Good Comics Don't Care How Many Kickstarters You've Run - What's New in Kickstarter Comics for August 25, 2026

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Last Ride of the 4 Horsemen is the tale of Cager Dobbin, a local hired gun, and his battle to survive and destroy the monstrous, Apocalyptic Horsemen who emerge, one by one from nowhere, to obliterate his town of Promise.

But why did the Horsemen target his town? Why did they hunt him and his circle to near annihilation? What unseen master unleashes them on the world? And what arcane power do they wield so destructively?

Over the 264 pages of story in these three volumes of Last Ride of the 4 Horsemen, Cager embarks on a quest to answer those harrowing questions and, in so doing, must overcome his old frenemy Wilbur Fairless - in many lethal forms - on his mission of vengeance against the celestial forces that ignited the Steampunk Apocalypse.

• Sixteen comics launched on August 25 — $53,399 raised from 1,073 backers combined. Two of the sixteen were NSFW.

• NEXUS: TRIPLETS alone raised $22,304 against a $5,000 goal — funded in under an hour and responsible for better than 4 in every 10 comics dollars that moved yesterday.

• Funding ranged from $14 (Bright Comic Book) to $22,304 (NEXUS: TRIPLETS) — a roughly 1,593x spread inside the same 24 hours.

• Six of the day’s eight Comics I Like picks are already fully funded, several well past goal with weeks still on the clock.

• Four of the sixteen are continuations of an existing story — ICE & BONE (finale to Blood & Fire), Lady Savage #2 (direct sequel), Cambriendu (funding issue #2 after an already-printed #1), and Revenge Guy #1 Re-launch — the other twelve are new #1s.

Emily J Stewart · Sci-fi satire, meta cartoon parody

A debut creator’s first Kickstarter, and it doesn’t play like one — the premise is sharp and self-aware: the cast of an ‘80s toy-commercial cartoon wakes up to the fact that they’ve been sold, watched, and rerun forever. That’s the kind of central conceit that either lands as genuinely funny or falls apart in the execution, and early response — 124% funded with almost a month still to go — suggests Stewart is threading the needle. A good pick for anyone who grew up on Saturday-morning toy commercials masquerading as entertainment and always suspected something was off about it.

$1,693 raised / 34 backers / 124% funded

Ryan Gutierrez / BLACKMARROW COMICS · Action-romance, high fantasy Arthurian retelling

Gutierrez’s fourth trip to Kickstarter, and Camelot gets the straightforward big-swing treatment — action, romance, and high-fantasy stakes with no ironic distance from the genre. It crossed its goal on day one, and for an Arthurian retelling — a well that’s been drawn from constantly since the genre existed — clearing that bar fast says the take here has enough of its own identity to cut through. Worth a look if you want your knights sincere instead of subverted.

$2,041 raised / 35 backers / 102% funded

BIG Studios (Mike Baron & Kelsey Shannon) · Sci-fi superhero revival

Baron and Steve Rude co-created Nexus back in 1981, and Baron is still writing the character well over four decades later — the kind of continuity indie comics almost never get to keep. Triplets funded in under an hour and sits at 446% of goal, proof there’s a real audience for the character well outside the direct market. New to Nexus? Doesn’t matter — this is exactly the kind of legacy-IP relaunch built to double as someone’s first issue.

$22,304 raised / 376 backers / 446% funded

C.J. Hudson · Superhero, hard-drinking celebrity anti-hero

Hudson has run eight campaigns and picked up 635 lifetime backers doing it, and Granite shows the craft that kind of run buys: a burned-out-rockstar-turned-superhero premise played for character instead of gimmick. Kickstarter tagged it a Project We Love, and 212% funding with over three weeks left backs that call up. A strong pick if “superhero” and “rockstar” in the same sentence sounds more interesting to you than exhausting.

$3,178 raised / 85 backers / 212% funded

Pat Shand / SPACE Between Entertainment · Epic fantasy, Wild Wisps universe

Shand has run more Kickstarters than most publishers run total titles — 56 and counting — and Queen Raina lands right as Space Between expands its flagship Wild Wisps universe with a newly signed 24-issue deal. This isn’t a one-off side quest; it’s a fantasy world with real, growing infrastructure behind it, and 245% funding with over two weeks left says readers are noticing. If cut-throat epic fantasy with real narrative ambition is your thing, this is the pick with the most machinery running behind it.

