Crowdfunding Corner: Cullen Bunn’s The Faraway follows a group of RPG enthusiasts trapped in a dark fantasy world
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Cullen Bunn has announced the Kickstarter campaign for first comic offering in the Outer Shadows imprint is now live! The Faraway #1 presents a new dark fantasy/horror world that will entertain, delight, and chill!
We know the story, right? While playing a fantasy role-playing game, a group of friends accidentally transports themselves into a fantasy world. Therein, they meet a friendly magical gnome who grants them magical weapons and guides them through their adventures. They face dark forces, but they rise into the roles of heroes and reaffirm the lifelong bonds of friendship in the process.
Yeah.
This isn’t that story.
Our heroes are transported into a magical kingdom of warriors and wizards and dragons and catacombs, yes. They meet a friendly magical gnome, yes. They are granted magical artifacts of great power, yes. But, within minutes of arriving in the fantasy world, this group of five college students finds themselves thrown into an adventure that is more horror than high fantasy.
Our heroes have arrived, you see, in the DARKEST if dark fantasy worlds, where the “evil overlord” has already successfully conquered the realm and enslaved all of the free peoples. It is a nightmare realm populated by the most awful monsters and the most cruel sorcerers and warlords.
Think of it as a tale of survival horror… in a land like Mordor… if the corruption of Mordor spread across all of Middle Earth.
Trapped in this violent, vicious, unforgiving, terrifying (and terrifyingly lethal) realm, our heroes struggle for survival as, at every turn, they are faced with malignant monsters, foul magic, and fiendish foes.
Written by master of horror comics Cullen Bunn and illustrated by high-energy artist Vitalii Kalchenko, The Faraway takes the familiar tropes of “gamers trapped in a fantasy world” and turns them on their decapitated head.
The campaign runs until Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 12:59 AM EDT.
Source: Graphic Policy
