Welcome to our revamped “Crowdfunding Corner” rounding up some of the latest crowdfunding news. We’re going beyond just announcement projects, we’ll be tracking to make sure these projects get delivered as well as what we think the “risk” of backing them are.

We’ll be updating the format as we get a better handle of the needs of this sort of coverage, so stay tuned and check out the first round of projects!

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Threat Quotient

Publisher: Virtual Pulp Press
Creative Team: Henry Brown
Launch Date: Funding Now – ends May 28 2026 4:00 PM EDT
Risk: Medium – While a lot of it is done, a first crowdfunding campaign is always risky and often misses its projected delivery date.

In Threat Quotient, a gripping narrative unfolds as a global uprising challenges the autocratic puppet states of the existing world order. Amidst this turmoil, a cosmic quake rips open dimensional portals, introducing disoriented visitors who exacerbate the ultrahuman and dissident crisis. Heroes like Ramjet, a turbo-powered flying knight, the unstoppable Juggernaut, and the truth-revealing Phantom Raider rise to confront the chaos. As the Pentagon assembles their own ultrahuman team to quell the rebellion, both the Establishment and Rebel factions are convinced they are on the right side of history. With no room for compromise, they converge on a small country teetering on the brink of civil war, setting the stage for an epic superpowered showdown.

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Palomino Volume 6

Publisher: Dark Planet Comics
Creative Team: Stephan Franck
Launch Date: Funding Now – ends May 15 2026 2:59 AM EDT
Risk: Low – The publisher has run previous campaigns and delivered

Endings are hard, but noir endings are murder. Cartoonist and award-nominated animator, writer, and director Stephan Franck and his company Dark Planet Comics are finally cracking the case in PALOMINO Volume 6. The ambitious, Ringo Award-Nominated series chronicles the lost culture of Los Angeles’ country music clubs and throws readers into a pulse-pounding, decades-spanning mystery. The series deftly blends hard boiled noir and Western aesthetics to explore Los Angeles’ weird and forgotten history with an unforgettable cast of working musicians, TV actors, stuntmen, cops, hustlers, and broken souls.

A captivating neo-noir crime mystery, PALOMINO begins in 1981 Los Angeles, where readers meet EDDIE LANG, an old-school, hardboiled former Burbank PD detective juggling his 6-nights-a-week gig in the Palomino house band, his P.I. business, and his teenage daughter, Liz–who might even be more hardboiled than he is! Father and daughter share a killer sense of humor and an unbreakable bond, but tragedy looms large over their past. A brand new case that’s hitting a little too close to home upends their lives, sending them each down very dangerous paths. Ultimately, the unsolved mystery haunts LIz into adulthood. In 1995, she’s working as a reporter when a routine assignment opens old wounds and Liz embarks on one final odyssey,  where every secret will be revealed and all scores settled. To survive the night, Liz must confront the ghosts of her past and, maybe – just maybe – emerge on the other side reborn and free.