The PopCulteer
August 30, 2024

We have a couple of new projects from old friends of PopCult to tell you about this week. First up, we have a new Kickstarter campaign for a new comic book from Anthony Stokes. As has become the norm when I plug a Kickstarter campaign, some browsers will show a line struck through the links, as though they don’t work, but rest assured, they do. It’s some kind of conflict with the blog template I use here and certain browers.

I’ve been telling you about comic books written by Anthony Stokes for almost two years now, and his last campaign just wrapped up successfully last month. This exciting young writer has become so proflic that he has an entirely different new comic ready to launch.  In fact, just a couple of days in, it’s already funded.

My Girlfriend Is A Cyborg Assassin is a pretty self-explanatory title.  It’s a bit of Cyberpunk Noir that tells the story of a private detective at some point in the future by the name of Ralph.

Ralph hates machines.

Charisma is a machine…a Cyborg Assassin, in fact.

They’ll have to learn to work together to solve the mystery of his ex-partner’s murder.

Inspired by Blade Runner and odd-couple buddy cop stories like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, this is a comic book that fans of Cyberpunk 2077 and Akira will enjoy.

Set in a cyberpunk landscape where people regularly get cybernetic enhancements to their bodies, Cyborg Assassin at its core is a story about the walls technology can put up between people.

My Girlfriend Is A Cyborg Assassin features 26 pages of incredible full-color artwork, illustrated By Jack Dunne and colored By Maximo. There are a variety of rewards available in digital and print form, with variant covers and “risque” covers, if you’re into that sort of thing. You can also get just about all of Anthony’s previous works as add-ons, in case you’re coming to this game late.

The campaign is fully-funded, so you can be sure that you’ll get to read this in December, if not earlier, and it looks like another sure winner from the creative mind of Anthony Stokes. You have just under three weeks to Kick-in and make sure you get a copy. Check out some of the great artwork…

SKYFLAKE Firmament Shirt

SKYFLAKE is the musical project of William Mull, whom readers of PopCult will remember from his Forbidden Gallery comic book.  I’ve also been playing his band’s music on Radio Free Charleston, and in fact I opened an episode just a couple of months ago with his song “Firmament.”

Now, William has created a cool shirt to go along with the song. I’ll let him tell you about it…

We thought we’d create a very limited-release t-shirt to commemorate SKYFLAKE‘s new song and video, FIRMAMENT — we’re ordering some for ourselves, and would like to offer it to YOU as well!

In order to get your hands on one of these nifty T-shirts, all you have to do is go HERE, and do it quick because it’ll only be available for less than two more weeks. In addition to the cool design on the front, the back also sports the band’s cool logo.

And if you wonder what the tune sounds like, check out this cool new video…

Any funds raised from the sale of this shirt will go back into creating more SKYFLAKE musical projects.

And with that, we wrap up this week’s anniversary travel-truncated PopCulteer. Check back every single damn day for fresh content and our many regular features.