Kickstarter rocks because every so often an amazingly cool project comes along that Comics Forge can back, and today we decided to back the independent graphic novel Oceanverse. Unfortunately Mike Schwartz pushed his domain to point only to the Kickstarter project so you really can’t see the art work. But what might come as a surprise to Mike is that I am a reader of his comic strips online, and while annoyed to be hit up with a Kickstarter project when I really wanted to read the online comic book this morning, much to my happy surprise we get to help him out.
Good surprise, happy surprise yes because this will seriously help out an awesome web comic that I have been following for a while. It is always good to see someone doing something very cool with their work, and who knows, if it sells out he might just print a second run, the first run sounds like it is going to be very limited to 500.
If you want to support it – well the Kickstarter project is right here, and yeah, give him 20 or 50 or 200 bucks like we did. This will be an awesome project to support.
As he states, which we liberally ripped from his Kickstarter project, this is what the whole thing is about.
Gentleman adventurer Clayton Hemmings retires from his pulp hero lifestyle but can’t shake the lure of expedition. He assembles a new crew with diverse experiences and backgrounds, boards his submarine the Red Herring, and sets out for a tour of the Oceanverse, the undersea world of wonder and danger.
The crew accomplishes missions of both the small and grand scale. They rescue a colony of bottom-dwelling beings; they fend off swordfish and sea monsters; they scuffle with various unsavory characters. But along the way, each crew member experiences moments of bewilderment and growth. Pilot BR Cooper encounters a ghost WWII pilot and helps him recover his plane from a greedy sea-demon. Scientist Meg befriends a curious tentacled creature who proves to be a valuable companion. Archaeologist Ben travels through time and comes out worse for the wear. Their collective journeys transform them into a modest but powerful team, just in time to save London from the Fish Lord, the most terrifying threat yet.
Seriously this reminds me of the grand old pulp adventures like Tin-Tin, and what he has proposed really does sound interesting. I also like the idea that this will be a limited run of 500, and I like the idea that he is printing this in the USA rather than anywhere else. So worthy project, you have time and we will be following this one through, but the sooner he gets to 2,750 the earlier I can get my stuff, so what are you waiting for? Go do something good for someone this year and go support the project.
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