$12,230 raised / 289 backers / 245% funded

Aaron Wroblewski · Samurai action-horror, series finale

Wroblewski has been building this world since Blood & Fire first hit Kickstarter, and that earlier series went on to print distribution through Red 5 Comics — real proof this samurai-revenge saga has staying power beyond crowdfunding alone. Ice & Bone closes it out, and at 50% funded with a month still on the clock, it’s the Comics I Like pick with the most room left to grow. Worth backing early if you want in on how a self-published saga actually earns its ending.

$2,601 raised / 60 backers / 50% funded

SeerNova Comics (Greg Moquin & Dillon Mysliwiec) · Grounded superhero, dark

SeerNova has put out a dozen campaigns and built a reputation for helping other indie creators promote their own books alongside their own catalog — a rarer thing in this space than it should be. Fireproof plays its “one becomes a hero, one becomes a monster” premise dark and grounded rather than chasing spectacle, a real tonal outlier against a slate full of bigger, brighter capes. It’s the slowest starter of the eight picks, which makes it the one that most needs the push.

$155 raised / 10 backers / 9% funded

Comic Soup (Kit Wallis & Allen Dunford) · Comedy/horror grindhouse

The title alone tells you almost everything — a trained samurai just wants to be left alone, and the zombie apocalypse has other plans. Comic Soup leans hard into manga-inspired art and grindhouse pacing, and readers responded: 239% funded with 127 backers, the strongest single-day backer count of any pick on this list. Proof that a great premise plus committed execution can outrun a modest goal by a mile.

$7,172 raised / 127 backers / 239% funded

Yesterday’s Comics I Like slate is worth sitting with before anything else, because it’s about as strong a single day as this feature has covered. All eight picks point away from playing their genre straight — a toy-commercial cartoon realizing it’s a cartoon, a superhero who’s a burned-out rockstar, a decades-old sci-fi legacy character revived for a new generation, an Arthurian romance leaning into swagger instead of solemnity. That’s not a coincidence of taste; it’s a pattern. And the creator experience behind those eight picks ranges about as wide as this feature ever sees in one day — from Emily Stewart’s first-ever Kickstarter to Pat Shand’s fifty-sixth — with no visible relationship between where a creator sits on that spectrum and how good the pitch is. Six of the eight are already funded, several well past goal with weeks still on the clock; the other two (ICE & BONE, Fireproof) simply launched against bigger goals and have more runway ahead, not weaker books. Good comics showed up regardless of genre or track record yesterday — a rarer alignment than it should be.

The overall slate’s funding curve is about as steep as this feature has ever recorded. NEXUS: TRIPLETS pulled in $22,304; Bright Comic Book pulled in $14 — a roughly 1,593x gap inside the same 24 hours. Unlike some spreads flagged here before, this one maps cleanly onto pre-built audience: TRIPLETS, QUEEN RAINA, and Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer are backed by a legacy IP, an expanding multi-title publisher, and an established imprint, respectively, while the bottom of the slate — Bright, Cambriendu — are true solo-creator entries with no existing audience to draw on.

Genre skewed toward reinvention over straight genre exercises across the full sixteen, not just the Comics I Like eight. Samurai-and-horror turned up twice independently (Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer, ICE & BONE), and Kamigami no Torai took the unusual route of adapting primary Japanese myth text rather than inventing new folklore. NSFW and mainstream content ran with no correlation to funding — Lady Savage #2’s $341 and Mysteries Beneath the Surface’s $101 both landed in the bottom third of the day regardless of content rating, right alongside non-NSFW comics in the same range (Cambriendu $156, Fireproof $155, Skinshifter $142).

Geographic spread. This slate ran from Chattanooga, TN and Portland, OR to Surrey, UK and Florence, Italy, with Kamigami no Torai’s bilingual Italian/English presentation and Xrossmancer’s Japan-set isekai both underscoring how international this platform’s creators and settings have gotten.

