ago
– Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 11:50:10 AM
Hey all,
With just a week left, we're humming... sitting at 240 backers and $12,552. I'll have that $13K stretch goal reveal and another podcast appearance to share before Monday is upon us, but I wanted to highlight a couple of our really amazing original art tiers here just in case you were thinking about making a pledge upgrade.
ORIGINAL ART - HAND-DRAWN CHARACTERS FROM THE JUMP
Score a one-of-a kind piece of original hand-drawn art from Fabio Alves. These are A5 format (roughly 6x8 inches) and feature characters from THE JUMP.
ORIGINAL ART - B&W COMMISION FROM FABIO ALVES
Got something you want drawn? Well, then why not commission JUMP/BANJAX artist Fabio Alves to draw you an original B&W pin up? You pick the subject matter. Anything goes.
ORIGINAL ART - FULL COLOR COMMISSION
Got something you want drawn? Fabio will still do it, but why not go the extra mile and have your piece rendered in full, beautiful color? Again, you pick the subject matter. Again, anything goes.
A few shout-outs before I let you go today. Some friends have some really intriguing campaigns running right now:
"Imprisoned in her mystical sleep for fifteen hundred years, give or take, Morgan Le Fay has been discovered & restored to a shadow of her former glory by a cabal of powerful beings calling themselves the Triple Moon. For no less than thirteen years, Le Fay will serve this group, and at the end of that service she will be given the means by which she can restore her power. Until that time, she will be their trouble shooter, on call 24/7, no job too big or too small. The Triple Moon’s very own private investigator." Paul- Pullbox Reviews
This is a modern take on the classic villain from Arthurian legend brought into the present in an urban setting. Ever wonder what Jessica Jones would be like if she happened to be a powerful sorceress? That's Le Fay in a nutshell.
New to Le Fay? Read 10 pages of issue 1 HERE.
Kia Wordsmith lives in city where Magic and Science work in harmony, a city that has known peace for centuries. A city now at war. Bored by the city's attempts to carry on as normal Kia searches for excitement, and even welcomes a little danger.
In the Kickstarter funded first issue (Kia Wordsmith Issue 1) we saw how this leads to her stealing from a wizard. Issue 2 picks up right where that one left off with 25 colour story pages, once again illustrated by the very talented Ian Ashcroft.
Jesse is a spook. Her latest foreign mission has landed her in a death trap. She saw something she wasn’t supposed to and now her “assignment", a Warlord, wants her dead. Jesse learns from her boyfriend, Blake, that the warlord knows he is bound for Hell when he dies and his philosophy is it's best to rule Hell than just be there to suffer. The Warlord has turned to necromancy to build an army of souls to take Hell. Will Jesse and Blake be able to stop him? Or will they join the Warlord's ranks of hell-bound souls...
Necromantic is a new 144 page graphic novel. An action packed thriller with a steaming-hot love story that not even death can stop.
The Kickstarter includes a virtual convention with the creators, as well as online masterclasses with the writer and artists.
Stay safe! Talk soon!
Rylend
$12K! AND a little love from Bleeding Cool
almost 4 years ago
– Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:55:21 AM
Hey all,
We passed the $12K mark over the weekend and are currently steamrolling towards that $13K stretch goal. Reveal on that coming soon.
In other news, the fine folks at Bleeding Cool - one of the biggest and baddest comic sites in the land - surprised me with a very enthusiastic write up on THE JUMP this morning. Click the pic below and have a look:
Great write up. I don't know about you guys, but I also suddenly REALLY want some chewing gum???
A few shout-outs before I let you go today. Some friends have some really intriguing campaigns running right now:
Beastlands is an action adventure story set in a beautiful medieval fantasy world, where some people have companion beasts known as "Keepers".
In Beastlands you'll go on an adventure with a group of 3 teenage friends, Mac, Ava and Ping. They're on a journey to find out what Mac's father, an explorer, was trying to discover before he disappeared. On this quest their friendships will be put to the test all while a tyrannical King looks to outlaw Keepers from the land.
Who will love Beastlands?
- Fans of Pokemon, Digimon, Game of Thrones, Monster Hunter, The Witcher, How to Train your Dragon, The Last Airbender and other fantasy worlds filled with unique creatures.
- Fans of comics like Saga, Isola, Seven to Eternity, Deadly Class, Coda, Extremity, Middlewest and Low.
- People who like the beautiful films by Studio Ghibli and their wonderous stories and worlds.
- If you like comics with a charming fantasy world, with BEAUTIFUL ART and a heartful, genuine, emotional and impactful story.
This one just earned that coveted PROJECT WE LOVE tag from Kickstarter and they have some REALLY GREAT early bird deals for the next 48 hours or so, so GET ON IT!
One of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare - collides with an ancient and hungry evil. WAR IS HELL.
Madius Comics and Mad Robot Comics are proud to present Hell In Stalingrad - the first collaboration between writers Rob Jones (Griff Gristle, Tragic Tales of Horrere, Paperbacks and Inkstains) and Matt Hardy (Murder Most Mundane, Cadavers, Last Exit to Brighton).
