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The Terminator 40th Anniversary Graphic Novel Collections!
***The Terminator Hardcovers & Metals are OVERSIZED!!! The Future is NOW. 😎🤖 For the first time we collect the Dark Horse The Terminator comics & the bonus Burning Earth series from Now Comics in chronological reading order!
KTW: Runa #1
An LGBTQ+ fantasy comic book series following two witches as they become embroiled in a war on their kind.
Tom Holland's Fright Night Collection & Special Limited Edition Comics
Legendary horror director Tom Holland delivers a new tale based on the original Fright Night Novelization! This comic tale picks up immediately following the classic 1985 film and takes Charley, Amy, Evil Ed, and Peter Vincent into a terrifying future!
When I Was Young... (An LGBTQIA+ Charity Comic Anthology)
A 100+ page comic anthology featuring short stories of inspiration, advice, and triumph. All profits will be donated to The Trevor Project to benefit LGBTQIA+ youth.
Tandem Tryst: Positive Feedback & Leatherbound
Help fund print editions of slutty superpowered romp Positive Feedback and later-life coming out vignette Leatherbound, both previously only available digitally to Filthy Figments subscribers.
Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries (Reprint)
This edition of the Seventy Maxims for Maximally Effective Mercenaries is an in-world artifact containing handwritten notes from Karl, Kaff, Schlock, and Murtaugh along with all the maxims. hardback 80 pages.
Alicia Carter & Robot #1-3
Alicia Carter & Robot has sold more than 10,000 copies and is read in over 25 countries! Join the adventure as you follow this notorious space thief and her daring exploits as she evades bounty hunters and assassins at every turn!
The Cassegrain Collection - four graphic novels by Didier Cassegrain
Twisty murder mysteries, mind-bending sci-fi, and mythical fantasy graphic novels by the incomparable and Eisner-nominated illustrator Didier Cassegrain!
Indiginerds: Tales From Modern Indigenous Life
Indiginerds collects work from over a dozen Indigenous artists and writers! From gaming to social media, pirateradio to garagebands, Star Trek to D&D, all the way to missed connections and drama at the pow-wow, Indigenous culture is growing and vibrant!
Magnetic-Con'23 Annual Book and VIP Loot Box
Can't make it to SDCC? Our "virtual convention booth" is filled with insanely discounted books, tabletop games, and collectibles, plus our NEW 2023 Annual Book and VIP LOOT BOX!
Failure to Launch
Failure to Launch is a light-hearted, non-fiction tour of (so far!) unrealized technological and societal advances promised in years past, but which never came to be. What could have been, but wasn't.
Canceled II #1
Hit comic Canceled is back and Larry has someone new to play with! Join us for this new installment in the Canceled universe set against the backdrop of Y2K as our favorite clown influences his newest killer apprentice.
On Its Way
Alicia Carter & Robot #1-3
Alicia Carter & Robot has sold more than 10,000 copies and is read in over 25 countries! Join the adventure as you follow this notorious space thief and her daring exploits as she evades bounty hunters and assassins at every turn!
Indiginerds: Tales From Modern Indigenous Life
Indiginerds collects work from over a dozen Indigenous artists and writers! From gaming to social media, pirateradio to garagebands, Star Trek to D&D, all the way to missed connections and drama at the pow-wow, Indigenous culture is growing and vibrant!
Tom Holland's Fright Night Collection & Special Limited Edition Comics
Legendary horror director Tom Holland delivers a new tale based on the original Fright Night Novelization! This comic tale picks up immediately following the classic 1985 film and takes Charley, Amy, Evil Ed, and Peter Vincent into a terrifying future!
Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries (Reprint)
This edition of the Seventy Maxims for Maximally Effective Mercenaries is an in-world artifact containing handwritten notes from Karl, Kaff, Schlock, and Murtaugh along with all the maxims. hardback 80 pages.
The Terminator 40th Anniversary Graphic Novel Collections!
***The Terminator Hardcovers & Metals are OVERSIZED!!! The Future is NOW. 😎🤖 For the first time we collect the Dark Horse The Terminator comics & the bonus Burning Earth series from Now Comics in chronological reading order!
Highlights
Project Update: Big News - The Terminator Slipcases Now Available As Add-Ons!
