Crowdfunding Corner: Midnight Western Theatre Compendium, You Must Be This Tall To Ride #1
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!
Midnight Western Theatre Compendium TPB
Publisher: N/A
Creative Team: (w) Louis Southard (a) David Hahn, Butch K. Mapa (c) Ryan Cody, Sean Peacock (l) Buddy Beaudoin (ca) Julianne Griepp
Launch Date: Launching soon
Risk: Low – The series is done and the team has run previous campaigns and delivered them on time.
In a deadly wild west, tall tales and nervous whispers run rampant of Ortensia Thomas AKA the Woman in Black! A mysterious gunslinger on an impossible mission against the forces of evil. With otherworldly—or all too human—threats finding themselves at odds with this antihero for the ages, this is a bloody story of a serious woman with a serious job to do. Thankfully, she doesn’t work alone…
Meet—or revisit!—the colorful cast of Alexander Wortham the Reluctant Vampire, Sarah Bishop the Wild West Witch, Governor Jamie Corson, Plague Doctor, Samual the Prophet, the Lone Spirit, Ata’halne, Red Tom, the Fireman, and the widely beloved Horse.
Originally published by Scout Comics and Entertainment from 2021-2023, Midnight Western Theatre is resurrected once more with this ambitious compendium Kickstarter. With over 300+ pages of comics content, this epic tome seeks to collect Midnight Western Theatre Vol. 1 (Issues 1-5), Midnight Western Theatre Vol. 2: Witch Trial (Issues 1-5), variant cover art, original series concept art, Ortensia cosplay photoshoot, behind-the-scenes making of, exclusive TV show adaptation material, and a whole lot more rooting-tooting cowboy shooting!
Saddle up your horse and get ready for the weird west comic of your dreams by writer Louis Southard (Flash Gordon / X-O Manowar), artist David Hahn (Batman ‘66 / Impossible Jones), artist Butch K. Mapa (Speed Racer / Archie Horror), colorist Ryan Cody (Justice League vs. Legion of Super-Heroes), colorist Sean Peacock (Love Honey / Godzilla Monsterpiece Theatre), letterer Buddy Beaudoin (Green Arrow / Flash), and cover artist Julianne Griepp (Laugh Riot / Comics Are Dying: The Comic).
This book is 100% done, we only need YOUR help to print and ship! If you like Jonah Hex, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Westworld, romantasy fiction, and a lot of other cool stuff, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for!
You Must Be This Tall To Ride #1
Publisher: N/A
Creative Team: (w) John McGuire (a) Ivan Rehzi (c) Ivan Rehzi (l) Tanner Eddleman
Launch Date: Launched – ends on April 10 2026 11:09 AM
Risk: Low – previous campaigns have been run and based on updates and comments delivered close to on time.
When your family inherits an amusement park from a long-missing Uncle, it turns a potentially boring summer vacation into what could be the greatest summer of all time!
However, when a game of Hide and Seek finds their youngest cousin lost in a huge run down estate, it is suddenly up to the rest of the kids to find him before their parents get home.
But what do you do if there is more to this place than you could ever imagine?
What if the various worlds and rides are portals to something else?
What if they are doorways to other realms?
How far would you go for Family?
