Private Stash Raid!
over 2 years ago – Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 08:23:15 PM

I have seven personal copies of the Gateway Comics & Toys exclusive covers, of which I’m offering up just FIVE as an Add-on for this campaign. LIMITED TO ONE PER BACKER UNTIL GONE!

There were only 200 of these covers printed!

Sorry, I’m keeping the last two for myself, haha.

Best! Charlie

2nd Stretch Goal Hit! SS #3 Cover Tease!!
over 2 years ago – Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 02:24:08 AM

BOOM! And Just Like That...

... you wonderful humans crushed our second Stretch Goal! You've now unlocked two more cover pinups (print and digital) and two more digital indie comics! Now everyone who backed $5 or more gets the following:

• Digital and Physical Backers: Pizza Planet cover digital print, AF15 homage cover digital print, Savage Sasquanaut #1 digital comic, Section 12 digital comic
• Physical Backers also get: Pizza Planet cover physical print, AF15 homage cover physical print

Let's unlock the next level! Increase your pledges or share to get others to help you get more cool free stuff!

➡️➡️➡️ http://kickstarter.spider-squirrel.com ⬅️⬅️⬅️

Fish Lee Wraparound Cover Tease!

Issue #3 will feature an INCREDIBLE wraparound foil cover by Fish Lee that we're teasing here! If we can hit $8k in total pledges before the campaign closes, I'll give all backers a high-res digital version of this cover, but for now you'll have to settle for a motion blurred teaser...

that is all... for now.

STRETCH GOALS UPDATE!
over 2 years ago – Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 10:15:54 AM

Added to the Campaign Story Details:

Now that we are FULLY FUNDED, the Stretch Goals will begin to pour forth unto you all...! Keep in mind that we must remain above these milestones throughout the campaign until it ends to maintain the stretch rewards for you.

•  First Stretch Goal UNLOCKED: Print of the Regular Cover by Oliver Castañeda and Oli Remalante and print of the Excellent! Cover by D.C. Stuelpner for all physical rewards tier backers. Digital prints of both for all Digital Backer! tier and higher ($5+). Also: The Golden Guard, Volume One: Columbia Rediviva digital comic has been added to the Indieverse Digital Bundle for everyone!
   
•  [LOCKED] At $6800 -- Pizza Planet cover print (digital & physical), Amazing Fantasy #15 homage cover print (digital & physical), Savage Sasquanaut #1 digital comic, Section 12 digital comic added to the Indieverse Digital Bundle
   
•  [LOCKED] At $7000 -- TP vs Ninjas cover print, Lumberjax #1 digital comic, Lumberjax #2 digital comic, 5pp preview of Bluechip and the NEW Teen Force 5 series for both physical and digital backers
   
•  [LOCKED] At $7200 -- McDaniel KS exclusive cover print, American Dreams #1 digital comic, Detrimony #1 digital comic, Detrimony #2 digital comic, 5pp preview of The Fundamentals one-shot for both physical and digital backers, PLUS every physical reward backer gets a random trading cart from set #2 dropped into their rewards package
   
•  [LOCKED] At $7500 -- 1 in 5 chromium card for physical rewards backers (randomly dropped into 20% of the rewards packages), 7Ronin digital bios (all 7 characters) — project expected 2023, Les Supérieurs digital hero bios (main team members) — project expected late-2022/early-2023
   
•  [LOCKED] At $8000 -- Digital wallpaper of Fish Lee’s wraparound cover for issue #3 to all backers ($5 Digital Backer! tier and up) w/ map and hyperlinks to owner-creators for each guest hero, PLUS a special pinup for physical and digital backers produced by Luis Rivera featuring three uber-powerful heroes in the Xion Universe: Milestone, Wonderman, and Valiant, courtesy of our pals at Temporal Comics
   

We are literally $1 away from the next stretch goal! Let's do this!

Best,

Charlie

Under The Weather -- Still Here!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 10:06:58 AM

Yuck...

... that about sums up how I've felt pretty much all weekend, and even into today. 🤒 I'm up & at 'em again, but not 100%. Still, there's work to be done! So, here I am playing a little catch-up on some things, including this update.

Inching Closer to Funding

We're just under $200 shy of funding and moving into Stretch Goals! Let's do this! Please share this campaign with friends & family and tell them just how much fun it is and they should back it, too! Haha! You can even tease them this interior page from Vito Delsante (Stray), Andrea Errico (Grimm Fairy Tales), and Simon Gough (TMNT).

