Release #1 - A Haunting on Mars Issue #1
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1: A Haunting on Mars Issue #1
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320 views • Nov 03, 2024
A cyberpunk ghost story: A dangerous hacker is captured and forced on a suicide mission into a haunted house on Mars.
Cducharme 10 months ago
Yes! Another title freed from a certain company who shall not be named’s clutches of inactivity. May you guys get lots of new interest for funding future books (not just this title), too many great starts fell victim to the one and none of that entity.
Chappy 10 months ago
@Cducharme: lol! they were TERRIBLE at releasing #2s. glad I got out. we've got a live Kickstarter right now for #1-#4!! over the upcoming week I'll be putting 2 and 3 up here as well!
Cducharme 10 months ago
@Chappy: oh that’s active? Guess I’m backer 84 than! Also stoked to check out the house of blood add on.
Chappy 10 months ago
@Cducharme: dude no way! thank you so much!! backers like you are the reason I was able to have a second chance with A Haunting on Mars!
Cducharme 10 months ago
@Chappy: Funny enough reading about that company, avatar, aftershock, and action labs for recentish companies mistreating their creators got me looking more into crowd funding from creators who worked with them as it was never their ability to find stories I like that was a problem. In other words very much my pleasure to help when I find out about those things.
Chappy 10 months ago
Aww, I hadn't heard about Avatar, but I did hear about Aftershock and Action Labs. It's tough out there. Too many mid-sized publishers that are leeches on the industry.
Cducharme 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)
@Chappy: I do think lots of the problem is companies acting as the classic mid sized publisher like was possible when a slow book still sold thousands of copies an issue, a company could be mid-sized and put out 6 books a month because a hit then would actually fund 3-4 other titles. Now when success is measured significantly smaller it’s nearly impossible to hold with that model without falling into behavior that’s unethical at mildest and horrible at worst as there’s just not as much a buying public as there used to be.
Chappy 10 months ago
@Cducharme: 100%! I think a lot of these midsized publishers never scaled back. 4-6 titles a month isn't overboard. But some of these midsized publishers would have well over a dozen books coming out a month. and I can tell you they don't really care about the comics. They are interested in TV and film rights. They're IP farms, with a shotgun style approach to snatching up IP.
But there are some cool looking publishers on the horizon. Magma has some awesome looking comics out right now and they're a brand new midsized. They launched with 3 or 4 titles, so hopefully they don't lose focus.
Cducharme 10 months ago
I’m super optimistic for Magma, so far great stories and The Pedestrian has been crossing over into the more mainstream fandoms! And definitely agreed on the IP farming of a few of these companies.