We have been working very hard to come up with a solution to one of the big requests backers have had. Many buyers of The Terminator Hardcover sets have expressed that they want an option for buying the slipcase to house their three volume sets. This presented a challenge in finding a manufacturer that could supply the slipcases at a price that was palatable to add to orders. We were really struggling with multiple manufacturers coming in at upwards of $60 to supply these.Â
Though it took a while longer, we did find an option that allows us to get these slipcases to backers who want them for $25. If we are being completely transparent here - it's put us in a very challenging position, because if anything changes to the supply chain over the next six months, we are likely going to lose money on every order. But like everyone else we are crossing our fingers and hoping that the world is stable and that we can still get you these slipcases at this reasonable rate.Â
One last reminder - the slipcase is built for the oversized books. That means they will not fit the trade paperback editions. They are sized to hold the three oversized volumes of either the hardcovers or the metal editions. Â
We appreciate The Terminator fan community who have been instrumental in the development of these beautiful books. Thank you for supporting and offering your thoughts on how to make the project better. Please share this project with family and friends over the next few days as we are coming up on the close of the project. Thank you!
Project Update: Shipping update
Just a really quick update as I scramble to pack for some overseas travel --
(Hopefully our trip won't be as thrilling as this...!)
Project Update: Finalizing Surveys
And while those of you who reserved the BOOM! Direct Reserve exclusive editions will begin receiving them this December, you can find physical copies of these widely available covers at your local comic shop or comic book stores that offer online ordering options. To find a comic store near you and support a small local business, head to our list of dedicated partners or use the Comic Shop Locator Service.
For more exclusives, don't miss the chance to visit the BOOM! Direct Reserve webstore on May 8th and secure your copy of this stunning exclusive cover by Gianluca Gugliotta. This incredibly rare cover is limited to just 250 copies!
Speaking of the BOOM! Direct Reserve exclusive editions, we’re thrilled to show off the next one by Riccardo Latina for THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW #5.
What do you think of this epic cover? Let us know in the comments below!
Lastly, a number of you (over 660!) still have not completed your surveys. In order to deliver your reserved order on time, we need you to complete your survey now!
Project Update: Special Announcement - HC & Metals Now Oversized!
We have a very special announcement for everyone today! Because so many backers have been supportive and helpful as we move into the final week and a half of The Terminator graphic novels campaign, we wanted to offer a big thank you back to everyone. Earlier in the week we announced that the hardcover editions and the limited-edition metals would be upgraded to oversized editions when we exceeded the $200k level of funding. Â
But today, we're happy to tell you that we are not waiting to get there and are unlocking that upgrade right now despite not reaching the goal level yet. This is a special thank you to all of The Terminator fans out there who have been with us since the launch a few weeks back.Â
We are evaluating either adjusting the stretch goals, or changing them to add ons. Right now, we are evaluating our costs and options in the hopes of updating the new revised goals on Monday. We want everyone who has participated in this project to be as excited as we are about the Terminator 40th Anniversary collections and the new upcoming comic series! Â
We're so appreciative of every backer that joined the resistance and got us to this point so quickly. We've listened to your input and while we can't do everything requested, we have done our best to provide you with changes that make as many people as possible happy. Thank you for helping us make this project the best it can be.
And as a quick update - we are actively working with the factory to figure out the options to allow backers to purchase the slipcase as an add on for the HC sets. We have not been happy with the pricing to date and are trying to get better pricing. As soon as we have that information, we will get it out to everyone ASAP. We appreciate your patience while we get the answers figured out. Â
Project Update: Spring Update for Lackadaisy!
Hello to our valued club members and thank you for your continued patience as we go careening through April! As you can see, our estimated release date for books has just whipped past us.
This is the biggest crowdfund that Iron Circus and White Squirrel, our indie comic distributor in the Pacific Northwest, has ever fulfilled. We are preparing to ship some 30,000+ Lackadaisy books to you all. This is immense for us. We are so grateful! But also, it's a logistical challenge!
You may have noticed that people who pre-ordered Lackadaisy Volume 1 from Amazon are already receiving their books, and we felt we ought to explain to you why this is the case. As soon as books arrived from the printer, Amazon was able to grab all of the copies they had reserved in one fell swoop and ship them in the blink of an eye. Meanwhile, White Squirrel, who is fulfilling the book orders for the BackerKit crowdfund, is operating with a small staff and limited warehouse space. They've been a great and reliable distributor for Iron Circus comics in the past, and they are moving as fast as they can, but they simply can't keep pace with a behemoth corporation like Amazon. So, we ask for a little bit more of your patience on that front.
