MONTE CRISTO, a graphic novel of elegant revenge

Surveys coming next week! Late pre-orders now live on Backerkit.
6 months ago – Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 02:05:40 PM

Hi everyone!

Yow -- how has it been two weeks already since this campaign ended?? The Backerkit surveys are just about ready to send, we're just waiting on Backerkit to review everything to make sure it is all good to go. We haven't gotten their greenlight yet, but as soon as we do, we'll get those out to you. Hopefully that will be on Monday or Tuesday. (Who knows -- if someone actually works weekends there, maybe even this weekend...)

In the meantime, you may notice that the Pre-order store link is now live on the top of the campaign page -- if you missed the campaign, or if you know anyone who wanted to pledge but came in late, you can find most of the campaign items available at the Preorder store here: 

Granted, late orders don't include the Stretch Goal bonuses, but that's the lucrative incentive for folks to pledge during the campaign! We have to set our production count for these items by the time of the campaign deadline, hence the "reward" of backing the campaign early...

We'll post another update as soon as the surveys go out. Stay tuned! And have a great weekend!

THANK YOU!!!
6 months ago – Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 05:10:04 PM

Woot! 

Thank you everybody for your awesome support and interest in this project! Jordan sends his thanks as well -- he did a podcast interview earlier this afternoon (link available in the previous update) on top of a bunch of other appearances and events over the past two weeks, so this is a great way to wrap up his stateside tour! 😎 Plus, Ubisoft just announced ANOTHER Prince of Persia game coming in May: THE ROGUE!

It looks like a great nod to Jordan's original smooth, hand-animated, side-scrolling game with a character story at it's center that started the whole legacy!

We'll get the pledge manager set up on Backerkit as quickly as we can so that surveys can be sent out. That usually takes about 2 weeks, so you will probably see them around the 26th. We'll post an update with all of the pertinent info at that time.

In the meantime, we've got a celebration to kick off...

Thanks, everyone! Have a great weekend!

Live Stream with Jordan Mechner TODAY! (In 15 mins!)
6 months ago – Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:48:24 AM

Hey everyone!

You blew past the final $78,000 stretch goal – meaning we’ve unlocked the Challenge Coin! This campaign is going to be absolutely PACKED with cool stuff!

Speaking of awesome things, creator Jordan Mechner is doing a live-stream interview with Al Mega over on the Comic Crusader’s YouTube channel at 12:00 pm PST (that's in 15 minutes)! Sorry for the short notice, but if you follow our social channels, you maybe already saw that news...

Be sure to watch it live here:

An exciting way to wrap up the campaign! Only 5 more hours to go... 

The final stretch! Only 24 hours left!
6 months ago – Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 04:33:32 PM

Hi everyone!

Just a quick update to say THANK YOU for taking this campaign as far as we've gotten so far, and for unlocking so many stretch goals! SIX goals down and ONE MORE TO GO!

If you've supported any of our previous campaigns, you know that these 2" metal coins are really nice, and after releasing over 20 of them tied to earlier campaign titles, they have become somewhat collectible. So this will be a great addition to the collection... if we can hit that goal before the closing bell at 5pm PST tomorrow (Friday). Only $5k away, so it seems doable...!

Thanks everyone! Please spread the word on this last day and we'll see you on the other side!

The final week...
7 months ago – Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 10:32:58 AM

Hi everyone!

Hope you're having a relaxing weekend. We just wanted to hop on briefly (realizing with guilt that we haven't posted an update since the start of the campaign) to say THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THE MOMENTUM GOING! 😊

Together, you have unlocked five stretch goals, adding a triptych of linen cardstock prints by Mario Albert to every physical pledge, as well as a diecut bookmark!

Coming up quickly, the next stretch goal will add red foil gilding to the page edges of the limited edition. If you're not sure what "gilding" is, it is when the edges of the pages are colored or coated with a foil, sort of like this:

In our case, the edges of the limited edition books will be coated with a cool red metallic foil to compliment the red logo... Trust us, it'll be sweet. And at this point, it seems like a pretty safe bet to be unlocked, perhaps by tomorrow or Tuesday!

Beyond that, we have one more cool stretch goal planned... we'll reveal it once this next one is unlocked, but as a (not-so-)subtle hint, we think our returning backers who have been collecting our coins will be excited... 😉

Please keep spreading the word, and let's make these last 6 days outstanding!