Ahoy backers!

Thank you for your continued support <3

Melissa is hard at work on Bouquets & Death Rays. We're on track to release next year. We've got a spoiler-free preview below!

Natalie and I will be going through the script for a final lettering pass in the coming months as we're ready to wrap up production.

PS - do you like poetry? Or are you a fan of art books? My sister (and Arledge Comics co-founder) and I have a new project running with Booktopia right now. Check it out here!

It's all over!

Thank you to each of you - all 130 of you! - who backed this project and made it possible. We smashed our first stretch goal - rom com post card prints - and were well on our way to the second goal. We even had a overtime train going!! We ran a whole ten minutes longer than Comictopia thanks to late pledges (we see you! welcome!). 

What's Next:

After a campaign, the team likes to take a little break and come down from the stress and excitement and stress of running a crowdfunding campaign. Once we've back from that well deserved break, we'll start working on the pledge manager. 

Here on out, our updates are going to contain backer-only previews of the book as Melissa finishes it. So keep an eye out for behind the scenes shenanigans! 

Thanks all <3

Hi everyone,

Little-known co-writer Natalie Cooper here. Thank you so much to everyone who has backed the project so far and who's shared it, reached out about it, or otherwise been heroically supportive. 

Years ago, there was a worldwide pandemic (you may have missed it) and one of my best friends in the world messaged me from a different coast with their idea for a graphic novel about a superhero and a supervillain trapped in a wedding rom com. They knew my deepest, darkest secret (that my favourite movie of all time is The Wedding Singer) and asked if I would write it with them. And thus, Bouquets and Death Rays was born.

As we move into the final week of this BackerKit, I am overwhelmed with gratitude and filled with excitement for where this book will go next. When we first noodled around with the idea, I was pretty sure no one would get what we were going for or appreciate our brand of weird- finding that there's a similarly-minded community of passionate weirdos is the icing on the cake.

On top of my thanks to you, I obviously have to thank my partner-in-crime, Jordaan, for always having the best ideas, for talking me out of my bad ones, and reminding me why I love what we do. I'd also like to thank Melissa Capriglione, who is really one of the greatest artists of our time, and has done such incredible work on this that sometimes Jordaan and I message each other just to say "oh my God, how is she so good?"

So, the final week is upon us. We are still working towards our stretch goal of an extra story for the book (I'm thinking prequel!). If we blast past that, we have some other stretch goals in mind, but for now I'd like to ask you- what sorts of updates would you like from us once the campaign is over? Beyond the usual "the book is lettered" or "the printed copies are cool", would you like to discuss our favourite rom coms? Would you like behind-the-scenes peeks of art and dialogue in process? Would you like a segment about the weirdest discussions Jordaan and I have had around the book, including whether or not Pikachu could be mentioned? 

Thanks again, and have a great rest of your day,
Natalie