On Wednesday, the Indiegogo campaign for Micah Curtis’ Englewood #1 successfully hit its funding goal with nearly two weeks left in the crowdfunding period. Englewood is a 32-page superhero tale written by Curtis and featuring artwork by Brian Martinez and colors by Armand Strange. Here’s the pitch straight from Curtis, the “vanilla gorilla” himself: Corruption and Chicago are two words
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Glass Heart Games has unveiled Vigil: the Longest Night, a 2D action platformer with a few RPG elements, massive bosses, and a horror aesthetic similar to Bloodstained and the Castlevania series. Vigil is the first game from Taiwanese game studio Glass Heart Games, who promises “precise and technical combat as well as a rich and strong narrative.” The game itself
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On Tuesday, comic book writer Blake Northcott launched an Indiegogo campaign for her upcoming horror book, Everglade Angels. Sound familiar? It should. Northcott set up a crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter just last month. Now that the Kickstarter campaign is a success, Northcott has created the second campaign on Indiegogo for those who prefer Indiegogo as a crowdfunding platform. But what
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According to Gamescom host Geoff Keighley, Sony Interactive Entertainment will debut the first gameplay trailer for Predator: Hunting Grounds on opening night of Gamescom 2019, which begins on 19 August. Predator: Hunting Grounds is an online asymmetrical multiplayer shooter developed by Illfonic and scheduled to release for PS4 in 2020. You can watch the May reveal trailer below. Source: Gematsu
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WayForward has released a new trailer for River City Girls featuring Kyoko, one of the playable characters in their upcoming sequel to the classic NES brawler, River City Ransom. Here’s the official bio for Kyoko: Kyoko is ready to go in River City Girls! Compared to her BFF Misako, she’s much more cheerful and bubbly, but don’t get her angry
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Dark Horse Comics recently announced a girthy, 440-page omnibus edition of several of the company’s The Witcher miniseries, such as House of Glass, Fox Children, Curse of Crows, and the Killing Monsters one-shot. The book will also include a sketchbook section and annotations from the stories’ creators. Here’s the official breakdown of The Witcher Omnibus from Dark Horse: Multi-Eisner award-winning writer Paul Tobin
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One of the more objective & insightful voices commenting on the comic book industry is Perch, an anonymous comic book shop owner who has appeared on several social media channels including the Larry King and Alterna Comics YouTube channels. Below are Perch’s thoughts on how Marvel’s editorial practices are evident in two of the company’s current events: Absolute Carnage and
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The crowdfunding campaign for Jon Malin’s and Mark Poulton’s graphic novel Graveyard Shift Volume 2 achieved the blessed “Six Figures, bitch!” overnight, crossing over the $100 thousand funding threshold. Not only is that an impressive benchmark to pass, but hitting $100 thousand also means that the Graveyard Shift writing and art staff (Malin excluded) will receive a bonus for their
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Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of SEGA’s most successful console, the SEGA Genesis. System launches were quite a bit different in 1989 than they are now, so details of the event are a little sketchy. What we do know is that the Genesis (known as the Mega Drive outside of North America) launched in both the
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On Friday night, renowned comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver launched a crowdfunding campaign for a variant edition of Vampirella #1 featuring Van Sciver’s own Cyberfrog character alongside Vampi herself. Here’s the sales pitch from Van Sciver: I’m ETHAN VAN SCIVER. I’ve worked for 26 years for Hall of Heroes, Harris Comics, Marvel Comics and most notably DC Comics, creating
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Earlier this week, independent comic book creator Robert Arnold launched a crowdfunding campaign for issues 1 and 2 of Replicator, a sci-fi story which is absolutely designed for mature audiences only. Written by Arnold and featuring illustrations by Aaron Alfeche (Jawbreakers: GØD-K1NG), colors by DC Alonso, and letters by Marshall Dillon, Replicator is a brutal, unforgiving take complete with nudity
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On Wednesday, Coffin Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Lady Death: Blasphemy Anthem, the latest double-sized comic book in the Lady Death series. At the time of this writing, the project has already raised roughly $190 thousand dollars in less than 24 hours. Blasphemy Anthem is co-written by Lady Death creator Brian Pulido and Mike MacLean, and features illustrations by
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Overnight, the crowdfunding campaign for Richard Meyer’s Jawbreakers: GØD-K1NG rallied in its closing hours, raising just shy of $200 thousand with over 5 thousand total backers. Ya. Boi.* This marks the latest success for Richard Meyer and his independent comic book company, Splatto Comics. The previous Jawbreakers graphic novel, Lost Souls, set new crowdfunding records last year (though short-lived), and
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Atomic Wolf recently unveiled the first gameplay trailer has for Liberated, which is set to release on both Nintendo Switch and Steam PC. Liberated is unique in that the action takes place inside the pages of a comic book, with your character traversing between comic book panels as the game progresses. It may sound a bit like SEGA’s Comix Zone
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On Tuesday, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti launched the company’s second Halloween-themed fundraising campaign, AlternaWeen. The intended purpose of the campaign is to raise money for Alterna Comics to maintain and expand its distribution channels. The more money raised, the more product Alterna will be able to send to these new retailers. Backers who support the Alternaween campaign will be sent
