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Crowdfunding Corner: The Objectivist, Tales of Asunda Tome + New Untamed Comic & D&D 5e Module!

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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!

The Objectivist

THE OBJECTIVIST

Publisher: N/A
Creative Team: (w) Curt Pires (a) Alex Diotto, Luca Casalanguida (c) Mark Dale (l) Micah Myers (ca) Jae Lee
Launch Date: Launching soon
Risk: Medium – With the first crowdfunding campaign, it’s always worth some caution, there’s a good chance it’ll likely miss its expected release (a common issue with first campaigns)

Curt Pires, the comics trailblazer behind Galactic, Lost Fantasy, and countless other celebrarted works has announced the Kickstarter campaign for The Objectivist, a 140-page original graphic novel with art from acclaimed artists Alex Diotto (Lost Fantasy, Indigo Children) and Luca Casalanguida (Lost Fantasy), colors from Mark Dale, and lettering from Micah Myers.The project features haunting covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Jae Lee.

The Objectivist follows an isolated vigilante whose grip on sanity unravels as he mounts a one-man war against corruption. His journey quickly spirals into moral freefall when the foundations of truth that have fueled his blood-splattered crusade begin to crumble. The resulting narrative sucker punch weaves thematic and visual threads ranging from The Question, Sin City, and Batman: Year One to Steve Ditko’s Mr. A.

Fans can sign up for The Objectivist’s mailing list at the link below to receive updates when the project will launch. The graphic novel will be released in a physical hardcover as well as digitally on the digital comics and manga hub, Neon Ichiban, with detailed reward tiers to be announced closer to the Kickstarter launch. 

Tales of Asunda Tome + New Untamed Comic & D&D 5e Module!

Tales of Asunda Oversized Tome Cover

Publisher: Stranger Comics
Creative Team: (w) Sebastian A. Jones, Justin Estrada (a) Alex Paterson (c) Blond (l) Joshua Cozine
Launch Date: Currently funding – ends April 20 2026 1:01 PM EDT
Risk: Low – The publisher has run previous crowdfunding campaigns and they’ve been delivered.

THIS KICKSTARTER HAS TWO MAIN FEATURES

TALES OF ASUNDA TOME 1 – OUR FIRST OMNIBUS!
TALES is an anthology series, with each issue being a one-shot story filling in the gaps between the various titles. Some TALES return favorite heroes like Niobe or Dusu. Others introduce new characters who may have a role to play in the future. 

Known for our Deluxe Oversized Hardcovers, this is our first Omnibus. A 400-page Graphic Novel that collects TALES Volumes 1 and 2 and the 2009 #0 issue. It’s packed with 9 comics, art galleries, prose, songs, and game material for D&D 5e and Pathfinder 1e! The Kickstarter edition has Foil Inlay Titles and a wraparound dust jacket with a poster on the back!

THE UNTAMED: WISHING WELL – AN OVERSIZED COMIC & RPG MODULE IN ONE!
This is a prequel one-shot comic to the series that launched Stranger Comics, and it stars the Stranger and Dura! It’s also the first issue in Tales of Asunda Volume 3.

After reading the comic you can enter Asunda as the oversized issue is paired with our WISHING WELL D&D 5e MODULE! Roll up a character and venture into the depths below the Town of Oasis!

Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls is a hell of a true story and American history

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Born a slave but destined for greatness, Robert Smalls became a Captain in the Union Navy by stealing a Confederate ship. Decades later, retired Congressman Robert Smalls sits down with his grandson to tell the story of his life. Based on historical events.

Story: Rob Edwards
Art: Sean Damien Hill, Alex Paterson
Layout Artist: Darrell May
Colorists: Mauro Salgado, Blond
Letterer: Joshua Cozine

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Stranger Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Review: Is’Nana: The Were-Spider Vol. 1

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Growing up, reading comics back home n Queens, New York, I never quite caught on to Spider-Man. I know that may be a controversial statement, considering how many Spidey fans there are out there, but his stories never interested me and no, this not a diatribe against Spider-Man, as his canon amongst the other Marvel superheroes is prolific and for good reason. His story about growing up in Queens, New York, saving civilians, never caught fire with me, as I never felt the angst and struggle that Peter Parker went through. Then when I found out that the origins of Spider-Man, not only came from Stan Lee’s imagination but also from African folklore.

