COFFIN COMICS’ LAUNCHES LA MUERTA NEMESIS #1 FEATURING SHI!
Coffin Launch Campaign Goes Live March 20th 6pm Mountain Time (MT), 8pm Eastern Time (ET) Here!
Today, a new chapter in Crusade Comics’ flagship title, Shi begins as the multi-Einser Award nominee enters the Coffin Comics Universe as Billy Tucci’s sensual samurai crosses over in Coffin’s latest graphic novel, La Muerta: Nemesis #1.
WHO IS LA MUERTA?
When an innocent child witnesses her mother’s brutal killing, Maria Diaz can promise only one thing – vengeance! But this is no simple murder. Maria must again become the street vigilante La Muerta and track the killer to New Orleans. There, she is plunged into a shadowy world of secrets and sacrificial bloodshed, which leads her on a collision course with Madame Midnight, the hoodoo princess of New Orleans!
BONUS STORY! For the first time ever, La Muerta battles the one and only SHI! A tale of blazing bullets and martial arts madness!
“Brian Pulido, his wife Francisca and all the Coffin Crew have been great friends to Deborah Tucci and I for over thirty years and have supported Shi as if were their own.” Stated Tucci. “It is truly an honor to have Shi play a role in La Muerta: Nemesis #1, and this book is a must-have for every Shi collector. PLEASE back this project and support the very best of us!”
Also, as a SPECIAL BONUS, everyone who backs the Nemesis #1 in the campaign’s first 24 hours will receive a brand new La Muerta Citadel Coin FREE!
JOIN BILLY TUCCI TODAY FOR THE LA MUERTA PRE-LAUNCH LIVE STREAM ON YOUTUBE!
Watch the La Meurta Pre-Launch Live Stream HERE TONIGHT at 7pm Eastern Time!
Join PopXP hosts’ Billy and Deborah Tucci as they celebrate LIVE Coffin Comics’ latest crowdfunding blockbuster, La Muerta: Nemesis #1, with a pre-launch party on the PopXP! YouTube Channel.
The pair will discuss La Muerta: Nemesis #1 launching today, March 20, 2025 and the incredible success of the franchise, Coffin’s new crowdfunding platform COFFIN LAUNCH and how Shi somehow invaded the COFFIN UNIVERSE!
SHI: GATECRASHER (FEATURING COFFIN COMICS’ LADY DEATH) CROWDFUNDING SURPASSES $205,000.00!
Kickstarter Exclusive Is Now Open to Late Pledges Here!
Pledging Continues On Indiegogo Indemand Here!
Momentum continues for Shi: Gatecrasher!, as over 2,300 backers have propelled Crusade Comics’ 11th crowdfunding campaign past $205,000.00.
Shi: Gatecrasher! is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain heroes!
The Long Island-based publisher’s dual-beneficiary campaign as total returns on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo have made Gatecrasher Crusade’s fastest-paced and seventh-straight original Shi graphic novel to top six-figures.
THE FOLLOWING STRETCH GOALS HAVE ALREADY BEEN UNLOCKED AND ARE FREE TO ALL OUR BACKERS WHO HAVE CHOSEN A PHYSICAL PERK!
• STRETCH GOAL: EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES:
• STRETCH GOAL: FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK
• STRETCH GOAL: SHI, LADY DEATH & TARPE MILLS B/W TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT!
• STRETCH GOAL: STAN SAKAI USAGI/SHI TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD!
ª STRETCH GOAL: BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD!
• “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: IRENE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: RAN DEBUT BOOKMARK!
• STRETCH GOAL: ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADINGCARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: RAN ORIGINAL ART TRADING CARD
• STRETCH GOAL: SHI: GATECRASHER COMIC-SIZED, ONE-SHEET 2025 CALENDAR
• STRETCH GOAL: RAN WAY OF THE WARRIOR #1 “WHAT IF?” COVER TRADING CARD: ALMOST THERE!
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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,750,000.00.
You can find Billy Tucci on X, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci
Visit https://www.billytucci.com