Exclusive Preview: Check Out These Highly Anticipated pages of RUNAWAY TO THE STARS
A sci-fi powerhouse reminiscent of PROJECT HAIL MARY
With over 1400 folks signed up already, Iron Circus Comics–the crowdfunding queen of championing indie comics—has got a brand new campaign folks should absolutely check out. We’re talking about RUNAWAY TO THE STARS, the latest slice-of-life graphic novel by cartoonist Jay Eaton, and a project that has been in the works for well over a decade.
This is a hard science fiction comic book with a complicated yet fully realized world set within its complex in-universe appendices and extra content. Much like the hit movie this year, Project Hail Mary, this is a tale about cross-species alien best friendships… and AI pirates.
The campaign will also feature bonuses like an exclusive bookplate and a discounted bundle of Iron Circus titles curated by Eaton himself. There’s even free domestic and discounted international shipping if you follow the project before its official launch.
Here’s the full story premise:
Abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of the Nexus Jovia youth foster care facility in a cat carrier, centaur and aerospace engineer Talita has no idea where she came from. She’s spent the vast majority of her life around humans, has very little familiarity with her own species’ cultures, and has always had trouble connecting with anyone — other than sentient AI beings, that is. So when Talita discovers a damaged Centaur spaceship in the Ixion Recycling Plant’s salvage yard with a pirate AI onboard named Bip, she quickly becomes drawn into its plans to escape the planet of Dirtball. But her two human friends, Idrisah and Gillie, aren’t about to let her commit crimes on behalf of a shady AI... not without their help, of course! Because Bip, the pilot of the Runaway, is definitely not telling Talita everything about what happened to the ship’s now-deceased centaur crew, or what mission they might have been on. But despite Bip’s suspiciously shady past, the AI is a charmer and quickly gets the team on board to help. Now all they have to do is secretly repair the ship and get all the clearances needed to file a flight plan… Of course, they just can’t get caught doing it.
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CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE RUNAWAY TO THE STARS CAMPAIGN
Now let me just stress, The DeMonster is not sponsored by nor getting anything out of me sharing this campaign. I genuinely like supporting comics and think it’s important to talk about these things, as we're getting a crazy number of requests these days.
Anyway, if you want to support this campaign and go and see if it’s really for you, check it out via the exclusive excerpt we were given below.
Here’s what creator Jay Eaton had to say about the series:
“This book is the culmination of over a decade of building a science fiction setting and the people who live in it. It continually delights me how many readers see themselves reflected in Talita and her friends. Whether you’re a 3-meter-tall alien, a GMO catgirl, a sapient quantum computer, or just human, there’s something here for you.”
And what Iron Circus publisher C. Spike Trotman adds:
“This story is for anyone who’s ever felt displaced, othered, or unheard. One of the things that makes RUNAWAY TO THE STARS so special is its focus on communication—how hard it is, how messy it can be, and how universal those struggles are, no matter who or what you are.”
The crowdfunding campaign just launched today, so support if ya want.