From the bottom of space-Caesar’s bosom we THANK YOU!
7 months ago
– Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 09:21:48 AM
Just a brief note to thank you again for helping us build our weird Roman spaceship.
We did almost double what the first volume did, which I don’t say to brag but to acknowledge the progress. Our primary goal is to build an audience, outside of the usual channels. We want to make books you want to READ, not put in a vault. It’s a long road and we hope you stick around.
We’ll be sending out the digital books very soon to everyone who bought one (anyone who bought the physical version will get one too) and will get started on the long road to fulfillment.
For now we’re just absolutely floored by the support. Even from that one weirdo. You know who I mean.
THANK YOU! Stay Tuned.
The kindness of (mostly) strangers in our final week
7 months ago
– Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:23:54 AM
Today there's a week left of this campaign, our 2nd on a book we worked on for years, that has become tangible through the kindness of (mostly) strangers (hi!) who we could not be more grateful for. We reached 15 countries with volume 1. Probably more with this one. In a world where it's unreasonably hard to put food on your plate through our stories, in comics especially, you folks have made both of these campaigns successful beyond our imaginations.
We're getting all the ins and outs of fulfillment ironed out so we can get everything out as fast as is humanly possible, including sending out ALL the digital rewards as soon as our billing is processed. We want people to read this, more than any other goal. That's the important thing, especially those of you sitting on the cliffhanger of volume 1.
In the meantime, please spread the word. This is a labor of love, we have no media company or anybody else holding us up. We're a handful of people who love this medium and took a lot of (arguably ill-advised) risks to do this instead of whatever normal reasonable people do to keep the lights on. The 2nd book is gorgeous, and I hope it makes you a tiny bit as happy to hold it as it made us to give it form.
Sorry for gushing. Thank you for being here.
-Iván, V, Tom, Aditya, Greg and the legions of outer space centurions
250% FUNDED! BIRTHDAY STRETCH GOAL! (New items unlocked)
7 months ago
– Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:21:19 AM
In honor of our writer Iván Brandon's birthday (!!) and reaching our 3rd stretch goal of 250% (!!!) we've unlocked a couple new options.
You can now pledge to receive:
ALL The volume 2 covers.
and/or
ALL The Volume 1 AND Volume 2 covers
and/or
a new EXTREMELY limited bundle:
The Roman Stars volume 2 Hardcover PLUS
Drifter volumes 1-4 Trade Paperbacks (over 500 pages of story)
Black Cloud volumes 1-2 Trade Paperbacks
VS Trade Paperback
ALL SIGNED
We've got 2 weeks left and we want to end strong, thank you again for riding with us.
200% FUNDED! new stretch goal unlocked
7 months ago
– Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:02:46 AM
We're absolutely floored by this campaign. We promised a stretch goal at 20k so we've added a heavily discounted print set, 1 cover from each of our cover artists. Later today we'll also be adding some cool limited bundles that you can add to your order (or upgrade to).
We legitimately can't thank you enough for riding with us on this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
16K! New Stretch Goal unlocked!
8 months ago
– Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 06:56:00 AM
We were trying for a 15,000 unlock but you folks were active while team Deathray was asleep so it ended up being a $16,000 stretch goal.
YOU HAVE UNLOCKED a painted cover by the brilliant NIC KLEIN! (artist of The Incredible Hulk and Thor for Marvel and Drifter and Viking with The Roman Stars writer Iván Brandon.)
This cover is available as a solo pledge, an add-on or an upgrade or as a bundle with our Cleopatra volume 1 variant by Eric Canete.
We are completely over the (Roman) moon with this campaign, thank you all so much, it honestly means more than we can say.
If we make it to 20,000 there’ll be a new stretch goal unlocked.
THANK YOU! Here's the new cover:
