It's your favorite time of the month! The time we heave our armored, primordial bodies from the muddy banks of the river we live in to write our Dungeon Crawler Carl: CROCOD...
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🐊 It's 2026! Time for your DCC: Crocodile update fix 🐊
HI GUYS!
We at Vault truly hope that you had a wonderful turn of the year (and that Backers enjoyed the comics gift--check out the previous update for the link if you misse...
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🐊 Happy Maulidays from Vault Comics! We come bearing gifts 🎁
It's the most wonderful time of the year... the time when that one publisher, whose big scaly comic you backed once upon a time, decides to send out yet ANOTHER update. IT'S...
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🐊 ❄️ Happy December, Croc fam! ❄️ 🐊
Howdy folks, how's the end of 2025 treating you?
We hope you've been having an excellent few weeks since our level collapse... on this new floor, we've been furiously work...
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🐊 The Croc has finally landed... THANK YOU FOR AN AWESOME CAMPAIGN (plus, some parting gifts) 🐊
You did it, you really did it.
• Over 26,000 Crawlers participating
• Over $2.6 million dollars raised
• All 6 Fan Boxes unlocked and voted on
• A silver Vaethon Benefacto...
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Saturday update... good luck on the final unlocks and upgrades of the campaign!
Good morning...Just a quick one from us, today!
Celestial Fan Box options... revealed!
Last night, backers unlocked the Celestial Fan Box preview. We've got some solid...
It's your favorite time of the month! The time we heave our armored, primordial bodies from the muddy banks of the river we live in to write our Dungeon Crawler Carl: CROCODILE update!!
💚 PROGRESS REPORT
As you know, we like to keep it honest around here. To that end: the entire DCC: Crocodile creative team, plus everyone at Vault Comics and Aethon are as beautiful as they are brilliant (in a word, extremely). It's wild that we all happen to work on the same book. What's that? Wrong kind of honest? okay, got it. Sigh. You want accountability. FINE.
We remain on track for early book completion on DCC: Crocodile. The comic is REALLY off to the races. The final scripts are buttoned up, Brett has been drawing his arm off, and we're closing in on the halfway point of completion on inks. We're also excited to share our 100% final colors with you, hopefully for the next update.
We remain on track for early physical reward production on DCC: Crocodile. Your very own project Zev (the one writing this update) wants you to know that our priority is to have all physical and digital non-book DCC items produced by the halfway point of this year! We deeply want to get you your rewards to you as soon as those DCC: Croc books come in.
We're continuing to reach out to custom-reward backers. We've already started the info-collection process for many tiers, so thanks for your replies! If you're in an audio tier, you're next on the list, so keep an eye out for an email from us.
Brett has completed the DCC Webtoon Campaign-only Editioncover! As a reminder, this item is only available for this campaign, and when we original posted it (minus art), it looked like this:
inspiring (no)
...and here's the exclusive Brett Bean art we got in just yesterday!
This is the raw, unprocessed art... we'll be dressing this up soon (ie: adding important info like, you know, the title), but we wanted you to have the first peek!
A repeated reminder on the DCC Webtoon editions, also published by Vault Comics: we'll be shipping Campaign-exclusive books (with the Brett Bean cover shown above) to those who ordered one along with your DCC: Crocodile book rewards. However, the regular-degular DCC Webtoon with the standard edition covers will be in shops in late May 2026. So don't get surprised if you see those in shops--yours will be coming shortly!
If you somehow missed that we were offering exclusive covers, you can still add items to your order. Adjust your order via your Pledge Manager, or if you were originally not a backer, check out the Pre-order Store. You'll be able to adjust your pledge until we lock orders, which won't be for a few more months.
💚 UPCOMING FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
Did you know about this?? On May 2nd, head to your participating local comic book shop to pick up comics for absolutely free. And Vault Comics will be participating! On offer for this year is none other than DCC Webtoon #0, featuring original art by Yoshi Yoshitani. If you like free DCC stuff, mark your calendars now so you don't miss out, because we expect these free copies to fly off the shelves.