1. NEXUS: TRIPLETS (Comics I Like) — BIG Studios — $22,304 — 376 backers — Goal $5,000 — 446% funded — Avg pledge $59.32 — Sci-Fi Superhero — Funded ✓, 44 days to go

2. QUEEN RAINA #1 (Comics I Like) — Pat Shand — $12,230 — 289 backers — Goal $5,000 — 245% funded — Avg pledge $42.32 — Epic Fantasy — Funded ✓, 16 days to go

3. The Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer #1 (Comics I Like) — Comic Soup — $7,172 — 127 backers — Goal $3,000 — 239% funded — Avg pledge $56.47 — Comedy/Horror — Funded ✓, 23 days to go

4. Granite: Powerless #1 & 2 (Comics I Like) — C.J. Hudson — $3,178 — 85 backers — Goal $1,500 — 212% funded — Avg pledge $37.39 — Superhero — Funded ✓, 24 days to go

5. ICE & BONE (1-4) (Comics I Like) — Aaron Wroblewski — $2,601 — 60 backers — Goal $5,250 — 50% funded — Avg pledge $43.35 — Samurai Action-Horror — Funding, 30 days to go

6. Knights of Camelot #1 (Comics I Like) — Ryan Gutierrez — $2,041 — 35 backers — Goal $2,000 — 102% funded — Avg pledge $58.31 — Action/Romance/High Fantasy — Funded ✓, 29 days to go

7. The End of the Galactic Conquerors - Issue #1 (Comics I Like) — Emily J Stewart — $1,693 — 34 backers — Goal $1,363 — 124% funded — Avg pledge $49.79 — Sci-Fi Satire — Funded ✓, 28 days to go

8. Xrossmancer Issue 1 — Mavros Prime — $655 — 9 backers — Goal $2,000 — 33% funded — Avg pledge $72.78 — Manga/Isekai — Funding, 28 days to go

9. Kamigami no Torai - The Advent of the Gods — KumiShire — $536 — 13 backers — Goal $2,916 — 18% funded — Avg pledge $41.23 — Mythology Adaptation — Funding, 29 days to go

10. Cambriendu — Bobby May — $156 — 3 backers — Goal $5,000 — 3% funded — Avg pledge $52.00 — Sci-Fi Fantasy — Funding, 29 days to go

11. Fireproof Issue 1 (Comics I Like) — SeerNova Comics — $155 — 10 backers — Goal $1,750 — 9% funded — Avg pledge $15.50 — Superhero — Funding, 32 days to go

12. Skinshifter Chapter 1 — Kevisyde Global — $142 — 6 backers — Goal $200 — 71% funded — Avg pledge $23.67 — Horror — Funding, 29 days to go

13. Revenge Guy #1 Re-launch — Paul McMorran — ~$80 (CA$111) — 5 backers — Goal ~$468 (CA$649) — 17% funded — Avg pledge ~$16.00 — Superhero Comedy — Funding, 19 days to go

14. Bright Comic Book — Scott Dorian Dancer — $14 — 1 backer — Goal $2,500 — 1% funded — Avg pledge $14.00 — Crime/Superhero — Funding, 29 days to go

NSFW campaigns are ranked separately below, in their own subsection.

• The Discovery of K-pop: The Asian Hall of Fame story book — Immedium (Phil Amara, Oliver Chin & Juan Calle) · $680 raised / 6 backers · 11% funded · An illustrated kids’ history book tracing K-pop’s rise, not a sequential comic.

Creator: Mavros Prime studio · Location: South Florida, FL · Genre: Manga/Isekai · Goal: $2,000 · Raised: $655 (33% funded) · Backers: 9 · Avg pledge: $72.78 · End date: September 22, 2026 · Prior campaign history: this is the studio’s first Kickstarter project.

Xrossmancer follows a group of American students pulled through a portal into a magic-soaked version of Japan, landing this squarely in isekai territory with a Western cast doing the adjusting. Mavros Prime is an indie studio that works across comics, games, and animation, and the pitch leans on that cross-media sensibility rather than sticking to strict comic-panel convention. It’s a debut Kickstarter for the studio, betting a manga-influenced visual style can carry a well-worn genre premise on craft alone.

