Tokyo Fire #1

The Story

After botching the “one last job” that was supposed to get them up and out of the irradiated slums of the futuristic “Lower Tokyo”, two small time crooks, Tib and Wren, along with their mentor, aspiring hoverbike racer Lee, are caught between superpowered gangs, a violent police state, a class revolution, and a leather-clad, pyrokinetic madman trying to burn it all down. Thieves, family, flame, Tokyo will burn.

Written by T.S. Luther (Growing Up), drawn by Sky Hawkins (Exhaust), and lettered by Mike Stock (Dead Roots), Tokyo Fire is a seven-issue limited-series that follows two back-alley thieves as they navigate their final days in a city on the brink of collapse and unravel the conspiracy that led to its downfall.

With your help, we can jumpstart issue #1 and start telling the story of Lower Tokyo’s dissent into ash. 

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Bios

T.S. Luther is a writer at large from the middle-of-nowhere Michigan whose previous works include comics like GROWING UP. He grew up on 90s cartoons, indie comics, and B-movies. He loves reading comics and playing RPGs with his two amazing kids and awesome partner in the aforementioned middle-of-nowhere. You can find him wondering in the woods or at cantbekilledcreations.com/comics

Sky Hawkins is an autistic comic creator from the really hot part of California, and the mastermind writer/artist behind digital comics like EXHAUST, STAR-TRIGGER, and the GLANCE ANTHOLOGY, all of which are available on Webtoon. They live on a strict diet of action manga, dystopian sci-fi and EDM. You can check out everything they're working on over at https://skyhawkins.newgrounds.com/

Mike Stock is an experienced comic book letterer, editor and designer whose lettering credits include Dead Roots, The Kill Screen, The Pride, VS Comics and whose work has been published by the likes of Dark Horse, Image, and Comixology Originals. A more detailed list of credits are available on his website (www.michaelstock.co.uk). Mike also works as a UI Artist at game developer and has a keen interest in comics, games, football and feminism. He attempts to do all of this whilst raising two awesome children with his partner on the south coast of the UK.

Stretch Goals

If we can hit $4,000, we’ll include a whole mess of concept art back matter in the issue from the making of issue #1!

Timeline

• The Zoop campaign will run from August 15th, 2023 to September 15th, 2023.

• Writing is complete and art work and lettering on the issue is already underway!

• Creative will finish up after the campaign closes. (About a month)

• The world is a scary place and we have tried to account for any and all monsters that might get in our way. That being said, delays in finishing the art are always possibly, however unlikely. Any delays will be communicated promptly to backers.

• All that leaves is printing and shipping. (About two weeks for each)

• We are aiming for the end of November/beginning of December for backers to receive all of their rewards.

• Printing and shipping delays are possible. Any delays will be communicated promptly to backers.