“Sex, booze, and blood!” That sounds like college, all right Over the weekend, renowned comic book creator and teen sensation Billy Tucci launched a crowdfunding campaign for Zombie-Sama: Dorm of the Dead, a 104-page action/horror adventure. Written by Billy Tucci and featuring illustrations by by John Broglia, Dorm of the Dead is the follow-up to the first Zombie-Sama book released
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Put a fetching visage of Death on your shelf. Crusade Fine Arts and Executive Replicas have teamed up to create a 6” Shi action figure based on the celebrated comic book by Billy Tucci. The figure is currently available to preorder via the Executive Replicas website. Crusade and Executive Replicas have previously collaborated to create 12” Shi action figures, but
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Earlier this week, Shi creator and Crusade Comics founder Billy Tucci revealed that there is a brand new, 6” Shi action figure coming soon via Executive Replicas. The Ana Ishikawa figure has over a dozen points of articulation, and will come with multiple accessories and swappable heads. According to Tucci, the design process on the Shi action figure has been
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On Wednesday, renowned comic book creator, Crusade Comics founder and “teen sensation” Billy Tucci launched a crowdfunding campaign for Shi: Sakura, a 56-page graphic novel featuring the original “bad girl” of 90s comics. The campaign is already a remarkable success, having raised more than $80 thousand at the time of this writing. Reuniting the creative team of Tucci, writer Steven
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Today we’re unboxing our Indiegogo-exclusive copy of Shi Omnibus: Volume 1 by Crusade Comics. It arrived with a pretty massive hole in the side, but did the book sustain any damage in transit? Watch to find out! Thanks for watching today. We appreciate all feedback – positive, constructive, or colorful. Thanks for reading! Please consider following The Splintering on social
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Welcome back to Jolly Jinglings, The Splintering’s celebration of all births virgin and immaculate. Today we’re unboxing a couple of comic books that recently arrived at the mailbox of The Splintering HQ (my house): Irene Strychalski’s Fiendish and Billy Tucci’s A Child Is Born. It should also be noted that this is the final performance of my fluffy black cat
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On Tuesday, renowned comic book creator, Crusade Comics founder and “Teen Sensation” Billy Tucci launched a crowdfunding campaign for Shi: Omnibus Volume 1, the hardcover book that collects all 12 issues of Shi: Way of the Warrior, the three-part Tomoe miniseries, and the 48-page Shi Vs. Tomoe, making a thicc 488-page total. At the time of this writing, the campaign
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Today, I’m unboxing Crusade Comics’ Shi Haikyo by Billy Tucci, Steven Peros and Gardenio Lima. We reviewed the first crowdfunded Shi book, Return of the Warrior in December (spoilers: we liked it), so hopefully Haikyo maintains the same level of quality. You can check out the Shi Haikyo unboxing video below. I appreciate all feedback – positive, constructive, or colorful.
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Now that Shi creator and Crusade Comics founder Billy Tucci has launched Shi: Haikyo on Indiegogo, now seemed to be the time to do a “Crowdfunding Review” for Shi: Return of the Warrior, the first book in the Shi revival trilogy. For those of you not familiar with the crowdfunding review format, we grade a crowdfunding campaign on four distinct
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Now that fulfillment on Shi: Return of the Warrior is complete, celebrated comic book artist and Shi creator Billy Tucci is prepping the next chapter in Ana Ishikawa’s story: Shi: Haikyo. Haikyo will come with a hardcover option, both a standard and a cosplay variant cover (featuring actress Joanie Brosas), and the campaign will be 100% Indiegogo exclusive. This may
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Welcome back to the Festival of Dread, The Splintering‘s month-long celebration of all things dark and dystopian! Today, we’re featuring yet another “Crowdfunding Review” of an independent comic book, this time it’s Zombie-Sama! written by Billy Tucci and featuring illustrations by John Broglia and colors by Paul Little. For those of you not familiar with the crowdfunding review format, we
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Last week, celebrated comic book creator Billy Tucci partnered with Dynamite Comics to launch a crowdfunding campaign for Miss Fury – Joy Division, a 100-page graphic novel starring one comics’ original superheroines. Written by Tucci (Shi) and featuring illustrations by Maria Laura Sanapo and colors by Ceci de la Cruz (Lady Death), Miss Fury is a revival of the classic
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Over the weekend, the dual crowdfunding campaigns for Billy Tucci’s Shi: Return of the Warrior ended as massive successes, raising a combined total of more than $130 thousand between the concurrent Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, crossing the blessed “six figures, bitch” threshold.* With those numbers, the Shi: RotW campaigns unlocked several stretch goals, including several metallic cards, a Tucci Trooper
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On Thursday, celebrated comic book creator Billy Tucci (Billy Fucking Tucci to his friends) launched a crowdfunding campaign for Shi: Return of the Warrior. Shi was a best-selling staple of the 90s comic book industry, and Return of the Warrior is a 48-page revival written and illustrated by Tucci himself, who is joined by co-writer Steven Peros, co-artist Ricardo Silva,
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I recently received my copy of Zombie Sama, the new action/horror graphic novel written by Billy Tucci and featuring Illustrations by John Broglia (God Complex) and colors by Paul Little. I thought I could unbox it and give you all a sense of what was included and the condition in which it arrived. I backed the lowest tier on the
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Earlier this week, Dynamite Entertainment launched a crowdfunding campaign for a special, double-anniversary variant of Vampirella #1 featuring cover art by renowned comic book creator Billy Tucci (Zombie Sama). These limited edition covers feature Tucci’s own Shi character alongside Vampi herself. Here’s the pitch straight from the Indiegogo campaign page: It’s Vampirella’s 50th anniversary this year, and the newest comic
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Comic book “bad girls” Shi and Lady Death already have a bit of a history together, but both characters are also sharing their 25th anniversary this year. 25, eh? They look great. So how will these two deadly femme fatales celebrate? In true comic book fashion, of course- with variant covers! Shi creator Billy Tucci recently revealed that his is
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Dynamite Comics originally planned to release Billy Tucci‘s take on the Golden Age character Miss Fury in late 2018. After a significant delay, Miss Fury – Joy Division is now set to release this fall, with issue #1 hitting comic shop shelves on 25 September. Here’s a breakdown of Miss Fury – Joy Division from Previews World: Multi-Eisner nominee Billy
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After a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, renowned comic creator Billy Tucci (SHI) has made good on his promise to launch a second campaign on Indiegogo for those who prefer it as a crowdfunding platform. It was fully funded in less than two hours. This huge head start was thanks in no small part to Tucci’s personal friend and comic-creating
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Late last week, the crowdfunding campaign for Zombie Sama came to a close, raising more than 200% of its original goal for a total of over $30 thousand dollars. As a result the campaign reached two of its stretch goals, netting backers a slick vinyl sticker and a Zombie Sama trading card. Tucci counted down the final hour of the
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Billy Tucci’s upcoming graphic novel Zombie Sama is already a crowdfunding success on Kickstarter, having achieved full funding in the first seven hours of the campaign. As of today, the action/horror gore-fest crossed yet another milestone by raising more than $20 thousand. That’s not all of the Zombie Sama news for today. After a girthy dose of badgering inquiring from
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On Wednesday, renowned comic book creator Billy Tucci (Shi) launched a new crowdfunding campaign for Zombie Sama, an all-new 60-page graphic novel marrying horror, action and what looks to be girthy doses of violence. The project is already an instant success, as it was fully funded in the first seven hours.* At the helm is Billy Tucci in the writer’s
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