First off - we're very sorry for taking a while to get things resolved and announced to everyone.  There's no good excuse for how long it took to get this update up.  We hope you can forgive the slow resolution.  

As you'll remember - we put out the poll to see how many fans wanted us to color the book.  86% of people said yes - so it was a pretty overwhelming percentage.  That said - we moved to books to a colorist with a reasonable deadline of 5 weeks to finish the coloring.  Unfortunately the colorist had some personal issues that they were not forthcoming about and the end result is they didn't complete the book.

We found a new colorist to finish the coloring and he is currently pushing everything forward with regular updates and a target completion date.  The pages he has turned in look great - even better than we were expecting.  And we can't wait to show everyone the whole thing.

So what we are doing is moving forward with the new color team and keeping the books ready to go to press as soon as they finish.  We can't really do much to make up for the unexpected slowdown.  But we did want to give everyone a free digital pulp comic to check out as a thank you for your patience.  So - here's a free digital copy of "Tales from the CursedVerse" to check out and read on your favorite devices.  You can download it by going to our website here:

https://www.americanmythology.net/product-page/cursedverse-1-digital-pdf-edition

And enter this coupon at checkout:

ROSATHANKS

We hope you enjoy the comic and stay tuned for updates on Rosa Blanca coming soon!

Thank you to everyone that helped us make The Legend Of La Rosa Blanca a success here on ComicTopia!  We are really thankful to have fans who believe this will be a story worthy of being in your collections.  We think you are going to love this book and we can't wait to share it with you.

Now...on that front - we didn't get to the stretch goals we posted.  One of the big ones was that at $10k we would have The Legend of La Rosa Blanca colored instead of it being a B&W comic.  We really were hoping to get there because as much as we love the feel of B&W - nothing beats a really nice color book.  

So we want to ask this question to all of our backers.  Would you prefer that we go ahead and just print and ship The Legend of La Rosa Blanca as it was solicited in black & white?  Or would you rather see us list this on Kickstarter and try to achieve the stretch goals we set out to make?  Now to be clear - if we achieve the goal on Kickstarter all of our  BackerKit supports would ALSO GET THOSE REWARDS.  We would not even consider this unless each of you received the same benefit.  

So by this reasoning - if we ran the campaign on Kickstarter and it hit the stretch amount - all of the copies would be colored.  I should mention that if we did this - we probably would not be shipping until around December (assume 60 - 90 days for a colorist to complete it).  So the trade off is that it would take a little longer to get the books.

Anyway - we want to know what you think.  Please fill out the poll and we'll use our backer feedback to determine how to proceed. 

Thank you!!

We're in the final hours of the incredible ComicTopia program here at Backerkit!  The Legend of La Rosa Blanca has funded and we're striving to achieve our first stretch goal.  We'd like to ask everyone to please share out the project with comic collecting friends and family who might be interested.  Every share helps us to get the word out about this project.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far!  We're excited to take the next steps with La Rosa Blanca and we'll be keeping you in the loop every step of the way. 

Here's a fun thing we wanted to share with everyone.  This was the original character sketch that Gordon Purell did to start the development of La Rosa Blanca.  It's fun to see the genesis of this cool new swashbuckling character! 

Thank you ComicTopia fans!  The Legend of La Rosa Blanca has reached our funding level and we are making this new comic book!  We're excited that you'll be able to see the incredible work everyone put into making La Rosa Blanca.  And we're especially appreciative that you helped us make ComicTopia a big success!

Now we are focusing on our first stretch goal.  When we exceed $7500 raised we are going to add a collectors trading card featuring both versions of the amazing Lerix artwork! The two sided trading card will be something very special to add to your collection knowing you made it possible. 

We also wanted to let everyone know that we added a bunch of new add-on offerings based on fan response.  Many of our other swashbuckling adventure comics are now available as part of the project.  Please pop in and take a look to see if there are any back issues you need to fill holes in your collections.  The books are only available while supplies last.  We don't have much left of those books but we are happy to get them to fans who want them!

We also want to remind everyone that our cross collaboration partners - the folks at Dynamite - are still working toward funding.  If you purchase both La Rosa Blanca and the new volume of Karma you'll get two awesome extra items - full sized custom tarot cards featuring the Lerix cover art for La Rosa Blanca and the Stjepan Sejic cover art for Karma.  Two very cool collectibles!