Day-1 note: $655 from 9 backers against a $2,000 goal (33% funded) with 28 days to go — a workable early pace for a studio’s first Kickstarter, with plenty of runway left to build.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.

Creator: KumiShire · Location: Florence, Italy · Genre: Mythology Adaptation · Goal: $2,916 · Raised: $536 (18% funded) · Backers: 13 · Avg pledge: $41.23 · End date: September 23, 2026 · Prior campaign history: shows as a first Kickstarter project for this creator; her own bio describes this as her sixth crowdfunding campaign overall, which would point to prior campaigns run on another platform, though that couldn’t be independently confirmed.

Kamigami no Torai adapts the Kojiki and Nihonshoki — Japan’s foundational mythological texts — into a bilingual Italian/English volume centered on the best-known kami and their stories of betrayed trust, tangled romance, and epic battle. KumiShire, a Florence-based artist specializing in Japanese folklore and fantasy, is positioning it as a faithful adaptation rather than a loose reinterpretation, with stretch goals aimed at expanding the volume further. It’s a niche but ambitious undertaking — translating primary myth into serialized comic form for an audience most of whom have likely never encountered these stories directly.

Day-1 note: $536 from 13 backers against a $2,916 goal (18% funded) with 29 days to go — modest early traction for a specialty mythology title with a long runway still ahead.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.

Creator: Bobby May (Cortney Petty) · Location: Murfreesboro, TN · Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy · Goal: $5,000 · Raised: $156 (3% funded) · Backers: 3 · Avg pledge: $52.00 · End date: September 23, 2026 · Prior campaign history: one prior Kickstarter project; no confirmed fulfillment complaints turned up in available research, though this creator’s limited online presence beyond that listing means the finding is provisional rather than exhaustive.

Cambriendu is a sci-fi/fantasy series pitting the alien Vritians against the monstrous Fiends amid an energy-driven apocalypse, and this campaign funds issue #2 after creator Bobby May already completed and printed issue #1 independently. That’s a real structural difference from most debut campaigns on this slate — backers here are funding a sequel to a book that already exists and shipped, not a first issue with nothing yet in hand. The premise leans pulp-adventure with a hard sci-fi energy-crisis hook underneath it.

Day-1 note: $156 from 3 backers against a $5,000 goal (3% funded) with 29 days to go — the slowest start on the non-Comics-I-Like slate, though an already-delivered issue #1 gives backers real proof of execution to weigh against the slow open.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.

Creator: Kevisyde Global LLC · Location: Memphis, TN · Genre: Horror · Goal: $200 · Raised: $142 (71% funded) · Backers: 6 · Avg pledge: $23.67 · End date: September 23, 2026 · Prior campaign history: six prior Kickstarter projects, including Arkfyre, Mad Pops, Terminus: Corvak City, and Hallowfien; no confirmed fulfillment complaints turned up in available research.

Skinshifter is a horror graphic novel built around demonic pursuit, the latest entry from Kevisyde Global’s growing slate of genre titles. The publisher runs multiple ongoing series in parallel rather than betting everything on one property, and Skinshifter reads as part of that broader horror-and-genre catalog rather than a standalone experiment. Chapter 1 sets up the pursuit premise without over-explaining the demonic mechanics driving it, leaving room for the mystery to build across future chapters.

Day-1 note: $142 from 6 backers against a modest $200 goal — already 71% funded with 29 days to go, on pace to clear its bar comfortably.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.

Creator: Paul McMorran / Hero Hotel Comics · Location: Dorval, Canada · Genre: Superhero Comedy · Goal: CA$649 (~$468 USD) · Raised: CA$111 (~$80 USD) (17% funded) · Backers: 5 · Avg pledge: ~$16.00 USD · End date: September 13, 2026 · Prior campaign history: one prior Kickstarter project.

