Copernicus Jones: Robot Detective

That’s how much time you have left to get a trade paperback of the first six issues of Copernicus Jones!

Only five days left!

Our backers have done so much to help us get funded, but now we’re in the final stretch and hoping to hit those stretch goals!

As a reminder, hitting the first stretch goal will mean the book will include guest strips by Kevin Warren, Kyle Starks, Matt D. Wilson, Joe Hunter, Chris “Chance Brown,” Kevin Church and T.J. Kirsch! Plus, pinups by Jordan Witt, Shawn Bauguess and Paul Salvi!

There will definitely be a trade paperback of Copernicus Jones! Thanks to everyone who has backed us so far.

There is, however, still a chance to make the book a little thicker, with bonus pinups and guest strips from Kyle Starks, Jordan Witt, Chris “Chance” Brown, Joe Hunter, Shawn Bauguess, Kevin Church and Paul Salvi. Plus, a special Christmas story from our own Kevin Warren!

If you haven’t backed yet, you can help get us to that stretch goal here.

Here’s an early preview of the art for the postcard we’ll be sending out to some of our Kickstarter backers.

And the Copernicus Jones: Robot Detective Kickstarter is doing nicely! Just about 40 percent funded!

We’re also a Kickstarter Staff Pick, which is pretty doggone cool.

Of course, now we’re entering the long middle of the campaign, and the more excitement we can drum up, the better. Tweet, retweet, post on Facebook, post on Tumblr and otherwise get the word out if you’re as excited about this trade paperback as we are!

We’re on Kickstarter!

If you have a few bucks to kick in on a trade paperback of issues 1-6, please help if you can! We’ll have a print-only foreword by Greg Rucka!

Hi, folks. The photo above is of the only print version of Copernicus Jones that exists, as of now. (Kevin got it made up to show at conventions.)

We'd like to change that. We've had some back-and-forth with a handful of print publishers about getting a trade paperback out into comic shops, and we'll be talking to a few more. It's a process that takes some time, so it's up to us all (me included) to be patient.

That said, there is something you can do to possibly speed things along or help our chances, and that's talk about how much you'd like to see Copernicus Jones: Robot Detective in print.

On Twitter, on Facebook, here on Tumblr, Instagram, your blog, a forum, wherever. Not just reblogging or retweeting, though. Let publishers know in your words that you like the book, and why.

As you may have heard, issue 6 of our comic came out on ComiXology today. It's the final part of our big first arc, and if you've been keeping up with the series, we hope you liked how things wrapped up.

We've gotten a lot of support from folks who have been reading the series and we just wanted to take a moment to say how appreciative we are. This series has been and remains a labor of love. We're just some fellows who want to tell stories about a robotic private eye, and we couldn't be more thankful for the people who have spurred us to continue telling those stories.

Rest assured: Copernicus will return. Issue 7 will be a self-contained story, and probably a little lighter than this one ended up being.

Now that we've said a word of thanks, we'd like to ask a quick favor. Our comic is an independent one, which means we don't have anything in the way of marketing or advertising, as it were. All we really have is word of mouth. So if you've been reading the series and like it, tell someone. Tweet about it. Post on Facebook. Or just get up on your rooftop and scream about it for a minute.

Tell people they can read the whole first story arc for less than six bucks. That's less that what two issues of any Marvel or DC book would cost for a solid 100-or-so pages of comics.

Again: Thanks. There wouldn't be a comic without you.