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CHAOS! COMICS RETURNS – THE EVIL ERNIE OMNIBUS COLLECTION!

Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Creative Team: Brian Pulido, Seven Hughes, and more
Launch Date: Funding Now – ends June 3 2026 11:00 PM EDT
Risk: Low – Dynamite has run and fulfilled numerous previous crowdfunding campaigns

Dynamite Entertainment and Coffin Comics are officially opening the vaults and reintroducing fans to some of the most beloved and revolutionary comics, as The Evil One makes his way to Kickstarter. Across three tantalizing tomes, the entire original Evil Ernie archives from the Chaos! Comics era have been restored and are available for readers anew with exclusive premiere pricing. The campaign is live now for a limited time!

For over two decades these iconic, trailblazing stories have been locked away. Out of print, hard to find, and a pretty penny. Fans have whispered among the back issue bins, scrambled for overpriced auctions, and collected in groups online to reflect back on how dangerous comic books used to feel. That ends now.

Chaos! Comics struck like lightning in 1993, capturing a unique mix of superhero staples with a horror bent that led to a legion of fiendish fans. It all started with the debut of Evil Ernie #1 a couple years prior. Ernie and the Chaos! energy weren’t just comics, it was a heavy metal way of life. Ernie represented rage, pain, rebellion, and dark humor, all channeled through the hottest medium of the 1990s. Creators Brian Pulido, Steven Hughes, and the rest of the top writers and artists who tackled these characters built a following that get together annually to this day. And now fans can return to that era and step into a new one, with the return of every key Ernie tale!

The Evil Ernie Omnibus Set features three volumes, oversized at 9 by 12 inches each. These meticulously restored collections feature every solo Evil Ernie and Smiley: The Psychotic Button story from 1991 to 2002. Each volume builds on the last, increasing in scope and intensity across around 500 pages each, pulling in deeper cuts, and descending into the madness of Evil Ernie. All essential, fans won’t want to miss this indispensable set. In addition to the long desired stories – at an unprecedented scale – mastermind Brian Pulido has gone deep into both his mind and archives to present behind the scenes history and newly generated recollections on the tales behind the terror.

The first book includes the industry-shattering debut miniseries, originally published by Eternity Comics and later subtitled Youth Gone Wild. Also within its pages are The Resurrection, Revenge, Straight to Hell, and the classic zero issue featuring a Greg Capullo cover. The action ramps up in the second volume with Destroyer, Evil Ernie #1/2, and the full ongoing series encompassing the arcs “Vampire Vengeance,” “Fear Itself,” “Christmas Evil,” and “Trauma.” Last but certainly not least, the thrilling trio closes out with Depraved, War of the Dead, Pieces of Me, Returns, Relentless, Alien Evil, fun crossover specials facing off against superheroes and movie monsters, a “What If” style book, and all five fabulous Smiley specials.

The set is available in three distinct editions, with every volume across them featuring unique cover artwork. The main hardcover set features the full 1,500 pages of terrifying action at the deluxe size, with black trim accents. The first upgrade is the signed set limited to only 666 sets, with a fitting Ernie green, and individually signed by Brian Pulido himself. Then for the ultimate collectors, the Super Deluxe set is also signed, with blazing red, page gilding, a ribbon bookmark, spot-laminated covers, and even more limited at just 333 sets available.

Stretch goals and surprise drops as the campaign progresses will determine even more exciting collectibles and enhancements. Early backers can stay tuned for updates!

Regardless of which of the three options fans choose, they all will slide perfectly into the available slipcase. This item is set to be exclusively available through Kickstarter to those who pledge for any of the full set reward tiers, and will complement future slipcases from the Chaos! library.

This Kickstarter is not just about restoring some classic comics, but reigniting a beloved brand and reconnecting fans who have been strewn across comics while the Chaos! energy has lain dormant. Alongside the omnibuses, a full slate of campaign exclusive add-ons are being unleashed!

Collectors can cop a range of exciting extras rooted in the visual identity and attitude of classic Chaos! and with direct oversight from Brian Pulido. Exclusive facsimile comic reprints, prints, posters, patches, coins, and apparel have jumped right out of the 1990s… only sharper, louder, and with modern production standards.

