KICKSTARTED!

Our Kickstarter ended last night at 10pm, and there was mild celebration here at Casa De Awesome. The gracious donation early in the day by Michael Firoved made us reach our goal far ahead of schedule. So instead of a New Years Eve countdown style party of excitement and thrills, we just sat back and watched the deadline pass and the last couple of donations trickle in. 

By the time it finally ended, we closed out at $57 dollars above our goal. It's not much, but it could be one extra shirt, a better mixer, or even help pay for a table at a convention. We still haven't decided where it's all going to go just yet, but you can expect to see a lot of our new items in our store in the coming months.

We just want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

To all of our followers, to everyone that tweeted/liked/shared, and to everyone that continues to do so. We have tried to make this show feel different from other comic book podcasts, and we are glad that the response continues to be so positive.

After a month and a half of Kickstarter spamming, we can finally return to our regular updates and comic book insights.

YEAR 3, HERE WE COME!

Indie Spotlight #5: Ape Entertainment

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Chris, Dylan, Nicole and Vicky review five titles sent to us by Ape Entertainment.

1. Pocket God: Gem of Life #3 
2. Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Wonder From Down Under 2
3. Shrek 4 Prequel
4. Little Grean Men by Jay Fosgitt
5. Kung Fu Panda: It's Elemental & Other Stories.

We talk about the good, the bad and the awesome! And while we didn't like all of them, each one of us had a book we really enjoyed. Kudos to this company for making strong and varied comics for kids of all ages. Each book also has a backup story that lets very talented artists and writers strut their stuff with these characters. Do yourself a favor and visit their website. 

Theme music by Kyle Hilmoe of How to Make Swords.

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Again, we would like to thank Josh Finney and Kat Rocha of 01 Publishing for sponsoring this episode.

Their new book Utopiates has been selling out continually on Amazon. We aren't going to take all the credit, but we will take some of it.

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And last but not least, don't forget to check out our Kickstarter! It's been up for nine days and we have already raised over $300. We still have plenty of excellent incentives left and we will be rolling out more as the weeks go by.

If you have a cover photo on Facebook that isn't doing anything right now, we would love it if you would show your support and let people know about us.

Thank you all for your continued support, we will see you back here in a few weeks time when we set about the possibly impossible task of comparing David Mack's Kabuki: Circle of Blood with Kabuki: Metamorphosis.

Creator Interview: Joko Budiono

Thank you to everyone for your patience. This episode took a little longer than expected, but it is well worth it.

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Chris, Dylan, Keith, and Nicole do an in-person interview with Joko Budiono about his new wordless graphic novel: Teddy-1. He talks about world building, his lengthy drawing process, and the very unusual way he got into drawing comics. This episode is worth it just to hear his story about crowd funding through Kickstarter.

Joko is an amazingly humble artist and even though this is his first graphic novel, this is the work of a truly seasoned artist.

And we can't stress this enough, BUY THIS BOOK!

The intro song is "Mayan Pilot" by Splashdown.