DEADPOOL/AVENGELYNE CREATOR’S LIMITED, EXCLUSIVE & METAL EDITIONS ARE NOW LIVE
ON INDIEGOGO!
Rob Liefeld and Colorist Ezequiel Dominguez’s Striking Shi: Gatecrasher Limited Edition!
EXTREME RED METAL SHI!
Last evening, and with much fanfare, Shi-creator Billy Tucci has unveiled legendary comics’ creator, Rob Liefeld’s special Shi: Gatecrasher Editions, a pair of limited variants exclusive to Indiegogo. The Liefeld Solid Gold Variant and the premiere Extreme Red Metal Shi Edition, featuring an actual stainless steel cover are now set as the campaign’s featured perk.
GATECRASHER CLOSES IN ON $60,000.00 TO UNLOCK NEXT STRETCH GOAL!
Crusade Comics’ 10th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher, featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the world’s greatest heroes as unlocked its first free Stretch Goal reward, to expand the 48-page full-color, graphic novel to 56 pages. Now, on the campaign’s sixth day, Gatecrasher is on the verge of breaking its $60,000.00 Stretch Goal and rewarding all backers (who choose a physical perk) to also receive a free digital edition of the book with cover gallery extras.
Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of comic book character collision!
Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.
Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 9, 2025.
About Billy Tucci
Inkpot Award recipient Billy Tucci is a cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai saga Shi. Through his company, Crusade Fine Arts, Shi has been printed in five languages and sold more than 3 million comic books. The graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology contributed to the Eisner Award Winning, Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds and Love Is Love. Billy has also earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and his DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The Lost Battalion featured the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of Japanese American soldiers. His earnest retelling of the Christmas story in A Child Is Born has quietly turned into an international blockbuster, winning the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award. Billy’s critically acclaimed Miss Fury: Joy Division saw the return of the Golden Age Icon for Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00.