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The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1โ5!
KICKSTARTING NOW: Almost Real's Volume 6 (POP CULTURE) and BOOK 1: our first ever recollection of Volumes 1-5: with remastered art, typography, and all new entries per-issue!
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The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1โ5!
BUY THIS ZINE IโM IN IT
In case anybody has missed it, I am happy to be a contributor to the new issue of Almost Real: a speculative biology zine, Volume 6 based on pop culture! We are already about 3/4 funded! Come check out the work of a host of amazing fellow artistsโ work!
Can we say it? I think we can say it ๐ Almost Real's Book 1 and Volume 6 campaign is officially a week into funding and is at some rather โจniceโจ stats; thank you all SO MUCH for getting us over two-thirds the way to our goal!
ICYMI: we have a BACKER-EXCLUSIVE update preview now live, featuring one spread of Volume 6 contributor @sparrowlucero's entry! Who wants to meet Gribble: a full-mustached mascot puppet with some rather interesting internal mechanics...
Pledge today to access this update and secure yourself copies of the latest entries in the Almost Real speculative biology series! ๐ฟโจ
oh yeah, in case you missed it: ALMOST REAL VOLUME 6 IS OFFICIALLY UP ON KICKSTARTER! and I'M IN IT!! plus a bunch of other really cool and awesome artists. i'm hypnotizing you with my vampire powers that i definitely have to ooOOoooh you wanna pledge so bad oooOOH
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The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1โ5!
Very excited to be a creature contributor to the Almost Real series, lots of amazing artists on this team โญ๏ธ
ALMOST REAL'S BOOK 1 AND VOL. 6 KICKSTARTER HAVE REACHED 24K AND MORE ๐๐๐ This means all backers will be getting a sneak peek at either a BOOK 1 ENTRY that's been remastered for the new collection, OR an ENTIRELY-NEW ENTRY FROM VOLUME 6!
Be sure to cast your vote until tonight at 11:59PM PST to get a say in what backers will see come Monday; even non-backers can vote on the poll!
Are YOU a backer yet to ARz's first campaign in four years? ... ๐๐๐
Thanks to the support of over 300 backers, Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is now almost 60% funded!! Release the latest innovation in gachapede engineering: a worm with holes in it!
Check out the campaign for more man-made (and scud-made?) horrors and fascinating speculative biology!
The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1โ5!
KICKSTARTING NOW: Almost Real's Volume 6 (POP CULTURE) and BOOK 1: our first ever recollection of Volumes 1-5: with remastered art, typography, and all new entries per-issue!
Pledge today to secure your copies and help us go to print and pay our contributors!
I am one of the contributing artists for Almost Real Volume 6. Go give it a look, and support the Kickstarter campaign if you can!
UPDATE: NEARLY 50% in 24+ hours! POLL: choose the "60% funded" sneak peek reward!
We'll cut to the chase; we can't express to you how awesome and warm of a welcome back this is after our hiatus. Thanks to 250 of y'all's support since launching at 12 noon PST yesterday, we've been able to come just shy of 50% towards our base goal of $40,000, and earned a "Project We Love" banner from Kickstarter itself! Where do we even start!! ๐ญ
As a token of our gratitude, we'll have a poll up on the mirrored Kickstarter update for the next few days that'll be open for anyone to vote on what they'd want a sneak peek of at our next funding milestone of 60% ($24,000)! As a head's up: this will be reserved for backer eyes only! What do you want to see first: a reworked entry from Book 1, showing what some contributors have revisited and our editors have remastered? Or a brand new Pop Culture-themed entry from Volume 6 and its cavalcade of creativity? The choice is all yours... ๐ฟโจ We'll keep the Kickstarter poll open until Friday 11:59PM PST, so get your votes in now!
Thank you all again, we couldn't have done this without you! Talk to you all soon, and head over to the Kickstarter update to vote today!
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
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The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1โ5!
KICKSTARTING NOW: Almost Real's Volume 6 (POP CULTURE) and BOOK 1: our first ever recollection of Volumes 1-5: with remastered art, typography, and all new entries per-issue!
