The Forgotten Five: Now on Kickstarter!

THE FORGOTTEN FIVE *print edition* campaign is now LIVE!

Ever since we launched The Forgotten Five here on Patreon, the main question we’ve gotten is “will there be a print edition? When?!” And now we can answer that: yes! There is one – and you can pre-order it!

Sara, Dean, Pat, and I always envisioned TFF as a long-running saga, akin to the comics we’d pick up on the newsstand as kids like Uncanny X-Men or Legion of Super-Heroes: part of a bigger, complex world, featuring detours and subplots and slow-burn conflicts, and loaded with messy, interesting people. Patreon served as the best way to get that serialized story out – but we always knew we’d need to add to that infrastructure to get it in print and to reach readers outside of Patreon.

So, with that, we’ve launched a TFF Kickstarter – collecting the first 60+ pages of story, with exclusive new content, a bevy of variant covers from some industry all-stars, character profiles, and lots more.

Plus exclusive perks for folks like you, who’ve supported the Patreon since we launched! If you’re a patron of TFF, swing over there to see some exclusive goodies we’ve included in the campaign for you!

Back the campaign for exclusive rewards like variant covers…

…tote bags…

…and even the original hand-drawn cover art by artist DEAN KOTZ!

We’re excited to partner with the great team at New Pain Productions who will be helping to run and coordinate the backend stuff for the crowdfunders, and we’re super-ecstatic to unveil more on the campaign, like stretch goals covers from Chloe Brailsford and Michael Fiffe, very soon.

I also want to note - this isn’t the final print iteration for this series. This is a SPECIAL EDITION of the Patreon material and we’ve got some big plans cooking for the series as a whole in terms of comic shops, bookstores, and more. Please stay tuned!

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