With an eye catching cover by 2000AD and Battle Tanks artist P.J. Holden - and gritty, realistic art from Horrere alumni Russell MacEwan.
Hell in Stalingrad is an 80-page pulp horror graphic novel, in the vein of classic war story comics such as DC Thomson's Commando. It is a complete story, told in one A5 sized collection - utilsing black and white and single colour artwork.
Set in the midst of the Battle of Stalingrad - with the Soviet Kessel slowly engulfing the German forces. We follow the story of a German soldier, Ernst, andVassily, his Russian counterpart, as they must set aside vast ideological differences in a bid to thwart an otherworldly threat.
Retro Sci-Fi Tales is an anthology comic in the style of Heavy Metal and 2000AD. Each issue is packed full of amazing stories and fantastic art, by dozens of high calibre creators.
View alien worlds through a telescope at the 1878 'World's Fair' in Paris, see Swashbuckling Heroes battle giant monster fish in the underwater depths of an alien planet, discover why soulless 'hollow' people wander city streets in the aftermath of nuclear war, watch a futuristic submarine attempt to rescue holidaymakers from a volcano island resort, join gangster robot thugs in grungy urban ghettos, and marvel at the world's most powerful Human Cannonball - all this and more in issue #9 of Retro Sci-Fi Tales.
Stay safe out there, guys!
Rylend
Write up on ComicCon.com and shout outs from friends
almost 4 years ago
– Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:39:52 AM
Hey all,
THE JUMP received a really nice write up from Malissa White over at comicon.com yesterday...
Here's the gist if you're not into clicking links...
"A great story with great art."
"A meticulous, well-thought out world."
"Timely commentary."
"It should come as no surprise that Grant’s writing far exceeds expectations."
"I love it when a story offers a good mystery, but knows how to pull the rug out from under us in the end."
Well, we'll go ahead and call that one a rave.
Also, our friend and comic-book-editor-extraordinaire Steve Colle gave us a really incredible shout on facebook this morning that I thought was worth sharing:
It's wonderful for us to read stuff like this, obviously... but also, endorsements like this make all the difference in the crowdfunding game. A campaign lives or dies based on word of mouth. We count on folks telling other folks. We're sitting at 215 backers and $11,480 as I type this... and its because of people like Steve and people like you... so, tell a friend!
Thanks so much again for all the love and support here.
Stay safe out there!
Rylend
P.S. - A few shout-outs before I let you go today. Some friends have some really intriguing campaigns running right now:
Our Final Halloween is a horror comic inspired by the likes of HP Lovecraft and John Carpenter. Starting on Halloween 1984 a group of teens find themselves covered in blood, disorientated, and with no short-term memory. What follows is a tale of horror, mystery, and suspense, as our plucky young protagonists try to unravel the horrors of Our Final Halloween.
OFH just received that coveted PROJECT WE LOVE designation from Kickstarter, so this is one you definitely want to take a look at.
Super-Villains in a mega-prison in one book. Super-Heroes from Ireland in a second book. 2 books that are sure to entertain everyone!
BIG HOUSE BLUES - Gatesville, Texas. The Mega-Villain Reformatory. It is in here, in this domicile of concrete and twisted steel, that we find some of the deadliest mega villains humanity has to offer. Stripped of their unnatural abilities, along with their freedom, due to the power dampening collars bounded upon their necks. The quote, “stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage", never rang more true thanks to the innovative polarized bars that keep each cell's occupant in place.
Within this prison, nicknamed the Devils Den, the mega-powered correction officers are all that stand between a nervous public and some of the greatest evils the world has ever seen. Among those officers is Lee Coleman, otherwise known as Officer Alloy, chief guard in this deadly high security mega villain prison.
THE SQUAD - an Irish tale of seeming tragedy and mystery... when a megahero of the people goes MIA, his sidekick son must step up and try to uncover what exactly is going on. However, his father's covert life raises more questions than it provides answers.
Kevin Tully, AKA Straw Boy, is our hapless hero, who through deep digging and dedication, introduces us to a myriad of Irish megaheroes, set on a backdrop of a city and county at civil war.
How do our collection of heroes fit into this fast paced plot of societal unrest? You
can discover more, in the pages of... The SQUAD!
12 Latin artists have teamed up to create a comic series featuring a team of 6 LGBTQ heroes (Class6) whose fates are interconnected by an unforeseen force. Their mission is to defend vulnerable LGBTQ persons from hatred across the globe.
Here they've combined the first 6 issues into a 280 page MEGA "Midseason One" special. Check it out.
$11K and 200 Backers!
almost 4 years ago
– Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:34:35 AM
Hey all,
I just wanted to let you all know that we officially passed the 200 backer and $11,000 marks yesterday. Thanks so much again for your support. That $13K stretch goal is now firmly in our sights. Reveal coming on that soon.
Stay safe out there!
Rylend
P.S. Before I let you go I wanted to point you towards another project that caught my eye...
The Agency is Harry Potter meets Mission Impossible minus the wands! Follow Riley Dean a young mage and his journey into the International Agency of Magic.
This one was recently funded and is now onto stretch goals. Only 8 days left to give this one a whirl, so don't miss out!
