Kickstart the Week 71: the Thrilling Adventures of Zorro and zombies!

It's been a couple months since the last Kickstart the Week feature on this blog. It's been a long-standing mainstay that I like to focus attention on great new works over at that site. So I'm bringing it back as a part of a rotating set of features on Monday designed to bring attention to super powered fiction of all varieties. With this change, we're also be focusing on multiple Kickstarters, all of which I think are worth a look.


Robert Greenberger is a name recognizable to long-time comics fans for his work as an editor for many years at DC Comics. He parlayed that success into a run as a Star Trek prose author and has since teamed with several alums of both comics and Trek to form Crazy 8 Press. Now he's producing a new anthology from that press that should make fans of superheroes and pulp adventure excited! It's called Thrilling Adventure Yarns.

The project looks to tell stories in the tradition of the pulps, although it seems to have its major focus on the heroic side of things. It features several names that should be familiar to comic and pulp fans like Paul Kupperberg, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert T. Jeschonek and Jim Beard. It apparently even will feature an unearthed tale from the legendary Shadow creator Lester Dent never published before this book. That's an impressive line-up and is only about half the contents!

Give it a look and get ready for some great adventure yarns in the future.

Speaking of pulp heroes with a superhero flair, the folks at Gallant Knight have set out to finally create the first full-fledged role playing game based around the hundred year old hero Zorro!

2019 is the character's anniversary, so it's great to see old Los Angeles being brought to life in all its glory using the classic West End D6 system well known to a lot of gamers.

The company has been sharing bits and pieces of the rules online for the last few weeks, so be sure to check out the Kickstarter for more details!


William Tucci most famously created Shi, one of my favorite all time characters. Now he's making a big comic comeback. First, he has a new series with Axe Cop creator Ethan Nicolle called Appalachian Apocalypse. Now he's mounting the finished version of a story he started a decade ago, about a samurai fighting the undead: Zombie-Sama!

I'm all for Tucci branching out to producer more great work. I'm equally excited to see the talented John Broglia continue to produce stupendous art for the series. But I'm probably most excited that the project offers an ashcan of the upcoming return of Shi, a character I've waited for decades to see more stories about.

Head over to the Kickstarter and check out all the fun of Zombie-Sama and throw some support to a talented creative team!

Pangaea still needs your support!

No one wants to see a good Kickstarter fail. Right now with just two days left, Pangaea is still over a thousand dollars away from funded. I know I talked it up in last week’s Kickstart the Week, but they still need a bit more help. It is very possible to get this thing funded if just a few more folks go out there and lend some money to great writing by Michael Jan Friedman, Peter David, Paul Kupperberg, Robert Greenberger and even more. If you want to continue to see some great work from some great writers, go out there and give it a couple bucks.

Kickstart the Week 6: Pangaea

Michael Jan Friedman has created some great books in the past, but now he has set out to create a new anthology of stories set on a shared world. Pangaea is built around the conceit that continents never divided and in remaining one land mass, history developed quite differently.

The book is filled with some great names of science fiction, but superhero fans will probably recognize Peter David, Paul Kupperberg and Robert Greenberger, all veterans of the comic industry. With reasonable buy-in levels and a neat concept, this book deserves to see the light of day.

Head over to Kickstarter and help make Pangaea happen before time runs out.