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Summit Comics brings the villain-centered series Grymstone to Kickstarter

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Some toys were never meant to be played with. Summit Comics is bringing Grymstone: Soil & Ash to Kickstarter, a five-part surreal folk-horror series written, colored, and lettered by Scott Alan Gregory, with art by Thiago Motta and variant covers from Pete Collins, Juan Angel, and Damian Connelly. The project earned Gregory a contract as the winner of the 2025 Summit Comics Writer Talent Search and now marks the publisher’s first villain-centered series.

A seven-inch-tall ’80s action figure possessed by the ancient spirit of a wicked woodland entity binds three troubled families across three different eras. As GrymStone’s influence takes shape, a Chicago man seeks help for his brother, who believes the talking action figure hidden in his basement is compelling him to commit violent acts.

GrymStone: Soil & Ash draws from the unsettling atmosphere of ’90s Vertigo horror to explore mental illness, inherited damage, and the evil that takes root beneath it all through the surreal, dangerous, and tragicomic storytelling that defined the era’s alternative comics landscape.

Kickstarter backers can choose from rewards including signed scripts, original sketch cards and covers, and the opportunity to appear in the comic in a featured speaking role. A limited number of backers can also become the star of a customized two-page GrymStone story created for the Summit Comics Substack.

GrymStone: Soil & Ash is now live and runs through October 8, 2026.

Comic book cover for 'Grymstone: Soil & Ash' featuring stylized characters, abstract backgrounds with trees and leaves, and a vintage car.
Cover of the comic book 'Grymstone: Soil & Ash' featuring a somber, textured graphic with dark colors and an abstract depiction of a figure. The title and publisher logo are prominently displayed.
Action figure of Grymstone, an earth elemental character, depicted with a muscular build and rocky texture. The figure displays a blue and red costume with a triangular emblem. The packaging features the title 'GRYMSTONE' and includes additional hands and a head sculpt. Background is colorful with textured rock elements.
Cover art for the comic 'Grymstone: Soil & Ash' featuring a dark, brooding figure with glowing red eyes and a rugged, stone-like face.

Summit Comics Launches a Small Press Superhero Universe

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Summit Comics is a new comics collective set to launch a new shared comics universe after the first of the year. It features characters new and old and over a dozen creatives who’ve collectively raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. Summit will tell tales in a single shared world, allowing characters and storylines to jump over from one creator-owned title to the next.

At the root of it all will be Summit: Pinnacle, an annual anthology featuring short stories from all corners of the Summit Universe. Those shorts will then continue on in Summit Jump, a bi-monthly release inspired by weekly shōnen manga titles. Select characters will then receive their own limited series.

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The Summit Universe will then carry over into standalone titles such as Travis Gibb’s Upheaval, and CJ Hudson’s Granite.

Summit’s launch roster of creatives includes Travis Gibb (Upheaval, Cthulhu Invades), CJ Hudson (Granite, Interstellar Dust), Devin Arscott (Noir, Magni the Mighty), Adam Barnhardt (SH*TSHOW, Moonspawn), Marcus Jimenez (Techoknights, Knight From Hell), Eric Palicki (Guardians of Infinity, Black’s Myth), Brayden Viloria (Haven), J. Michael Miller (Kid Cretaceous, The Healer’s Blade), Nate Schachter (The CloakRoom), Cam Kerkau (Gilgamesh), Daniel Kalban (American Dreams, Knightwrath), Brian Wolf (Upheaval), Benjamin Morse (We Are Scarlet Twilight), Ignacio di Meglio, Pete Collins, Sebastian Piccione, and letterer extraordinaire Jerome Gagnon.

Summit’s character rosters and publishing schedule will be available in the coming weeks. The best way to find out the latest news and updates regarding this exciting new publisher is to sign-up for the Summit Comics newsletter at https://readsumm.it, and by following the social media accounts listed at https://readsumm.it/follow.