As the story of Anansi, well known to only through West Africa but also throughout the Caribbean, as he is the spirit of all knowledge and stories. I remember my grandfather telling me the story when I was 7 when I lived in Trinidad. Growing up reading comic books, I read about Thor and his brother Loki, and their father, Odin, and always thought why were stories about people who looked like me never like this. Enter writer Greg Anderson-Elysee, who from what I just read, probably thought, and wished the same exact thing.

Enter, Is’Nana: The Were-Spider, which starts off with the reader meeting Roger Stine, a lonely old man, whose children do not have time for him, as he suffers nightmares of a leopard chasing him. Little does he know, supernatural forces are at play, as a dark force is haunting him, it being another figure from African folklore, Osebo the Leopard, who not only haunts him but takes over Roger’s body. Is’Nana just so happens to be on the hunt for him, at which point, Is’Nana with the help of his father, Anansi, fights Osebo to save Roger’s life. The story ends with Is’Nana defeating Osebo and becoming friends with Roger and as a bonus the reader gets introduced to Is ‘Nana’s journey form his world to ours as well as why his father, Anansi was brought here as well.

Overall, a strong introduction to a character and a world that I want to know more about and one which is more relatable than Peter Parker’s. The story by Greg Anderson-Elysee, by at first glance may seem like one we have heard before, but once the reader digs in, is an even denser and intricate story and one whose origins have deeper roots than one would imagine. The art by Walter Ostlie, Lee Milewski, Walt Msonza Barna, and Joshua Cozine, is beautiful and reminds me of the work Frank Miller did on Ronin. Altogether, a strong first book by this team, and a story that I can’t wait to see what happens next.

Story: Greg Anderson-Elysee
Art: Walter Ostlie, Lee Milewski, Walt Msonza Barna and Joshua Cozine
Story:10 Art:10 Overall:10 Recommendation:Buy

Review: Overrun #1 – 4

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Overrun1Overrun is The Matrix meets The Walking Dead. Written by Andi Ewington and Matt Woodley, with art by Paul Green and letters by Troy Peteri and Joshua Cozine. This new four issue miniseries takes us deep inside the virtual world hiding behind our laptops and tablets. It’s a virtual reality populated by atavistic human-like characters, speaking in a distinctive Orwellian IT language, of different computer file tribal groups (.xls, .jpeg, .mp4, .zip, spam, .mpeg, .txt, .doc, etc…). All the well-known characters, past and present, from the computer and gaming world are parodied within its pages. There’s Detectives Norton & McAfee, a French Mario, a Pokémon like super companion, Sarge from Call of Duty or Medal of Honor (you pick), and many more you will recognize.

With dwindling disk space, the Illuminati-like Hierarchy plots to wipe the slate clean, using viral corrupting zombies to free up memory to rewrite the world’s code. Scrolling bar buddies serendipitously join together to save their world from the conspiracists’ evil plans. Overrun3The fast-paced story is non-stop action, helped along by a power-up pill popping strong man, video game shogun ninja, mysterious heroine, and others; who together battle CPU henchmen to put an end to the evil scheme. With no fear of archival or uninstallation, our heroes fight the Hierarchy to the fateful end.

Paul Green’s cartoony manga style art, rendered in bright colors, with pubescent characters, exaggerated body types, and plenty of big guns, flits across effortlessly from panel to panel. The gamer audience will eat it up.

When all is said and done, and the reading fun is over, head out to the Scroll Bar for a drink. Just make sure you bring enough kilobytes to pay the tab, and while you’re there, pray to the User for the story to continue in a yet to be announced issue five.

I’d give it a ten, but I had to take some points away. I was a bit sore there was no death by .ppt.

Story: Andi Ewington and Matt Woodley Art: Paul Green
 Letters: Troy Peteri and Joshua Cozine
Story: 9 Art: 9 Overall: 9 Recommendation: Buy

Andi Ewington provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Preview: Spring-Heeled Jack #4

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SPRING-HEELED JACK #4

(W) TONY DEANS
(A) MARTHA LAVERICK, JOSHUA COZINE
$1.99 DIGITAL ONLY
YOUNG ADULT
HORROR

Having seemingly gained the upper hand over Spring-Heeled Jack, Doyle and Bell decide to confront him in his lair, deep under the streets of London. However our duo will find that they may have just made another mistake. One that might be their last. Does our duo have what it takes to stop The Terror of London once and for all? Find out in this thrilling conclusion to the series.

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