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It's hard to imagine how long this whole new pulp wave has been going on, but it has been about five years. This is because one of the first projects, Cirsova Magazine, is about to reach its 5th year anniversary and has decided to celebrate it with it a big blow-out.
As a reader since the beginning, I have to say it has been quite inspiring to see it grow such a rabid audience doing nothing more than offering constant action and adventure content of all shapes and sizes. It has easily shown that the pulp-style story still has a place in today's world.
Cirsova hasn't made a kickstarter in a while, they haven't needed to, but this time they opted to go big for the fifth anniversary.
The campaign description:
Happy 5th Anniversary to Cirsova Magazine!
Hard to believe that it has been 5 years since our first issue back in spring of 2016... since then, we've published 15 issues, three specials, Wild Stars, Illustrated Stark, Duel Visions, Endless Summer, and Mongoose and Meerkat Volume 1. It's been a wild ride!
We haven't always crowdfunded for our magazine, but this seemed like a special occasion and it will give us an opportunity to test out a new fulfillment partner we're looking into.
So, what's in store for 2021?
Wild Stars V: The Artomique Paradigm
We're serializing Michael Tierney's newest Wild Stars novel, The Artomique Paradigm! Earth is now in contact with their intergalactic cousins in the Wild Stars! But during recent conflicts with aliens and pirates, the Artomiques, fascist refugees from an alternate time-line, have become Terra’s dominant faction using stolen Wild Stars technology!
This newest installment in the Wild Stars saga brings together a number of threads from Michael's 2000s Wild Stars comic run and ties them into the newer adventures published recently in Time Warmageddon and Wild Star Rising.
The Artomique Paradigm is the featured cover story for our 5th Anniversary Issue.
Cover A, by Anton Oxenuk, and Cover B, by Genzoman.
Paul O'Connor's Badaxe!
We're branching into new territory at Cirsova Magazine... We've acquired the rights to reprint Paul O'Connor's sword and sorcery comic, Badaxe!
An evil god of war has his minions scouring the land for a boy-child born with a certain mark. When found, this child must be killed, for the god Badaxe can only be slain by one with mark!
These comics are being reprinted for the first time and digitally restored!
Jim Breyfogle's Mongoose and Meerkat!
Kat and Mangos's adventures continue with The Grain Merchant of Alomar! After several odd jobs, Kat and Mangos have finally arrived in the city of Alomar, where they must try to make a name for themselves as sellswords. They've set up in spare rooms of a wealthy merchant who has no idea they’re living there... even after he’s hired them!
Robert Zoltan's Rogues of Merth!
We're pretty excited to also be running a new Rogues of Merth novelette from Robert Zoltan. If you're a fan of Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser or wish you were if not for some of the griminess of the post-60s Leiber stories, Dareon and Blue should be up your alley.
In this new adventure, Dareon and Blue, the Rogues of Merth, find themselves in the crosshairs of an old foe! They must find and bring him the Book of Dark Sighs, or Blue’s love will perish at his hand!
Also in this issue...
Devil’s Deal
By MICHAEL WIESENBERG
A gambler and a wannabe cardsharp, Henry finally has an Ace up his sleeve: the ability to see a moment into the future—a diabolical gift from the Devil Himself!
My Name is John Carter (Part 9)
By JAMES HUTCHINGS
James continues his longform adaptation of A Princess of Mars in this issue.
...Illustrations?
Yes, for the first time ever, Cirsova Magazine will have illustrations.
DarkFilly, who did the interior art for Mongoose and Meerkat: Pursuit Without Asking is illustrating The Artomique Paradigm and The Grain Merchant of Allomar. [The originals of these are available to backers].
Robert Zoltan has provided an illustration for his story, The Book of Dark Sighs.
Is... that Chen on the Cover?
Yes.
We got permission from Team Shanghai Alice for me to include original Touhou fanart on the cover of our anniversary issue.
This variant is probably only going to be available through this Kickstarter or via direct sales.
If you want to buy my Chen painting, it's available as a tier.
There is more on the page, but that is the gist as far as basic content for the anniversary goes. As you can see, there is quite a lot!
It's hard to believe it's been five years since this whole rollercoaster began, but it's not quite over yet. This pulp jalopy has got millions of miles left to go.
You can find Cirsova's kickstarter here!
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