CRUSADE’S 11th KICKSTARTER FEATURES THE LEGENDARY WALTER SIMONSON & COMIC SUPERSTAR VARIANT COVERS!
A GRAPHIC NOVEL 35-YEARS IN THE MAKING
Revenge of the Warrior is set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, and features the character and story that inspired Tucci’s legendary Shi.
“Ran is very near and dear to my heart by being my “first” and the character that eventually evolved into Shi.” Stated writer/artist Billy Tucci. “We’re going to go all-out ‘Bad Girls’ on this one and I cannot wait to share her decade’s long story of vengeance and triumph!”
Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s war against a human-trafficking gang of American ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.
Billy Tucci’s latest graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior debuts on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter this coming Thursday, November 20th, at 7pm EST/4pm PST. The short 22-day campaign will close at 11:59pm EST on December 22nd.
RAN INDIEGOGO PASSES $75K BEFORE CLOSE!
Ran launched on Indiegogo last month and reached its initial funding goal in less than ten minutes. The 23-day campaign closed this past Friday with over $75,000.00 in returns and the campaign’s first four Stretch Goals; the Ran Hardcover Trading Card, Billy Tucci Ran Mini-Print, Dan Lawlis Gilded Variant Trading Card, and the Leandro Oliveira Black Racer Vinyl Sticker all unlocked. Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. All Stretch Goals come FREE to all Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk.
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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. 1, 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.