We're Getting Closer To Finding Out Who Desbois Is!

All I know so far is he looks damn good when drawn by Mike Rooth.

The crowdfunding campaign for the fourth issue of Auric Of The Great White North reached its goal in a matter of a day or two but you still have a couple of weeks or so to get your hands on that beauty. Check that out here.

All we know  about Desbois so far is that he's a part of Auric's "team" and has historical ties with the main character. And that information comes from the fourth issue's solicitation text.

The campaign perks display an estimated delivery date for the books of December 2017. Hopefully that holds true.

Tommy Gun Banshee

This space tends to be reserved for the mask and/or cape types, but Tommy Gun Banshee looked too cool to pass up.

Introducing Tommy Gun Banshee, the story of a 1920's hit-man for the Irish Mob, haunted by a dreadful spirit- a banshee. Tommy Gun Banshee is a new quarterly full-colour comic. With Issues #1 and #2 complete, that's 64 pages of comics we're ready to give you! 

Meet Nicky, aka, "The Tommy Gun Banshee", a semi-mythic figure of the Prohibition underworld. Some call him a monster, others call him crazy- but everyone's heard the story of the hit-man haunted by the ghost of a beautiful woman. But just what IS the Banshee? Is she the fever dream of a sick man, or something far more sinister? Nicky's gunning to find out- and it seems like the whole world is gunning for him.

Very pleased to meet you, Tommy!

Aside from Decoder Ring Theater's Red Panda Adventures, very few Canadian characters have been placed in that time frame as a setting. I don't know that Nicky himself is Canadian, mind you, and as a hitman for the Irish mob, there's a good chance he isn't. But if the location is Canadian, then at least some of the characters are going to be. The added supernatural element of a banshee haunting the protagonist certainly adds to the uniqueness of this project and the art appears to be ideally suited.

The creators are celebrating achieving 50% financial support for their project with slightly more than three weeks to go in the campaign as I write this. They plan to continue publishing the book quarterly beyond this fundraising campaign and are ready to send the digital version of the first issue at its conclusion so will you will be partially rewarded right away while the print copies are being generated. I like that approach and I hope the project receives the support it needs to forge ahead.