Free Comic Book Day 2026 DCC cover preview
Vault Comics will also offer a webstore-exclusive version of the DCC Webtoon #0 FCBD cover, featuring art by Nathan Gooden. This will be a nod to comic book fans... does anyone know what this new cover will homage? Here's a visual hint for you savvy-types:
Free Comic Book Day 2026 DCC (Webstore/ DCC: Croc backers only) cover preview. What could it be??????
If you're interested in picking up a webstore-exclusive FCBD cover, we're going to make it easy for you... we'll be setting aside copies for this campaign specifically and adding this webstore-exclusive cover to the DCC: Crocodile Pledge Manager store and Pre-order Store. We'll break our once-a-month schedule to let you know when those are up!
💚 PAY-AS-YOU-GO UPDATE
Pay-as-you-go folks, just a quick update to let you know that you're good, and not to worry! There have been a few questions about whether having chosen pay-as-you-go will affect anything from submitting custom reward info to availability of add-on items. We're replying to those questions as they come, but generally speaking, the answer is 100% that you're good and we are happy to accommodate any needs for extra time getting info or orders to us.
If you need to reach out, you can always do that at [email protected].
The definitive power fantasy LitRPG The Primal Hunter comes to crowdfunding with this Collector's Edition release. Get the deluxe box set, along with exclusive merch and rewards.
Definitely worth a follow, in this humble fish's opinion! This campaign is being run by our incredible collaborators at Vala, who also supported our success on DCC: Crocodile, and you know there are going to be a lot of goodies in store for die-hard fans of the series. This campaign launches next week... click here to follow!
💚 REBORN AS A DEMONIC TREE CAMPAIGN
Progression fantasy fans are eating good this month! Another extremely popular series Kickstarting right now. Xkarnation's Reborn as a Demonic Tree is an Isekai LitRPG Adventure that's been published as a webnovel, in chapters on Patreon, as an ebook, audiobook, light novel, print book (there's even a physical cd available in case you know anyone who still owns a cd player).
The story has earned a horde of loyal fans across all of these formats, and it's finally time for Demonic Tree to assume it's final form, as a feature-packed true collector's edition.
And, we've got one more message from our buds at Renegade Games:
💚 COMING SOON! DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL: RPG
Lovers of Dungeon Crawler Carl might be interested to learn our friends at Renegade Game Studios are launching the official role-playing game soon, right here on BackerKit.
Play as a familiar face, such as 🧨 Carl, 👑🐈 Donut, 🐊 Florin, 🐐 Prepotente, or build your own unique crawler, complete with a customizable class and race (if you survive to the third floor)! Entertain your viewers, gain followers, and survive an onslaught of horrors that will make your tootsies curl. This full official TTRPG lets you become a crawler in the brutal, televised labyrinth known as the World Dungeon. Enjoy expansive character creation rules for your own custom crawler. Choose from dozens of backgrounds, create your own skills, choose a race, a God to worship, and a class for a nearly infinite number of combinations!
And... a final note from us, we might have a very special bonus gift for DCC: Croc backers who also back this RPG project. More on that later.
💚 CONGRATS TO BRETT BEAN!
We're nearly done with this big update, but we wanted to give one more shout-out... Congrats to Brett Bean for his success on the comic D'Orc, which we previewed to all DCC: Croc backers last year! If you've enjoyed all the art we've shared with you so far, you'll surely love his work in D'Orc too. Go grab a copy at your local comic book store if you haven't already.
💚 BACKER-ONLY CONTENT TIME!
We'll, we've shared a lot of love, and we have a lot more love to come in the coming months. Now that we're at the end of this monthly update, why not close like we usually do, with a bit of a reward for backers?
Backers, you know the drill... Backer-only content is below the cut, for your eyes only, featuring Brett's original sketches for the DCC Webtoon Campaign-exclusive cover. Not to be missed!
Hey all!
I just read the update about the DCC free comic book day covers and that i desperately want the absolute Carl cover- are we still able to get into the pledge manager stuff now or will it be opened when the cover comes out? I can find the preorder store but not the one for backers. Apologies if this is a silly question!
We at Vault truly hope that you had a wonderful turn of the year (and that Backers enjoyed the comics gift--check out the previous update for the link if you missed it!), and that 2026 has been a great one for you so far. As promised, here's our monthly DCC: Crocodile update for you~
Surveys pt I: you got em!