Of particular note is a brand new Evil Ernie masterpiece by Simon Bisley, the maverick artist who reinvented Lobo in the era when Chaos! reigned. This new artwork is available through a Youth Gone Wild #1 limited edition or a gorgeous 11 by 17 inch print.

The scope and depth of information, comics, and collectibles in this project – just the first of many – is deep and fans are encouraged to check out the entire Kickstarter campaign page to make sure they don’t miss anything exciting that is begging to be featured in their own Chaos! cave!

This Evil Ernie Kickstarter project marks the first in a series of co-publishing collaborations between Dynamite Entertainment and Coffin Comics. Fans can look forward to future projects featuring favorites like Lady Death (who makes her first appearance in Youth Gone Wild), Purgatori, Chastity, and more. The best way to keep up is by following and pledging to Ernie, so one doesn’t miss out on any of the great goodies in the works!

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Genetica – Issue #1

Publisher: N/A
Creative Team: (W) Finn Broockmann (A) R.D. Brown (I) R.D. Brown (C) Thaissa Diaz (L) Dezi Sienty
Launch Date: Funding Now – May 14 2026 4:33 PM EDT
Risk: Medium – A first campaign is always risky, they’re often late. But, the pages for the issue are “almost fully colored and lettered,” and they’ll be using Comix Wellspring and Comic Impressions for printing and Laguna Studios for shipping. So, things do sound lined up.

Genetica, a new independent comic series from writer Finn Broockmann and a professional comics production team, has launched on Kickstarter with a 40-page, full-color, perfect-bound debut issue blending dystopian sci-fi, militarized politics, and conspiracy-driven action.

Set in a neon-drenched near future, Genetica follows Fox, a young genetically modified ex-soldier known as a Spliced, whose search for the figure haunting his past pulls him into a shadow war tied to a covert program capable of reshaping human beings into living weapons.

The project launched on Kickstarter on April 14 and reached roughly 25% funding in its first three days, drawing 60+ backers and early support for its premium print format and variant editions.

The creative team includes artist R.D. Brown (Youngblood, Darkness, Black Badge), colorist Thaíssa Diaz (Top Cow and multiple independent publishers), and letterer Dezi Sienty, whose credits include DC Comics, Heavy Metal Magazine, IDW, Kodansha, and more.

Campaign editions include a standard cover, a Kickstarter-exclusive cover limited to a single print run, and a deluxe black-and-white edition featuring 10 bonus pages of black-and-white artwork. A limited original art tier is also available.

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The Boys 20th Anniversary Graphic Novel Editions

Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Creative Team: (w) Garth Ennis (a) Darick Robertson
Launch Date: Currently Funding – ends May 20 2026 9:00 PM EDT
Risk: Low – Dynamite has run previous campaigns and delivered

Fans of The Boys can celebrate two terrific decades of supes-smearing with a brand new set of complete paperback omnibuses celebrating the anniversary. With the fifth and final season of the flagship show on Amazon’s Prime Video airing now, it’s the perfect time to grab the revered original comics and add them to your shelf and binge list.

TheBoys made a huge splash when it debuted in 2006 by co-creators Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, quickly courting controversy. Dynamite was proud to take in the title and continue publishing it for nearly 100 issues, across the core title and multiple companion miniseries. Flash forward 20 years and the series has become canonized as one of the preeminent deconstructions and satires of the superhero genre. With the smash-hit show developed by Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and starring fan-favorites Karl Urban, Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Jensen Ackles, and so many more, a whole new legion of fans have continued to get to know this riotous world and beloved characters.

The perfect way to celebrate that legacy is re-presenting this set of six scintillating tomes, formatted as handy, chunky paperback feasts for the eyes. With newly designed packaging marking the anniversary, each volume is jam packed with the most twisted superhero story ever published!

On the Kickstarter, each volume is available separately, double-signed by both Ennis and Robertson, and both offerings are available as a complete set. Fans who go for the full set, signed or not, get an extra bonus! What could be better than nabbing all six volumes of the 20th Anniversary The Boys Omnibuses? How about getting a free The Boys #1 Holofoil variant. This special collectible comic would normally be valued at $100.

In addition to the omnibuses, collectors can scope out a new mystery blind bag offering for The Boys. Each bag contains three separate limited edition variants of key issues from the series. Unique variants never before offered, featuring premium enhancements like virgins, foil, and more can be found within these thrilling bags.

