Pat Mills is to launch his first ever Kickstarter, which launches on November 8! It’s for SHA: The Shadow One, the first book in a three-volume series by Pat and award-winning, top French fantasy artist Olivier Ledroit.
He is creating a stunning deluxe edition of SHA, in keeping with the high standards of French bande dessinée. Something to collect and cherish. This deluxe edition is exclusive to Kickstarter and will not be available for sale anywhere else.
He is also offering a standard hardcover edition. Details of both, below!
SHA is a science fantasy, revenge story set in the futuristic, nightmare city of New Eden. It features DETECTIVE DUFFY, who is assigned to hunt down the deadly assassin SHA.
If you’re missing the golden age of 2000AD, with its fondly-remembered classics, you’ll find similar elements and more in SHA: futuristic death games, amazing SF vehicles, crazy, robotic villains, fanatical space missionaries and President John Smith XXIX, the 29th clone of the American President.
In fact, SHA was originally inspired by Pat’s Sláine saga, where he first came across Scatha, an amazing, Irish champion who taught Celtic Cuchulain his martial arts which surely makes her … the ultimate warrior! This astonishing hero evolved into SHA – The Shadow One.
For many fans, SHA will be the first time they can get their hands on an English language PRINT edition of Olivier’s work. Because their best-selling ,12-volume REQUIEM VAMPIRE KNIGHT series is currently only available digitally in English. So for print-only fans of Olivier, SHA is an absolute must!
Almost 10,000 fans visited Olivier’s Requiem Vampire Knight exhibition this year at Angoulême! There’s also a Manga series and a Requiem spinoff series in the works. But SHA is where it all began, when Olivier and Pat first teamed up together and we feel our Kickstarter special deluxe edition and hardback editions do this legendary series justice.
Here’s the link for fans to check out Pat’s SHA campaign, which the 77 are helping with. You can sign up to follow their campaign and be notified by Kickstarter when it goes live: Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha1/sha-vol-1-the-shadow-one-by-pat-mills-and-olivier-ledroit?ref=b1dr56
The details of the Kickstarter reward tiers and add-ons are listed below with some unusual and exciting EXTRAS!
DELUXE EDITION SPEC
Forty-six pages of gorgeous, full colour strip-art. Exclusive to Kickstarter.
● 46 pages strip art
● 10 pages bonus art gallery
● Introduction and ‘The Making of Sha’ by Pat Mills
● Printed endpapers
● Ribbon placeholder
● Matt lamination, hard cover with foil detail
● Dust jacket with foil detail
● Oversized edition: 297mm x 223mm (11.6 x 8.7 inches)
STANDARD EDITION
It’s the same size as the deluxe edition, comes with a PPC laminated cover, printed endpapers, an introduction by Pat Mills, but no foil detail, placeholder ribbon, bonus art gallery or ‘The Making of Sha’ feature. Will be available for sale after the Kickstarter campaign.
SHA 1 THE SHADOW ONE CAMPAIGN PLEDGES
REWARD TIERS
The deluxe edition (bookplate signed by Pat & Olivier included with all deluxe editions)
The deluxe edition + Requiem perpetual calendar (8 available)
The deluxe edition + one-to-one writing consultancy ‘Fix your Script’ 2hrs (3 x available)*
The deluxe edition + one-to-one ‘The Magic of Sha’ 1hr (3 x available) **
The standard edition
The digital edition
ADD-ONS
Sha 1 script & synopsis signed by Pat
Bookplate signed by Pat & Olivier
Sets of postcards of the art gallery
Art prints of the art gallery signed by Pat & Olivier
Signed copies of Kiss My Axe
Copies of Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!
Copies of Spacewarp Punx Edition
*FIX YOUR SCRIPT Writing Consultancy
Pat brings his decades of writing and editing experience to your creative project. Whether it’s a completed story, a rough draft, or even an outline, Pat will help you fix, polish, or develop your idea.
Consists of 1 hour of Pat reading your script in advance of your 1 hour one-to-one video call.
2 hours total.
**THE MAGIC OF SHA
Spend an hour in a video call discussing with Pat the Magic of Sha. Sha was inspired by Pat’s real life experiences which were so extraordinary, he regularly gave talks about them at Psychic Questing Conferences. If you are interested in the power of reincarnation and past lives to harness your inner creativity, this is for you!
1 hour total.
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