Thank you for an amazing BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign for THE AMORY WARS Returns With NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW. Over 6,700 Children of the Fence marched to the top of our tower and unlocked every single Supreme Stretch Goal in our campaign! Together you reserved over $952,000 in comic books, collected editions, and collectibles, which we can’t wait to make and deliver to you!
As a recap, here are the Stretch Goals unlocked during the campaign:
Free DRM-free PDF digital editions of every single chapter of THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW have been added to every physical reserved order;
A set of three premium THE AMORY WARS bookmarks have been added to every physical reserved order;
Every hardcover has been upgraded with Spot U/V and either a deboss or emboss embellishments;
Every single issue comic has been upgraded to a deluxe cardstock cover with Spot U/V embellishments;
Every softcover has been upgraded with Spot U/V embellishments;
Every slipcase has been upgraded with Spot U/V and emboss embellishments;
Every physical reserved order of $75 or more will receive a four piece THE AMORY WARS enamel pin set and we’ve unlocked the same pin set as an Add-On item for $40;
THE AMORY WARS trading card set has been added to every physical reserved order of $75 or more and we've unlocked the trading card set as an Add-On item; and
THE AMORY WARS “tour poster” has been added to every physical reserved order!
THE AMORY WARS 20th Anniversary retrospective comic added to every physical reserved orders!
In January, we’ll be sending out surveys to everyone who participated in the campaign through BackerKit. At that time, you’ll be able to add-on any items you missed during the campaign, finalize your shipping costs, and confirm your mailing address. We’ll check in prior to shipping any products next year and you’ll be able to update your address if you move between now and then.
Our Pre-Order Store is also up and running on BackerKit now, so if you have friends who missed out on the campaign, let them know they can still pre-order through BackerKit. Anyone placing a pre-order through BackerKit will still receive the benefit of the upgraded books, but the free digital editions and bonus physical items will be exclusive to those who participated in the initial campaign.
If you’ve already reserved an order through the initial campaign, do not use the Pre-Order Store to add-on items as it will create a separate order for you in BackerKit. You will want to wait until you receive your survey to add-on any items.
Once again, thank you for an amazing campaign! We’ll be back next month ahead of releasing surveys. We will also be shifting to providing monthly campaign updates, which will include more behind-the-scenes insights on the progress of the series and production of your orders. In the meantime, if you have any questions or need assistance with reserving your order, drop us a line at [email protected] for the fastest response.
Hi everyone! The books got delayed in customs, but they should be arriving today or tomorrow! Yay! That means that fulfillment will start this weekend. You should have gotten an email alert to update your shipping address within the next 2 days if you've moved. After 48 hours all shipping addresses will lock as I will be printing out shipping labels so I can send out your rewards.
Currently my plan is to get most of the rewards packaged and ready to ship this weekend so they go out on Monday, but it could take upwards of a week to get them all out. You will get an email notifying when your package ships and will include tracking information. Many of you in the United States should get your reward by Christmas.
If you run into any problems updating your shipping address or have any questions, please let me know! Thanks for your support!
We're throwing all caution to the wind and sharing some major news with you today! One of our favorite things about running BOOM! Direct Reserve campaigns is being able to share exciting news with the community that participates.
Over the last 20 years, THE AMORY WARS has been illustrated by an amazing cadre of celebrated artists including:
Gus Vasquez, who also first illustrated the heroes of Big Hero 6 before they starred in the Oscar Award winning Disney animated feature;
Mike Miller, who’s work at Marvel and DC includes the video game prequel Injustice: Gods Among Us;
Gabriel Guzman, who’s worked on the biggest franchises in the world including Star Wars, Mass Effect, Starcraft, and Conan among others;
Chris Burnham, the New York Times best selling artist of Batman Incorporated and co-creator of Nameless;
Aaron Kuder, fan favorite artist of Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, Action Comics, and Fantastic Four;
Rag Morales, artist of the award winning Identity Crisis with Brad Meltzer.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that joining this impressive pantheon of visual storytellers is the series artist for THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW – Guillaume Martinez!
Guillaume Martinez is a French 20+ year veteran illustrator, concept artist, and comic book artist. Guillaume works both traditionally and digitally in a variety of mediums and styles, and is a sought after artist in both the European and U.S. markets with clients ranging from Marvel to Delcourt to Image Comics to Glenat, and of course, BOOM! Studios.
Guillaume told us, “I am very excited to be working with Claudio, BOOM! Studios, and The Amory Wars!”
We’re sharing a few examples of Guillaume’s past work below:
We’re also thrilled to give you a first look at Guillaume’s first few pages of line art for THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW!
If you have any questions or need assistance with reserving your order, drop us a line at [email protected] for the fastest response.
I've been buckling down to get this comic done for y'all after my illness delay. Pages are just about ready to be toned and lettered (really quick tasks for me) then they'll be off to the printers!! Whoooo! I'm so excited.
For my precious backers I have a few pages that I'm rather proud of to see below. I really hope you like them and it satisfies some of the excitement for the comic.
With just three days left in our THE AMORY WARS Returns With NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW campaign, it’s time to man those jackhammers and reserve your copy to take advantage of all of our unlocked Stretch Goals… and help your fellow Coheed and Cambria fans unlock a couple more!
Thanks for over 5,900 Children of the Fence, who have together reserved over $855,000 in comic books, collected editions, and 20th Anniversary merchandise, we have already added the following to our campaign:
Free DRM-free PDF digital editions of every single chapter of THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW have been added to every physical reserved order;
A set of three premium THE AMORY WARS bookmarks have been added to every physical reserved order;
Every hardcover has been upgraded with Spot U/V and either a deboss or emboss embellishments;
Every single issue comic has been upgraded to a deluxe cardstock cover with Spot U/V embellishments;
Every softcover has been upgraded with Spot U/V embellishments;
Every slipcase has been upgraded with Spot U/V and emboss embellishments; and
Every physical reserved order of $75 or more will receive a four piece THE AMORY WARS enamel pin set and we’ve unlocked the same pin set as an Add-On item for $40!