Ultra-rare collectible metal editions of key issues The Boys #1 and #3 are also being offered.

Fan-favorite artist Ken Haeser is also ready with his ink-slinging abilities to illustrate sketch covers of main characters of The Boys for the original art collections of fans looking for something special and one-of-one!

This campaign is set to run for a limited time, just over a month coinciding with the release of The Boys Season 5. So fans should pledge now, whether they want this can’t-miss deal on these special edition omnibuses, ultra-rare comic book collectibles or all the other awesome options!

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Calico: Unwanted Men

Publisher: Sigma Comics
Creative Team: (w) H.H. German (a) Renato Pinto, Mithun Roy
Launch Date: Launching Soon – May 1
Risk: Low – Sigma Comics has run previous campaigns and delivered

A vigilante called “PIG BATH” is killing cops all across NYC. CALICO doesn’t care. His war is STRICTLY against Animal Cruelty. For now.

Sigma Comics has announced the introduction of its new,
antihero comic book character, PIG BATH. The new character is the main antagonist in Sigma Comics’ upcoming trade paperback, entitled CALICO: Unwanted Men. The new character shares some similarities with Sigma Comics’ flagship character, CALICO, however, there are notable differences.

CALICO: Unwanted Men will be Sigma Comics’ third trade paperback, following CALICO: Street Math and CALICO: Morality Play, will contain 176 pages, and is expected to launch May 1st on Kickstarter.

Sigma Comics is unique among comic book publishers in that every penny is dedicated to fighting animal cruelty. The publisher works strictly with charities that are vetted to ensure that their efforts go, overwhelmingly, to stated causes. As a result, Here Comes CALICO is a revolutionary title, and has quickly become the best-selling independent comic book series on the North American comic book convention circuit.

Those looking to get a head start on everyone else can pre-order CALICO: Unwanted Men on Kickstarter on May 1st.

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Silent Jenny

Publisher: Magnetic Press
Creative Team: Mathieu Bablet
Launch Date: Currently Funding – ends May 1 2026 8:00 PM EDT
Risk: Low – Magnetic Press has run numerous previous campaigns and delivered

A MASTERCLASS IN WORLD-BUILDING AND A BREATHTAKING VISION OF THE FUTURE FROM AN INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR! Oni Press and Magnetic Press – the Eisner Award-winning publisher celebrating prestige graphic novels from around the globe since 2013 – are proud to announce the Kickstarter campaign for SILENT JENNY, by internationally acclaimed comic author Mathieu Bablet (Shangri La, Carbon & Silicon). Fans can support the Kickstarter campaign now. 

SILENT JENNY explores a not-too-distant future, where climate change continues to ravage the planet, and the disappearance of insects has led to the end of pollination, rendering vast areas of land infertile. A survival dynamic has emerged—mobile cities called “monads” have formed, and people strive to help each other; each group with its own customs, traditions, and ways of life.

Jenny is a rather solitary researcher trying to restore the world as it once was. She seeks to recover bee DNA to clone and re-create pollinating insects. However, she will come to realize that this is impossible—the old world no longer exists, and a new one must be built. She will have to make peace with the notion that all things come to an end, no matter how much you may fight the inevitable..

Known for his intricate art and his imaginative world-building, artist and co-director of the renowned Label 619 studio Mathieu Bablet is one of the most thoughtful sci-fi creators working today. In CARBON & SILICON, he explores 300 years of humanity’s collapse from the perspective of two melancholy androids who witnessed the many changes that brought mankind to its knees. In SHIN ZERO, Bablet takes on the modern gig economy in a thrilling, humorous love letter to Kaiju and Super-sentai stories. SHANGRI-LA is a millennia-spanning epic of space exploration, evolution, and what it means to be human. And now the prolific creator is setting his sights on a more grounded tale of science, climate change, and corporate greed in SILENT JENNY. 

In addition to the deluxe hardcover edition of SILENT JENNY, the Kickstarter campaign features a limited boxed edition and an exclusive 24-page 6×9 CODEX ART BOOK, featuring a look at the world of SILENT JENNY.