Also, we do want to assure you that you will be receiving all books you pledged for in one package -- Lackadaisy Volume 1, Lackadaisy Volume 2, and the Lackadaisy Essentials art book included. The latter two books are not slated for public release until late in 2024 and early 2025, so you will have them long before anyone is able to get their hands on them from Amazon or any other book retailers.
As a reminder, if you pledged for any physical Lackadaisy books, you also get the corresponding ebook! These are currently available for you to download in your digital rewards here on BackerKit. Click on your account PFP in the upper right corner of BackerKit > Your Pledges & Surveys > View Pledge > Under Survey, click View order > Get Your Digital Downloads
We've got a few other updates for you as well while you are here: firstly the Zib Plush!!Â
This is just a prototype for now, but we thought he was looking dapper enough (smoking habits aside) to show you how he's shaping up.
We've also been busy prototyping the Lackadaisy Card Game!
We still have some minor things to iron out here, like what material will be best to print the cards on (right now, we're testing vinyl), but it's getting close!
Project Update: A plea
As a final push, I'd love to hit 10 backers. While 7 is actually quite thematically appropriate, it's so close to that double digit goal that I want to at least try!
If you haven't backed yet, please consider it. It's only $3 for the PDF! If you know anyone that would like this world I'm making, please share!
We're almost there. I promise the updates will slow down when this ends, and you'll only receive the occasional production update, which shouldn't be too far down the line!
Thank you again, everyone. The journey is just beginning.
Project Update: Goodies That May Interest You!
These are now available for a limited time on the Iron Circus website! I really do not know if we're going to make these again after this so if you wanted one, this is the time. These are again, not pins featured from this Backerkit, but if you are a pin collector like me, you'll want these for your corkboard!
You can find these over here at https://ironcircus.com/store/ ♣
Have a great rest of your week, everybody!
Project Update: Making the book!
Just a quick update here - artists are working on pages! They are due in over the next couple of weeks, and some people have asked for extensions due to scheduling, but that doesn't move my expected ship date of June 2024 just yet (I try to plan for delays in advance). I didn't ask anyone to start working until funding was completed, and art takes time! From what I've seen so far (layouts, pencils, inks...) everything is looking AMAZING and I cannot wait to show you more!
PREORDER SHOP IS OPEN NOW for anyone who missed backing during the campaign!
I will send a bigger update in a couple of weeks once I've gotten more pages in and have more previews to share with backers! I am working on the book layout, and I'm really excited about how it's looking so far.Â
Thank you again!
MicheleÂ
Project Update: Shipping begins next week! Remember to answer your survey!
Tomorrow the printing company will be sending me the comics, and next week I'll begin packaging and shipping!!!!!
So it's the final days to add any add-ons if you want any, and answer the survey!
Keep in mind that if you answer it *after* all the shipping's done, chances are I won't see it, so if in a few weeks you won't have received any updates about your order, feel free to send me a message ^^
If you haven't answered yet, try checking your inbox (both main and social section) and spam!
Project Update: A great first day! Two Stretch Goals unlocked! More to come!
This is our first campaign launched on a Thursday (we normally launch on Tuesdays), so we're a little thrown off schedule by the sudden weekend, but what a nice way to end the week!
YOU HELPED US HIT OUR GOAL -- AND THEN SOME -- IN THE FIRST DAY!
Next up: STICKERS!
You may be thinking there's a big jump from the starting goal to the next stretch goal, but we intentionally use the first day's performance to set the stretch goal milestones so as to keep things revealed at a suitable pace throughout the campaign to keep things interesting... we have several more Bonus Freebies planned, but unlocking them will depend on the continued support of the campaign... SPREAD THE WORD and SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS to bring more people to the project! That way, everyone will benefit from unlocking more stuff!
While we were preparing this update just now, we also hit our 500 Backer Goal, too!
Now, all backers will get a digital wallpaper pack added to their pledge (at any tier)!
We have another goal set at 1000 Backers (all backer names/IDs included in the digital edition) and at 1500 Backers (producing a NEW 5-track soundtrack w/ FREE digital download). We'd love to see everything unlocked for you! But that only happens if we can bring more people to the party! It's an open invitation, so share with everyone you know!
A this rate, we'll probably secure those stickers this weekend, but the sooner they're unlocked, the closer we'll be to the NEXT Bonus...Â
SO SPREAD THE WORD! This is gonna be a wild ride!
