July was a whirlwind with DCC featuring prominently at SDCC and GenCon, and as far as I know our creative team made it out with all their comic makin' extremities intact!! Whew. If you went, we hope you had a good time, and maybe picked up one of the cool DCC drops (you can see some on the Vault Insta!)

Proof of drawing arms/ life from Brett Bean on a very recently completed page:

Okay, onto the important production updates:

• The full DCC: Croc comic and book content will be completed this year (we have so many key scenes  complete that this month we are finally able to draw in all of the cameos from this campaign!)
  
  
• Once Brett wraps on inks, he's jumping right into all of the DCC: Crocodile b/w and color illustrations. He is also completing, uh... inexplicable yam art... and also the final illustration for our reversible croc-Florin dust jacket.
  
  
• We previously communicated that a schedule shift might happen... With our new, updated timeline for the expanded book, our editorial team has estimated that we'll be printing this book in early 2027. Because we want to make sure that backers read this comic as soon as possible, we will likely be sharing the digital version of DCC: Crocodile available as soon as it is complete. This gives the entire creative team the time they need to finish the book at a healthy pace, given they are already currently working as hard as they can. 
  
  
•  We have adjusted the release date of the standard DCC: Crocodile book (in stores) to make sure that you all get yours well in advance.  That means that everyone who backed a physical tier will have their exclusive books in hand by early Spring 2027, with all the non-campaign normies getting their non-exclusive versions a month or two later in May 2027. Unfortunately we cannot help but laugh at them from our lofty perches. 

What else? we've printed and sent bookplates and tip-ins for signatures from Matt Dinniman this month during his brief break from kicking a million asses. And... oh, yeah--Jeff Hays literally can't stop winning. In addition to being the one true Princess Donut, as we knew he was, he also just sent us over the custom audio recordings this campaign, which we sent out to all Celestial Jeff Tier backers right before sending out this post.

With that, we've nearly finished with the critical production of all custom and personalized rewards! And next on our list is finishing up all the physical non-book rewards to ensure that we ship as soon as they're printed. This is a massive campaign with a lot of items, so of course we'll continue to keep you updated as we draw nearer to the big fulfillment event.

NYCC! (in which Vault Comics makes 100% sure you're taken care of)

A large 🍠

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