As we mentioned in our previous updates, surveys were rolling out to Backers. As of right now, all surveys have been sent out!
Example survey, so you know what they look like!
If you haven't received your survey yet, there are three potential reasons why:
The survey from us went to your provided email, but was marked as Spam (so check your folder!)
You signed up for a Pay Over Time option (see the section below for more info)
You hallucinated the entire campaign in a fever dream and this update isn't real
I guess there's a sliiiim chance of the fourth option; "we made an error on our end". If you've ruled out the above options and suspect shenanigans that we can help fix, please reach out to us at [email protected] and we'll take a look! We also do very much see your comments here but email is best, since we may need to confirm private info such as your email or mailing address.
Surveys pt II: Info for Pay Over Time Backers
Folks have (correctly) noticed that surveys have NOT yet gone out to folks who chose the Pay Over Time option. For Pay Over Time backers, your surveys will be released upon full payment for your rewards. There is a comprehensive information page about Pay Over Time offered by BackerKit, which you can read at that link.
A mea culpa from us: this was our very first time offering the Pay Over Time option on our end, and we would have made this information about the Pay Over Time survey release clearer last month had we been aware that this would be a point of confusion! Just letting you know that we hear you and will do better with the communication on this aspect in the future.
Additional Note: we intend to keep the additional Backer-only Survey add-on store available for those who will be filling out their surveys later, in case that was a concern. So there should be no real downside to filling out your survey now vs later, aside from the peace of mind of knowing that you've done so!
Surveys pt III: Custom items!
Many of our highest tier Loot Boxes came with custom items, including draw-ins, write-ins, and more. We just wanted to put this info in one clear place so you know you're on our minds!
Draw-in/ mob cameo folks: we heard you like surveys, so we put a second survey in your backer survey specifically for you guys to provide visual information about yourselves for the cameo drawing. We've asked for everything we'll need, and it should be fairly straightforward, but please reach out to us if you have additional questions!
Audio/ write-in folks: We will be reaching out 1-on-1 at a future date. These items are pretty custom and may require some conversation, so we figured email will be the best way to proceed. We'll give a head's up in a future update when we're ready to produce those rewards.
Late Pledge Store
This DCC: Crocodile Late Pledge Storeis still open! Thanks to all who have partaken so far, we're glad to know that folks who missed the original campaign were able to grab some rewards. We'd also like to casually point out that the DCC V2+V3 Hardcover Kickstarter Late Pledge Storealso exists, for those who might have missed out on our sibling DCC campaign.
Other upcoming projects from Vault (with exclusive reveal)!
Vault's next campaign might be of interest for enjoyers of progression fantasy and LitRPG... it's the hardcover collected edition of the popular series, The Primal Hunter. Not a comic this time, but a very slick set of Collector Edition books (and other goodies) for a series that deserves this degree of publishing love.
And, we've got permission to do an exclusive reveal of one of the sweet items being offered with this campaign. If you've read the first few volumes of The Primal Hunter, you might recognize this guy.
The Fallen King pin design
This campaign formally launches next month, so keep an eye on it, or consider place a your $5 reservation at the Launch Party page if you're in the mood for extras~
That's awesome, but let's get back to DCC: Crocodile!
Yes, let's. What else, what else... the Bumper Sticker design poll (extended edition) finally wrapped, so we'll jump into producing the final designs you voted on! The winning design, "Will Crawl for Loot", will be included with every reward that contains a single bumper sticker. For reward tiers that included the 3-pack, you'll receive "Will Crawl for Loot," "Shotgun," and "Croc Around and Find Out" with their final designs and art.
And to finish us off, shall we do another art preview for Backers? Spoilers incoming? You know the drill? You sure do. We've got a thumbnailed page from an upcoming boss battle scene. Please don't view if you'd like to avoid being spoiled.
You've checked your inbox 100 times to no avail but you still haven't learned that the survey was still being optimized! Reward: Only a little more waiting!
Figured I'd post a separate comment in case anyone is checking back in and didn't see Vault's recent comment reply in their last update. Surveys for those not in the initial test batch should be coming out in early January so hopefully we'll see them soon!
