Just Click HERE To Get Your Ultra-Rare Comic-Con: The Cruise Special Variants!
It’s all aboard this Saturday for the start of Comic-Con International’s Second Annual San Diego Comic-Con: The Cruise! Heralded as “the ultimate fan adventure where the world of popular arts come to life like never before. Comic-Con: The Cruise is proud to bring a one-of-a-kind fan-driven experience to the high seas.”
While SDCC is known worldwide as the “mecca of all comic conventions”, that boasts over 175,000 artists, exhibitors, celebrities, and lottery chosen attendees, Comic-Con: The Cruise is reserved to just 1,800 lucky fans. This intimate 4-day luxury cruise ensures the most intimate and casual interaction between guests and attendees.
DIDN’T WIN THE CRUISE LOTTERY TO ATTEND? NO PROBLEM, CRUSADE HAS YOU COVERED!
But for those Tucci Troopers who cannot attend Comic-Con: The Cruise fear not as Crusade have added a limited number of these exclusives via their webstore, https://billytucci.com/store-3/!
Crusade Comics’ Billy and Deborah Tucci will be special guests and have produced a package of very rare specials aboard including limited Comic-Con: The Cruise interacting covers exclusives:
1 • SDCC: The Cruise Shi: Gatecrasher Part 1 and Part 2 Pure Line Edition Bundle! Bundled for convenience! Grab both SHI: GATECRASHER Editions of the SDCC The Cruise #1 AND #2 Specials! Intersecting covers of both editions feature SHI on one and Ran on the other! Gatecrasher takes the reader on a thrilling adventure across the many incredible decades, trends, and genres of comic books… A funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran, experience war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, and you guessed it – zombie bad girls! Features Usagi Yojimbo and Lady Death! Color cover, 2 books, 28 & 32 B/W pages each. Limited to just 25 numbered sets, signed by artist and SHI creator, Billy Tucci! $50 USD
2 • SDCC: The Cruise Shi: Gatecrasher Part 1 Pure Line Edition: Featuring a sultry bikini inspired Shi sunning herself casually and coyly atop the Lido Deck. Limited to just 25. 28-pages, F/C covers and B/W interiors. $30 USD
3 • SDCC: The Cruise Shi: Gatecrasher Part 2 Pure Line Edition: Featuring Tucci’s latest femme-fatale Ran, sensually lounging in the sun poolside with Ana Ishikawa. Limited to just 25. F/C covers and B/W interiors 32 pages. $30 USD
4 • SDCC: The Cruise Shi: Gatecrasher Part 1 Metal Cover Edition BUNDLE: Bundled for convenience! Sleek stainless-steel covers both issues of the SDCC-The Cruise #1 AND #2 special editions! Intersecting covers of SHI and RAN, 28 b/w pages, limited to 20 numbered sets, signed by artist and SHI creator, Billy Tucci! $175 USD
5 • SDCC: The Cruise Shi: Gatecrasher Part 1 Metal Cover Edition: This ultra rare exclusive (limited to just 10 editions) features an actual signed and numbered stainless-steel cover featuring a sultry bikini inspired Shi sunning herself casually and coyly atop the Lido Deck. 28-pages, F/C covers and B/W interiors. $99 USD
6 • SDCC: The Cruise Ran Gatecrasher Part 2 Metal Cover Edition: This ultra rare exclusive (limited to just 10 editions) features an actual signed and numbered stainless-steel cover featuring Tucci’s latest femme-fatale Ran, sensually lounging in the sun poolside with Ana Ishikawa. F/C metal cover and B/W interiors 32 pages. $99 USD
7 • SDCC: The Cruise Ran Gatecrasher Blank Sketch Cover Edition: This special fan-favorite features the entire 52-page, Gatecrasher Pureline Edition ready for a one-of-a-kind, Billy Tucci or your favorite artist cover illustration. 56-pages stamped with purple-SDCC: The Cruise logo, blank Sketch cover and B/W interiors. Limited to just 100 editions! $30 USD
8 • SDCC: The Cruise Shi Gatecrasher Original Shi and Ran Cover Artwork By Billy Tucci: The ultimate exclusive, original cover artwork by Shi and Ran creator Billy Tucci. Both covers are offered singly, or to one lucky fan, bundled together for an appreciated discount-price.$3,400 USD (bundled) $1,800 USD (individual)
9 • SDCC: The Cruise Prints: 1”x17” premium card stock print, featuring SHI and RAN, lounging on the cruise ship deck. Get them bundled or separately. All Signed by artist and SHI creator, Billy Tucci!
A Choice Amount Of All These Limited Specials Are Offered Exclusively HERE!
For those Tucci Troopers who cannot attend Comic-Con: The Cruise fear not as Crusade have added a limited number of these exclusives via their webstore, https://billytucci.com/store-3/
SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON: THE CRUISE!
While SDCC is known worldwide as the “mecca of all comic conventions”, that boasts over 175,000 artists, exhibitors, celebrities, and lottery chosen attendees, Comic-Con: The Cruise is reserved to just 1,800 lucky fans. This intimate 4-day luxury cruise ensures the most intimate and casual interaction between guests and attendees.
Make way this weekend aboard Celebrity Cruise’s Millennium-class, Constellation. The luxury line is exclusively reserved for Comic-Con: The Cruise that fuses fan-favorite element of the SDCC community with unique and immersive experiences designed exclusively for fans.
Whether you’re a lifelong fan or exploring for the first time, Comic-Con: The Cruise offers something extraordinary for everyone. Dive into exclusive activities, including interactive panels and workshops, nightly themed parties, Artists’ Alley showcases, talent interaction, poolside events, exhibitor showcases, exclusive merch, autograph and photograph sessions, and so much more. All of this is wrapped in the camaraderie, creativity, and unforgettable experience unique to Comic-Con: The Cruise!
RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR #1 KICKSTARTER IS NOW OPEN TO LATE PLEDGES!
Click HERE To Pledge For The Character Who Inspired Shi’s Debut In Her First Solo Graphic Novel!
RAN #1: A GRAPHIC NOVEL 35 YEARS IN THE MAKING…
Set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s battle for justice against American sex-trafficking, ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.
This sexy, 48-page, full-color neon-noir samurai epic will also be available on Indiegogo February 11, 2026.
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, Sakura and Gatecrasher. Crusade has also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,800,000.00 since 2020.