Plus we’ve nearly reached two more Stretch Goals:
When we reach $875,000, we’ll add THE AMORY WARS trading card set to every physical reserved order of $75 or more and unlock the trading card set as an Add-On item; and
When we reach 6,000 fans, we’ll add THE AMORY WARS “tour poster” to every physical reserved order!
We have one more top secret Supreme Stretch Goal left to reveal... Can we unlock these two goals so we can reveal it before the campaign ends?
And if you missed our livestream with Claudio Sanchez and BOOM! Direct co-host Anthony Mauro on Friday, have no fear because it’s available to rewatch right here!
Keep sharing our final week announcements with your fellow fans so they can participate in THE AMORY WARS Returns With NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW campaign before it ends on Thursday! As a reminder, the new THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW series offered through this campaign will be offered through other channels including comic shops and bookstores in 2024 and 2025.
And as always, if you have any questions or need assistance with reserving your order, drop us a line at [email protected] for the fastest response.
Hi everyone! I hope your Monday has been a pleasant start to your week -- ours certainly has!
In addition to exciting progress on a few other projects separate from this one, we officially checked off the first Stretch Goal here in the campaign... now everyone gets a set of stickers with their books! We showed a few in the Stretch Goal teaser graphic, but we've managed to up the creature count in the set: 11 individual stickers in all! You can put a whole flock of pterodactyls in whatever formation you want wherever you want!
Next up, we'll add a SECOND linen cardstock postcard print to each book/bundle! That's TWO linen cardstock prints per book, EIGHT total if you grab the whole collection! (These will also be offered individually in the pledge manager in case you already have some of these books in your collection...)
With only 4 days left to go, it will be exciting to see if we can reach that goal in time. While we have gobs of predictive data from our many Kickstarter campaigns, Backerkit traffic has shown to have a different pattern to it -- there's always a good uptick in the last 48 hours, but it's hard to gauge what that will mean in this case. According to Backertracker's math, we could end anywhere from $26k to $37k... So these next 4 days will be exciting to watch! 😊 We wanna make these prints! Then, if we hit $30k, we'll have something else to reveal before the clock ends.
So please share this link with all of your friends, family, and followers! Word of mouth can do wonders when it comes to unlocking more free stuff! 😄
Hello again, everyone! Spike here, with some photos of the Lackadaisy team's research trip to St. Louis, Missouri, the setting of the Lackadaisy series!
Our primary animation team spent a few days touring the city, taking inspirational photos and notes for season one, and we figured you might like to see a few.
Enjoy! And please fill out your backer survey here if you haven't already done so; we've already begun shipping plushes and keychains!
As we enter the final week of this BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign, we are absolutely thrilled to share a killer announcement today. This Friday, December 1st at 12:00pm PST, our very own Anthony Mauro, co-host of BOOM! Direct, will be joined by Claudio Sanchez for an exclusive 30 minute long livestream to discuss THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW on this campaign page!
We will include 3-4 questions from the fans in our interview with Claudio. If you would like a question answered, please email BOOM! Direct at [email protected] by no later than 6:00pm PST tomorrow, Thursday, November 30th. What insights are you hoping to glean from the livestream? Let us know!
Lastly, we’re excited to reveal our seventh Supreme Stretch Goal! When we reach 6,000 Children of the Fence participating in this campaign, we will unlock and add this THE AMORY WARS “tour” poster to every physical reserved order, regardless of dollar amount!
All artwork & design not final and subject to change.
So get out there and let your fellow fans know about these final week announcements so they to can participate in THE AMORY WARS Returns With NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW campaign!
And as always, if you have any questions or need assistance with reserving your order, drop us a line at [email protected] for the fastest response.
You raised your hands high and we heard you! We want to thank everyone who participated in our mid-campaign poll last week regarding adding new offerings to the campaign. Based on your overwhelming response, we are adding two new Campaign Levels and unlocking Stretch Goal items for purchase as Add-Ons as follows:
A Slipcased Hardcover Set + Comic Book Set is now available for $200, which is a 16% savings vs the retail price of the individual items in the bundle, as Campaign Level 6.33.
A Signed Slipcased Hardcover Set + Comic Book Set + Commemorative Art Print, limited to 500 sets, is now available for $280, also a 16% savings compared to the the retail price of the individual items in the bundle, as Campaign Level 6.78.
THE AMORY WARS enamel pin set is now available as an Add-On for $40.
When we unlock THE AMORY WARS trading card set, we’ll make that available as an add-on as well!
And as a reminder, tomorrow at 12:00pm PST, Claudio Sanchez will appear in an exclusive 30 minute long livestream to discuss THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW on this campaign page! We will include 3-4 questions from the fans in our interview with Claudio. If you would like a question answered, please email it to [email protected] by no later than 6:00pm PST today!
Keep sharing our final week announcements with your fellow fans so they can participate in THE AMORY WARS Returns With NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW campaign! As a reminder, the new THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW series offered through this campaign will be offered in standard formats including single comic issues and collected editions through other channels including comic shops and bookstores in 2024 and 2025. We’re thrilled to be able to offer these special limited 20th Anniversary editions through this campaign, but want each and every Child of the Fence to discover and experience THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO, I’M BURNING STAR IV, VOL. II: NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW in the format, price point, and point of purchase that works best for them!
And as always, if you have any questions or need assistance with reserving your order, drop us a line at [email protected] for the fastest response.
