{"id":1727,"date":"2013-04-08T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2013-04-08T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:43:07","slug":"also-on-kickstarter-the-return-of-michael-kaluta-elaine-lees-starstruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/08\/also-on-kickstarter-the-return-of-michael-kaluta-elaine-lees-starstruck\/","title":{"rendered":"Also on Kickstarter: the return of Michael Kaluta &#038; Elaine Lee&#8217;s Starstruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/elainelee\/harry-palmer-starstruck-or-old-proldiers-never-die?ref=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/starstruck_kickstarter.jpg\" alt=\"Kaluta &amp; Lee's Starstruck on Kickstarter\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" \/><\/a>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:16px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">So I&#8217;m doing this thing on Kickstarter, as you may have noticed, and that means I&#8217;ve spent some time there over the past few days and, being there, I&#8217;ve paged through a bunch of other peoples&#8217; current projects. This one slapped me right upside the head: Michael Kaluta and Elaine Lee are crowdfunding a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/elainelee\/harry-palmer-starstruck-or-old-proldiers-never-die?ref=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sequel to their Starstruck comics<\/a> from the 1980&#8217;s in a 176 page graphic novel format. If this team needs any introduction, the blame falls on you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;ll just mention &quot;science fiction&quot; and &quot;noir&quot; and &quot;freaking Michael Kaluta&quot; to get you started.<\/p>\n<p align-\"left\">If the project meets its $44,000 goal the book will be published  in glorious black and white; that&#8217;s not ironic, which I mention for the benefit of anybody who hasn&#8217;t seen Kaluta&#8217;s inks. But if they meet their stretch goal of $69,000 they&#8217;ll be able to add color to the pages, which would also be pretty wonderful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/elainelee\/harry-palmer-starstruck-or-old-proldiers-never-die\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">As I write this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/elainelee\/harry-palmer-starstruck-or-old-proldiers-never-die?ref=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the project is nearing the $36,000 mark<\/a> and it&#8217;s still got 24 days to run. So I&#8217;d say they&#8217;re pretty much on track for one wonderful thing or the other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Over the past year or so we&#8217;ve seen Kickstarter used in ways that don&#8217;t always warm my heart; that Veronica Mars project, for example, just looked like a way for a major studio to produce a film (and, they must have assumed, its buzz) without ponying up any cash for it, thereby increasing their profit margin. That doesn&#8217;t thrill me. But seeing individual creators of this stature go straight to the public to fund an independent project&#8230; it&#8217;s happy-making. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/elainelee\/harry-palmer-starstruck-or-old-proldiers-never-die?ref=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m doing this thing on Kickstarter, as you may have noticed, and that means I&#8217;ve spent some time there over the past few days and, being there, I&#8217;ve paged through a bunch of other peoples&#8217; current projects. This one slapped me right upside the head: Michael Kaluta and Elaine Lee are crowdfunding a sequel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}