“Code Monkey Save World” Kickstarter Expanding to 96 Page Count W/ Bonus Story
After successfully tripling its original sales goal, Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton are set to give supporters even more than they bargained for with an expanded page count & bonus content for Code Monkey Save World.
Courtesy of the April 22nd press release,
In its first seven days, the “Code Monkey Save World” graphic novel Kickstarter has raised over three times its original goal and project masterminds Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton have already increased the page count of the book from 60 to 80 pages.
Today, Pak and Coulton have set a stretch goal to expand the book again — to 96 pages. Once the Kickstarter reaches $130,000, all backers who choose rewards that include the book will receive the expanded pages at no extra cost.
“We’re incredibly grateful for all the support and we’re doing everything we can to make this book as good as it can be,” says Pak. “Expanding to 96 pages means four covers, the back cover, 80 pages of story, and eleven pages of extras and goodies. That’s 32 more story pages than we originally planned.”
“That’s one of the glories of Kickstarter,” says Coulton. “If enough people come together, the project can just keep getting better and better.”
As an added bonus — which is effective immediately, even before reaching the stretch goal — Pak and Coulton have enlisted the great Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, the award-winning comic creators behind “Action Philosophers” and “Comic Book Comics,” to bring their special talents to a two page story riffing on the real-world history and ideas behind one of Coulton’s songs. (Right now “Mandelbrot Set” looks like the most likely candidate.)
The Van Lente/Dunlavey story will be an extra in the printed trade paperback of “Code Monkey Save World,” so everyone who pledges to get a physical trade paperback will get this new Van Lente/Dunlavey story for free.
The Kickstarter will run until 9:18 am ET on May 15 and can be reached via www.codemonkeycomix.com.
“Code Monkey Save World” is a graphic novel written by Greg Pak (“Planet Hulk,” “Batman/Superman,” “Magneto Testament”) and drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa (“Runaways”) based on the songs of internet superstar musician Jonathan Coulton. Jessica Kholinne (“X-Treme X-Men”) will color, and Simon Bowland (“Incredible Hercules”) will letter. The book will be distributed digitally by Monkeybrain Comics via comiXology.
The book follows Code Monkey, the put-upon coding monkey from the eponymous Coulton song, as he teams up with the seething, lovelorn super-villain from Coulton’s song “Skullcrusher Mountain.” The unlikely duo fight robots, office worker zombies, and maybe even each other as they struggle to impress the amazing women for whom they fruitlessly long.
Other characters include office-worker-turned-action-
IMAGE: “Code Monkey Save World” cover, Red Room variant, art by Takeshi Miyazawa, colors by Jessica Kholinne.
Timdogg
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