Revenge Guy follows Jerome Kenny, an engineer who gains control of a weaponized helmet after a workplace accident, then loses his family to the villain responsible — setting up the choice between quiet grief and becoming a costumed avenger that gives the book its title. McMorran describes this as a re-launch with a tighter script and additional pages compared to the character’s limited 2025 debut, aimed at readers who want a feel-good superhero romp without excess grimdark baggage. The art is described as complete and print-ready, with the campaign covering production and initial copies.

Day-1 note: about $80 USD from 5 backers against a roughly $468 USD goal (17% funded) with 19 days to go — a slow open for a re-launch, though a completed, print-ready book behind it lowers the execution risk for backers weighing whether to jump in.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.

Creator: Scott Dorian Dancer · Location: Gloucester City, NJ · Genre: Crime/Superhero · Goal: $2,500 · Raised: $14 (1% funded) · Backers: 1 · Avg pledge: $14.00 · End date: September 23, 2026 · Prior campaign history: this is Dancer’s first Kickstarter project.

Bright is a grounded crime-and-superhero story set in Philadelphia, favoring street-level stakes over cape-and-cowl spectacle. It’s Scott Dorian Dancer’s first Kickstarter, and the pitch leans into a specific regional identity rather than a generic city-that-could-be-anywhere setting. Details beyond the core premise are still thin this early in the campaign’s run.

Day-1 note: $14 from 1 backer against a $2,500 goal (1% funded) with 29 days to go — the slowest start of the entire slate, though 29 days still on the clock leaves real room to build.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.

1. Lady Savage #2 Comic Book by Gary Petras — Dreamscape Publishing — $341 — 15 backers — Goal $1,000 — 34% funded — Avg pledge $22.73 — Pulp Jungle Adventure — Funding, 19 days to go

2. Mysteries Beneath the Surface — David Allen — $101 — 5 backers — Goal $6,000 — 2% funded — Avg pledge $20.20 — Adult Fantasy — Funding, 35 days to go

Creator: Gary Petras / Dreamscape Publishing · Location: Bethlehem, PA · Genre: Pulp Jungle Adventure · Goal: $1,000 · Raised: $341 (34% funded) · Backers: 15 · Avg pledge: $22.73 · End date: September 13, 2026 · Prior campaign history: 14 prior Kickstarter projects; issue #1 (”Footsteps in Eden”) funded successfully in 2025 ($3,220 against a $3,000 goal, 87 backers), and no confirmed fulfillment complaints turned up in available research (see Unfulfilled Prior Campaigns below).

Lady Savage #2 picks up immediately where issue #1 left off: the title character races into the jungle to rescue Nigel Hawthorne, a plane-crash survivor and old flame, from the three Amazon warriors who captured him. It’s a pulp jungle-adventure in the classic mold — physical peril, a rescue-mission structure, a cast already established in issue #1 — presented with the cheesecake-adjacent cover art typical of that genre’s pulp-revival corner. This is a direct continuation for readers already invested in the character rather than a fresh entry point. Adult content — 18+ only.

Day-1 note: $341 from 15 backers against a $1,000 goal (34% funded) with 19 days to go — steady, unhurried progress for a numbered sequel with an established, if modest, backer base.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.

Creator: David Allen · Genre: Adult Fantasy · Goal: $6,000 · Raised: $101 (2% funded) · Backers: 5 · Avg pledge: $20.20 · End date: September 29, 2026 · Prior campaign history: this is Allen’s first Kickstarter project.

Mysteries Beneath the Surface is an adult fantasy series built around erotic transformation, launching as Book 1 of a planned nine-book run. It’s creator David Allen’s first Kickstarter, betting on a long-arc serialized structure right out of the gate rather than testing the water with a single self-contained issue. The transformation-fantasy angle places it in a specific corner of adult comics with its own dedicated readership, distinct from the pulp-adventure NSFW entry elsewhere on today’s slate. Adult content — 18+ only.

Day-1 note: $101 from 5 backers against a $6,000 goal (2% funded) with 35 days to go — the slowest start on the full slate, NSFW or otherwise, though a nine-book planned run gives this one a longer horizon to build an audience than a single-issue campaign would.

Cover and interior art at the Kickstarter page.