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Runaway to the Stars

Publisher: Iron Circus
Creative Team: Jay Eaton
Launch Date: Currently Funding – ends May 15 2026 12:00 AM EDT
Risk: Low – Iron Circus has run numerous previous campaigns and delivered

Iron Circus has launched its latest campaign for RUNAWAY TO THE STARS, a hard sci-fi slice-of-life graphic novel from cartoonist Jay Eaton that will immerse readers in a universe at once intriguingly alien and painfully familiar. The main storyline follows Talita, a centaur aerospace engineer and cross-species foster kid, as she befriends a shipwrecked AI pirate named Bip who convinces Talita to help it escape the planet of Dirtball. Focused on communication, accommodation, and everyday life in co-species spaces, the intricate and meticulously built world of RUNAWAY TO THE STARS will travel to readers on this planet via Kickstarter this spring. Head to Kickstarter to support the the campaign.

Abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of the Nexus Jovia youth foster care facility in a cat carrier, centaur and aerospace engineer Talita has no idea where she came from. She’s spent the vast majority of her life around humans, has very little familiarity with her own species’ cultures, and has always had trouble connecting with anyone — other than sentient AI beings, that is. So when Talita discovers a damaged Centaur spaceship in the Ixion Recycling Plant’s salvage yard with a pirate AI onboard named Bip, she quickly becomes drawn into its plans to escape the planet of Dirtball. But her two human friends, Idrisah and Gillie, aren’t about to let her commit crimes on behalf of a shady AI… not without their help, of course! Because Bip, the pilot of the Runaway, is definitely not telling Talita everything about what happened to the ship’s now-deceased centaur crew, or what mission they might have been on. But despite Bip’s suspiciously shady past, the AI is a charmer and quickly gets the team on board to help. Now all they have to do is secretly repair the ship and get all the clearances needed to file a flight plan… Of course, they just can’t get caught doing it.

RUNAWAY TO THE STARS’ intricately-built primary story is supplemented with immersive appendices and overflowing with additional context. The campaign will also feature extras such as an exclusive bookplate and a discounted bundle of Iron Circus titles hand-picked by cartoonist Jay Eaton.

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Devil’s Due Presents: Mercy Sparx – 25th Anniversary Special

Publisher: Devil’s Due
Creative Team: Josh Blaylock, Chris Wahl, Renan Shody, and Sveta Shubina
Launch Date: Currently Funding – ends April 27 2026 11:55 AM EDT
Risk: Low – Devil’s Due has run numerous previous campaigns and delivered

Devil’s Due Presents: Mercy Sparx is a one-shot, commemorative re-release of the now classic ongoing series’ first issue. Coming in at 48 pages, this features upgraded editions of some of the classic covers, as well as brand new covers by Chris Wahl, Renan Shody, and Sveta Shubina!

Featuring the return of cover artists Sveta Shubina, Renan Shody, and the first ever Mecy Sparx cover from Tank Girl artist Chris Wahl! 

Devil’s Due Presents: Mercy Sparx is a one-shot, commemorative re-release of the now classic ongoing series’ first issue. 

Coming in at 48 pages, this features upgraded editions of some of the classic covers, as well as brand new covers by Chris Wahl, Renan Shody, and Sveta Shubina!

Devil’s Due was founded in 2001 by indie comic book creator Josh Blaylock, who would create Mercy Sparx four years later, eventually releasing her first appearance in 2008. Later in 2013, after Mercy had been away from comic book shelves for a few years, the first issue of Mercy’s ongoing series would debut to comic shops everywhere, firmly establishing Heaven’s devil-girl as a character that’s here to stay.

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Red Flower

Publisher: FairSquare Graphics
Creative Team: LOUI
Launch Date: Launching Soon
Risk: Low – FairSquare Graphics has run numerous previous campaigns and delivered

Red Flower, the African Manga Masterpiece is back!

AN EXPLORATION OF AFRICAN MYTHOS THROUGH THE EYES OF A YOUNG ASPIRING WARRIOR!

Out of print for too long, RED FLOWER is back, for the very first time on a crowdfunding platform, with not one but TWO volumes! 
A modern blend of manga and ancestral African tales, Red Flower is an action and adventure Shonen that will take you into the explosive encounter of two opposing cultures, one filled with animism and spirituality.

Story and Art by French-Ghanaian creator LOUI.