Pledge today to secure your copies and help us go to print and pay our contributors!
barely five hours into the campaign and not only have we been labeled as a "Prject We Love" by Kickstarter, we're also over a quarter of the way to our goal. you're all awesome. we're also a little gobsmacked (thank you all so much holy geez??????????)
The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1โ5!
Iโm incredibly excited to be a contributor to the sixth volume of @almostrealzine ! I look forward to sharing my platform-hopping bipedal reptiles and the relationship between them and their ambulatory vegetable(?) prey! I put a little bit of all of my favorite creature design things into my entry and I seriously canโt wait for you guys to see it.
Hop on the kickstarter to support all the amazing artists involved and enjoy yourself some spec bio inspired by pop culture!
A sneak preview of my entry for the upcoming Volume 6 of Almost Real, a speculative biology zine! This edition of the zine will be based on pop culture! Iโm incredibly proud to be a part of this project and cannot wait to show this off.
Follow the Kickstarter page to be notified on the campaignโs launch in June!
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Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue is live on Kickstarter! Time to introduce the cute yet vaguely horrible cover critter, a living gachapon toy bioengineered by scud aliens!
The wild gachapede is a segmented worm-like arthropoid that lives parasitically inside a bivalve-like "giant diatom" in shallow, sandy-bottomed seas of the scud homeplanet. The giant diatom's shell is made of two interlocking lid-like frustules of transparent silica, allowing light to pass through to its veins of symbiotic unicellular algae. Much like the microscopic diatoms of earth, giant diatoms reproduce in two different ways, asexually and sexually. Asexual reproduction is carried out by the two frustules separating and each generating a new frustule, a phase during which they may be parasitized by the gachapede. But because the new frustule is always smaller than the old one, like the lid and body of a box, eventually one lineage of giant diatoms is too small to safely carry out asexual reproduction. These tiny ones will finally give up and reproduce sexually by releasing sperm and eggs that will join to create new larvae and maximum-size giant diatoms. The parasitic gachapede has a relatively low impact on a large healthy giant diatom, as it lays dormant until the frustules split, surviving off the "bloodstream" of unicellular algae.
Scuds have used the unique properties of these two organisms in combination with their civilization's advanced biotech to create a collectable toy; twisting the basic bodyplan of the gachapede into thousands of variations of "funny little guys." The wild diatom has been modified into a "gachapod," which is far more spacious and transparent than its wild counterpart. To obtain the toy, you crack open the two frustles and recycle the gachapod (which will now grow into two new pods). However, once removed from its food source, the gachapede typically only lives a couple days at most. At the end of its life, its cuticle calcifies and makes them into a rigid figurine. Scuds who are really into the gachapede scene will pose their gachapede into a desirable pose like a insect collector pinning a bug.
Anyways, if you want to read about even more strange, horrifying, and fascinating intersections of biology and pop culture, check out Almost Real: Speculative Biology Zine. We've also got a big thick book of the previous issues with different themes, including Mythology, Biotechnology, Aquatics, and Flight.
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The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1โ5!
ALMOST REAL: A Speculative Biology Zine returns with the ALL-NEW VOLUME 6 and a remastered collection of VOLUMES 1-5!
Back in the mid 2010s, illustrator and Runaway to the Stars creator Jay Eaton incepted the idea of hosting a speculative biology anthology: a small magazine collecting uniquely-made entries from pool of fellow artists and authors who loved all the possibility and creativity that the world of spec bio had to offer. Together with Hye Mardikian, their idea and collaboration brought forth ALMOST REAL: A SPECULATIVE BIOLOGY ZINE's first volume all the way back in 2017.ย
In 2018, we took to the skies with our second volume FLIGHT. Volume 3 took you under the waves with AQUATICS, Volume 4 introduced all sorts of inventions from BIOTECHNOLOGY, and legends came to life in from Volume 5's MYTHOLOGY.
Now, in 2026, we RETURN: featuring our sixth volume with 12 new entries all about POP CULTURE and a remastered omnibus of BOOK 1 that collects all 5 of our previous, some out-of-print issues, and we need YOUR HELP to print these books and pay our artists!
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