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On Tuesday, renowned comic book creator Ethan Van Sciver revealed his line art for an upcoming Vampirella #1 variant due to start crowdfunding later this week on Indiegogo. The cover features the titular Vampirella herself along with Van Sciver’s own Cyberfrog. Take a look at the full image below. It’s… something else. While Van Sciver previously crowdfunded a variant cover
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When Coffin Comics launches Lady Death: Blasphemy Anthem on Kickstarter tomorrow, it will officially introduce a new character to the Lady Death universe: Lady Satanus. After being revealed on one of the variant covers for Blasphemy Anthem, Coffin Comics has received quite a bit of positive feedback on the character from fans. This has prompted the creators to give Lady
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At EVO 2019, Arc System Works announced that a new installment of their one-on-one fighter Guilty Gear is indeed coming our way. Daisuke Ishiwatari presented the reveal trailer himself, which you can watch below. Series mainstays Sol and Ky are back, and the trailer also revealed a mysterious brand new fighter. The series’ aesthetic flare is back in spades, both
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Bandai Namco has announced that Soulcalibur VI will be getting a second season of DLC, which will include Haohmaru from SNK’s Samurai Shodown series (aka Samurai Spirits). Haohmaru is just one of four characters coming as part of the second season of DLC, though he will be the only guest character among them. The rest will be natives of the
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Over the weekend, a new trailer leaked (and was later confirmed) which indicated that BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will receive a “2.0 update” adding a total of nine new characters including at least two from entirely new franchises: Yumi from Senran Kagura (not Homura?!) and both Akatsuki and Blitztank from Akatsuki En-Eins. Yumi from Senran Kagura is armed with traditional paper fans,
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Shanghai-based developer Mihoyo has announced that their open-world action RPG Genshin Impact is coming to PS4 sometime in 2020. In June, Mihoyo confirmed at ChinaJoy that Genshin Impact would be coming to Windows PC, iOS, and Android (WTF?) but the PS4 port is the first console version to be announced. You can watch the PS4 trailer below, followed by the
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Over the weekend, Bandai Namco announced that Cassandra would be joining the cast of Soulcalibur VI as a DLC fighter. The best part, she’s available today (5 August). You can check out her character reveal trailer below and see if she makes your soul burn. Cassandra is the final piece of DLC as part of Soulcalibur VI‘s first season pass,
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At the time of this writing, the all-ages, Lovecraftian horror graphic novel The Case of the Littlest Umbrella has raised more than $96 thousand on Indiegogo. That puts it very close to the blessed “six figures bitc young lady” threshold! (Hey, it’s an all-ages comic, after all) Will it make the big 1-0-0-0-0-0 before the in-demand store closes? The Case
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Earlier this week, independent comic book creator Shaun Davis launched a crowdfunding campaign for Pillowman and Blanketboy: Maximum Velocity, a 40-page superhero action/adventure illustrated by Shaun Davis and co-written by Shaun and his son, Parker Davis, and featuring colors by Rajesh Kumar and lettering by Eric Weathers. Here’s a breakdown of story taken from the Pillowman and Blanketboy Indiegogo campaign
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Independent comic book creator Michael Beacon is laying the groundwork to launch an sci-fi/fantasy series titled Seven Legions. featuring artwork by both Pablo Romero and Henry Ponciano (Tinseltown), Seven Legions is the story in which “an orphan becomes a samurai who takes on the greatest threat the Seven Legions have ever faced.” You can watch the preview trailer for yourself
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Late last week, the crowdfunding campaign for Shinobi Sasquatch crossed the $40 thousand threshold. Now that both Shinobi Sasquatch and Monster M.D. have reached the $40 thousand milestone, that unlocks a very unique stretch goal: a Shinobi Sasquatch Vs. Monster M.D. book for all backers. This bonus crossover book will be drawn by Rob Willis, and written by Von Klaus
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Following our last theme week in May (SEGA Week), we’ve decided to do have another special event here at The Splintering. Starting Monday, 29 July, we’ll be launching Attack Helicopter Week! We’ll be posting reviews and features covering some of your most beloved (and perhaps most despised) attack helicopters. Even if you are not an attack helicopter yourself, everyone is
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On Thursday, the crowdfunding campaign for the final two volumes in the 6-part Sithrah saga came to a very successful end, raising a total of more than $82 thousand. Noice. Sithrah is the brainchild of independent comic book creator Jason Brubaker, who worked previously as a Hollywood storyboard artist and animator on films such Blade and the Kung Fu Panda Trilogy. But
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Two Japanese arcade shoot-em-ups from the early 2000’s are getting slick, limited physical editions for PS4, PS Vita and Nintendo Switch courtesy of Strictly Limited Games. Vasara Collection includes both Vasara and Vasara 2 and will be available to pre-order this Sunday, 27 July. These physical editions will come in two versions, a standard release is limited to 2,500 copies priced at €29.99
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Overnight, the crowdfunding campaign for George Alexopoulos’ anime-inspired graphic novel Mari Sue achieved its funding goal on Indiegogo. The campaign itself includes the first two issues of the series written and illustrated by Alexopoulos. Mari Sue is described as an action comedy story featuring “exo-suit battles, bizarre creatures, a fine cast of characters to befriend, dastardly enemies to despise, and
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