Newly Upgraged Crowdfunding Platform, Indiegogo Readies To Launch Billy Tucci Graphic Novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Wednesday, October 22nd at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT.
Take a Look at the PREVIEW PRELAUNCH PAGE by Clicking HERE!
For the first time ever, Eisner Award winner and Inkpot recipient Billy Tucci brings to reality the character that inspired his legendary comic book character, Shi. In the past thirty-years Shi has garnered accolades, sold millions of comics and along with Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and Vampirella, launched the Bad Girl genre.
But this 48-page, full color graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior explores Tucci’s first creation and in her most raw and savage form.
Set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, where the embattled Yakuza turn to American, ex-pat killers to do their dirtiest of work.
Led by Vietnam Veteran, “The Wolf”, these Yanks follow no Bushidō, just their own brutality and a twisted loyalty that buys power.
But not everyone stayed bought.
Enter Ran Moban. Orphaned as a child, trafficked and vanished at twenty. Scarred by the Wolf as a teenager, Ran’s whereabouts are unknown.
That is until now as Ran has returned to Tokyo carrying steel and thirsting for vengeance.
Set in1993, Ran is everything Tucci always wanted to do with Shi but never dared. In all its 1990’s Bad Girl glory, Ran introduces the world to the character who started it all in this 48-page story of vengeance set within Tokyo’s neon licked rain-slick streets stained with blood split by the Yakuza.
Revenge of the Warrior is a sexy, no holds barred, neon-noir samurai macabre that pulls no punches and offers no mercy was originally scheduled to launch on Indiegogo on Thursday, October 16th, but due to the crowdfunding platform’s complete, and new user-friendly, upgrade Indiegogo was not operational in time. But all is fixed and Ran is now “go for launch” and fans can sign up for the Prelaunch Page here for a free first-24-hour reward to all backers of physical perks.
Take a Look at the PREVIEW PRELAUNCH PAGE by Clicking HERE!
SHI: GATECRASHER FULFILLMENT FILLS USPS PALLETS!
Fulfillment has begun for Shi: Gatecrasher, as Crusade Comics has been busy signing books, packing and shipping product out daily to backers from over 50 countries worldwide.
SHI NYCC SPECIAL EDITIONS NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.BILLYTUCCI.COM!
CRUSADE OFFERS A LIMITED AMOUNT FOR THOSE WHO COULDN’T ATTEND COMIC-CON, JUST CLICK HERE!
CRUSADE CELEBRATES SHI: SENRYAKU’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH NYCC EXCLUSIVE JIM LEE COVER!
Now that the behemoth of all conventions, the New York Comic Con is over, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and company are offering some very rare NYCC exclusives the GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER & SENRYAKU NYCC EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS on Crusade’s official webstore.
For the first time ever, Crusade is publishing a special limited edition of Shi: Senryaku #1 exclusively for the NYCC sporting a cover by the legendary, Jim Lee! Also offered for Senryaku’s 30th Anniversary are extremely rare Metal, Bamboo, Foil and Pearl Exclusives at the con and through https://billytucci.com.
Senryaku is Crusade Comics’ groundbreaking, critically acclaimed series written by comics’ legend and creator of DC Comics’ Amethyst and Blue Devil, Gary Cohn. The book uniquely details Shi’s upbringing and training through thirty-six self-contained Art of War “stratagems”. Stratagems lushly showcased and illustrated by many of the industry’s greatest talents, including Jim Lee, Frank Frazetta, Adam Hughes, George Perez, Jeff Smith, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Joe Quesada and Billy Tucci.
LIMITED GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER NEW YORK COMIC CON EXCLUSIVE DEBUTS WITH SPECIAL SIGNED AND NUMBERED COVERS!
Limited to just 199 signed and numbered editions, the Giant-Sized Shi: Gatecrasher NYCC Exclusive also includes a certificate of authenticity. This massive 11” X 17”, 28-page, black and white Pure Line edition is Part 2 of Tucci’s latest graphic novel. Crusade Comics is also offering the book in a reduced-price, limited package bundle with San Diego Comic Con Part 1, which was offered at the SDCC.
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 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 $1,700,000.00.