 Trading Card Designs Coming!

Continuing the trading card set from Issue #1, this follow-up will feature characters such as Wonderman, Dr. Æon, Misery, Saturnus, and more...!

"Pizza Planet" Cover WIP

Just because it's such a cool cover I figure it'd be fun to share the cover again with the Freestyle Komics trade dress, complete with a busted Spider-Squirrel logo! Enjoy!

CLASSIC COMIC BOOK LETTERS COLUMN!

That's right! If you missed the earlier news update, I'm adding a classic comic book letters column that will see YOUR letters printed and answered in the back of every Xion Studios comic that is produced. That means even if you write about a one-shot title of mine, that letter could still end up printed and answered in a future publication's letters column. How do you get letters submitted? Email your comments, questions, personal opinions, fan art, complaints, hopes, dreams, desires, or dating profile to [email protected]

 
This Looks HellaFUN!

Okay, I admit to having missed out on the first BEEF BROS. campaign, but I got my rewards for backing Stoned Master and I immediately jumped in on this campaign. Stoned Master was hilarious, and if that's the kind of crazy, wild, whacked-out humor I can expect from Aubrey Sitterson, then I'm in for more!

 
That's It For This Update!

Let's go crush this campaign! I have some great ideas for your Stretch Goals, and I'm REALLY looking forward to getting this Mikey Rukus + Omega-Sparx (All-Elite Wrestling) theme song onto your hard drives and into your ears!!!

Charlie

Back In Action!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 09:52:21 AM

AND WE'RE FUNDED!!!

Thank you to each of you for believing in and backing this project! We have about 11 days remaining, but we've officially hit goal so far. But, please keep sharing because that will mean for you...

...STRETCH GOALS!!!

I had to get super-creative last time because we funded so early, but thankfully that translated over into some preparedness for this campaign. Now that we've hit our initial funding goal, and stay that way, all Physical Rewards backers will now receive a print of the Regular Cover and the Excellent! Cover (both "virgin"/without trade dress) at no extra charge! Digital backers, likewise, will get a digital pinup of the covers as a bonus! That also means all backers who supported at the Digital Backer! level and higher will receive a digital copy of The Golden Guard: Volume One - Columbia Rediviva!

TGGv1 is not available anywhere else currently, so if you liked their cameo in SS#1 (and #2) then you'll love learning more about this Golden Age superhero group for FREE! Thanks for backing!

At $7000 you'll unlock another pair of prints/digital pinups -and- I'll add two more digital comics to your Indieverse Digital Bundles!

 Don't Stray too far on this Quest! 

If you like getting bonuses and extras just for backing cool projects, then consider this: if you back Stray by Vito Delsante at a physical rewards level, as well as my campaign at a physical rewards tier, you will get a sweet Ariel Medel (Evil Ernie) exclusive print of Spider-Squirrel, Trash Panda, and Stray!

If you want even more bonuses for backing cool sh!+, then consider doing likewise with Michael Watson's Emerald Quest #1! Backing both of our campaigns at a physical tier will get you an incredibly awesome, bar-brawling pinup of Trash Panda and Noble!

And here's some more cool stuff, just because you may be interested:

•  Miss Medusa's Monstrous Menagerie (horror, comedy, sideshow freaks, & more!)
•  Duplicant: A Dystopian Biopunk Thriller (can't describe this one any better than that...)
•  In The Land of the Dragon #1 (cyberpunk fantasy comic)
•  Misfitz Clubhouse #1: Let The Shenanigans BEGIN! (appropriate for readers of ALL ages!)
•  Blood & Fire: Chapter 1 - A Samurai Tale (I just found this one myself last night, backed it, and thought I'd share -- looks SO cool!)
•  Anybodies #1 (The first book from the new Artists Elite Comics imprint, created by Brett Booth!)
•  Team SupremUS #0: Expanded Edition (an indie comics superhero group for all!)

Thank you again for your support! Let's press ahead! I'll be spending my weekend assembling final files of the book (all the pages and covers are already completed, just need trade dress and assembly), as well as building the rest of the Trading Card set for this campaign (7 total cards), and trying to relax a little! 🤣🤣🤣

Best to you all!

Charlie

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