Surveys are fixed! Please double-check your add-ons.
5 months ago
– Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 04:26:44 PM
I've been told the Backerkit devs have fixed everyone's surveys which required removing all existing add-ons and re-importing them from Kickstarter. Unfortunately this means if you have add-ons in your pledge and had already finished your survey you will need to go back and make sure your order is correct. Our apologies again for this glitch, but hopefully it's smooth sailing from here and we should be able to get all our surveys cleared before the books arrive in our warehouse in a couple weeks.
Please contact [email protected] if there are any problems with your pledge going forward, or if you need us to re-send your survey link. If you got a free slipcase through one of our promotions, don't worry, it'll be added to your pledge manually.
As always, we couldn't do any of this without you. Thank you.
-Team Deathray: An army of your weirdest friends.
Surveys with add-ons will have to wait until Monday :(
5 months ago
– Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 05:22:58 PM
I just spoke to Backerkit and unfortunately the system did not import any of the add-ons from Backerkit, and while they've apologized profusely we have a holiday in the US tomorrow and most offices are closed for the week, so they've asked us to send out an update to tell people who've pledged with add-ons to wait until they've fixed it on Monday to fill out your surveys.
This is obviously not what we hoped for, and if you've already filled yours out, we apologize (and thank you!) but you'll have to go back and finalize the survey when they've sorted the glitch out.
We appreciate you, and if we could fix it on our end or invite you all to our BBQ tomorrow we would, and you wouldn't even have to bring a side dish.
WE WILL SEND OUT A NEW UPDATE WHEN THE PROBLEM IS FIXED. Just so you don't have to guess when it's done, we'll let you know. Thanks again, and apologies, and did we tell you you look great today? Wow. Did you do something different with your hair?
In the meantime I hope all of you have an excellent week and weekend, and we'll be in touch.
-Iván and Team Deathray
SURVEYS ARE OUT! (+ some surveys have issues)
5 months ago
– Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 12:51:00 PM
Hi there, we sent out the surveys this afternoon and we're hearing back that some of the mixed orders seem to have issues in the import from backerkit. We're waiting to hear back from Backerkit with a solution, but rest assured all of your add-ons will be fixed before the books start to ship. Please feel free to email us with any specifics on your particular order, we can fix them manually if need be.
Sorry about the glitch, and thanks for your patience.
Also: we're hopefully gonna announce our next project THIS MONTH, so keep an eye out :)
THE BOOKS ARE PRINTED!! Next steps: ( keep an eye out for Backerkit surveys)
6 months ago
– Sat, Jun 01, 2024 at 08:04:36 AM
We got word today that the books are done, unfortunately the printer forgot to take footage of the press, which is a bummer, since we love process stuff, but anyway the books should be shipping out to us next week sometime, and will take a couple weeks to get here from overseas, but it's all moving fast and we're all pretty excited over here.
I want to emphasize this step because this caused some confusion last time: getting your books out to you (even the digital ones) requires a survey to be filled out. Those surveys come from a different service, called BACKERKIT, so please keep an eye out for those emails. We got close to 100% of the books out on volume 1, but the ones that didn't make it are because we are still waiting on an address to send them to.
IMPORTANT: If you used apple's "hide my email" sign in, unfortunately those relay services can't receive mail outside of their intended login site (in this case kickstarter), so we will need to get a real email address into the backerkit system to be able to finalize your order.
We don't share, or sell, or do anything creepy with your personal info, partially because we don't actually know how, we are a very particular kind of nerd and only know how to make comics. (And we've gotten pretty good at packing shipping boxes, if we're listing accolades.)
We're going to start the survey process soon, AND we're going to announce our next book soon, so please stick around and thank you so much every one of you for the thousandth time, for making our weird little section of your bookshelf possible.
UPDATE: print production has begun on TRS volume 2
6 months ago
– Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:18:58 AM
Much like the first volume I'll post production stills/video as soon as I have them, but our printer has started production and we're hoping to ship the books early this summer.
The way we handled our digital files last time required them to be sent out pretty late in the game, so we're spending some time today to figure out a new system to get the book out digitally to everyone in the next week.
We're also working on our 2 upcoming campaigns (1 of them launching pretty pretty soon) and finalizing a website, hellodeathray dot com, where you can sign up for early access (and exclusives) on the next round of stuff. We're a very small crew, but it's all moving quickly, and this summer is gonna be a big one for Deathray.
In the meantime, I'm headed back to the real original Rome next week for the ARF! festival, and I'll have copies of volume 1 and assorted other goodies, and will be looking over pages from our 3rd book with our artist who'll also be there (WHO COULD IT BE?!?)
Making comics is great. Thanks for keeping our crazy dreams afloat.
More soon,
-i
