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Kickstarter Up The Ass – Monster Ninjas, Dead West, The Monarchy and The Threat

Bleeding Cool's new Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one that wasn't.  Each week he will point out some of the unique Kickstarter projects that wouldn't normally be published by the big comic book companies, but deserve your attention.  Shawn's current project Break the Walls: Stories Inspired by the Songs of the Pixies is also being funded through Kickstarter.

Kickstarter Up The Ass – Monster Ninjas, Dead West, The Monarchy and The ThreatProject: Monster Ninjas

Creator: Ryan Jacobson, Shane Nitzsche and Erik Korsgaard

Concept: Monster Ninjas is Bone meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as four ninjas (who also happen to be monsters) fight amongst each other and against the forces of evil, with hilarious and sometimes surprising results.

Fundraising for:Printing, incentives, shipping, and Kickstarter/Amazon payment fees.

Sweet Spot:Pledge $25 or more. Get an early delivery eBook plus a copy of Monster Ninjas, autographed by writer Ryan Jacobson, as soon as it becomes available.

Cool Zone:Pledge $299 or more. You get to MAKE A CAMEO in the comic.  That's right: your face will get drawn into at least one panel of the book.  We'll even write you a line of dialogue! Plus, you will get an eBook and 10 copies of the book to pass along to your friends.

Tipping Point:Watch his personal video talking about how he has been wanting to publish a comic book since he was a kid.

So far: $2,741 of $6500 with 13 days to go

Kickstarter Up The Ass – Monster Ninjas, Dead West, The Monarchy and The Threat Project: Dead West

>Creator: Carl Elvisand Claudio Muñoz

Concept: DEAD WESTis a 110-page color graphic novel by writer Carl Elvis and artist Claudio Muñoz.  The story takes place in 1876 in a small Black Hills gold rush town called Dead West that seems to be attracting the supernatural along with prospectors.  Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates an unstoppable Sheriff to protect and enforce the law.  But as danger grows, the Sheriff will need help from a Mummy who claims to be an ancient Egyptian King and a wily young Vampire that's looking for action!

Fundraising for:Printing, incentives, shipping, and Kickstarter/Amazon payment fees.

Sweet Spot:Pledge $25 or more. Graphic Novel & Digital Copy & Die Cut Stickers – a printed copy of the graphic novel plus a Digital PDF plus die cut stickers and your name in the thank you page.

Cool Zone: Pledge $75 or more. Badge – a limited metal Dead West badge plus an exclusive tee shirt plus a singed copy of the printed graphic novel by Carl Elvis plus a Digital PDF plus die cut stickers and your name in the thank you page.

Tipping Point: Wild West Frankenstein monsters riding werewolves.  'Nuff said.

So far: $741 of $12,000 with 10 days to go

Project: The Monarchy

Creator: Tyler Kirkham, Mandy McMurray, and M. Oracle

Concept: Far beneath the mundane reality of our everyday lives, hidden within the echoes of our most famous legends, exists a world shrouded in secrecy. A world of magic and myth, where an ancient order of sorcerers act as guardians, protecting the world from the forces that seek to destroy life as we know it.

They are the Monarchy.

Passed down through a mysterious guild, they are magical warriors that carry within them the stolen Seven Powers of Creation and through them, hold back the tide of evil led by an equally powerful order of dark sorcerers called Warlocks. An evil that has threatened mankind for generations.

Unfortunately, only one Monarch now remains. In a desperate act of heroism, the last of the Monarchy, uses his last breath to pass on a mystical legacy to his unsuspecting grandson, initiating him into a world of darkness with a trial by fire; survive and save the world, or die and let the powers of darkness overtake it.

Now, young Andreas must embrace his power or be destroyed by the evil Cabal that hunts him. With the help of a renegade warrior-guardianess, they must face his grandfather's murderer, her past, and his destiny, or lose the battle against evil for all time.

Fundraising for: Contributions will go to editing, lettering, pre-press, pre-production, website development, printing, and shipping.

Sweet Spot: Pledge $30 or more. Get the pdf download as well as a copy of the printed graphic novel.  Your name printed in the back of the book as a thank you from us for your contribution.

Cool Zone: Pledge $700 or more Limited Reward (9 of 10 remaining). Get a pdf download of the entire first book, full printed book signed by Tyler Kirkham, color and pencil prints signed, have a personal image of you painted by The Monarchy artist in his style as any type of character you choose! Or he will paint a cover or pinup for your personal book/project! Receive a high rez file for you to print as you like!  Have a personal credit and special thank you in the high contributors list.

Tipping Point: The Matrix meets Legend (the 1985 Tom Cruise film).  Yeah, I went there.

So far: $7387 of $20,000 with 8 days to go

Kickstarter Up The Ass – Monster Ninjas, Dead West, The Monarchy and The ThreatProject: The Threat

Creator: Mark Schmidt

Concept: It's about politics, human nature and who decides what a hero is.  Oh, and everyone once in a while we throw in a good old fashioned super hero ass kicking

You see the future we've built is a rather bleak for all but the 1%. They get to live in high rise buildings away from the trash, pollution, and everyday street crime that happens to the rest of us. The governments of the world have fell in economic disarray, leading to corporations taking over. Not all of them are as gentle a handed as you'd hope.

So we get to see Houston, a sprawling metropolis of industry, or at least that's the way it seems.  If you lift the carpet, however, it's just as dirty as you'd expect.

That's the overall world

More specifically, though, it's about a group of young men and women who only want to protect each other, but in doing so, step on the wrong toes and figure out that there is more to life than just sitting back and watching the world go by.

Fundraising for: The funds will cover the artist and colorist, anything beyond that will go towards print costs, advertising, and any other costs to promote the book (tables at cons).

Sweet Spot: Pledge $10 or more. Digital copies as above and a printed copy in Black and White and a Color copy that you can keep for your collection.

Cool Zone: Pledge $200 or more. Your likeness for a single character in a later issue of the arc. This character will die in the series and is not a continuing character. If we are unable to deliver this reward for any reason this pledge will be returned.

Tipping Point: Watch the video talking about the goal and premise of the comic book series.

So far: $237 of $3000 with 11 days to go


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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