Crowdfunding Comics — ‘Sherlock Holmes And The Empire Builders: The Gene Genie’ Vol. 1

Tripwire’s Joel Meadows and Andy Bennett have a new comic book campaign currently running on Zoop for Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders: The Gene Genie Vol. 1. A story that takes one of the UK’s most famous literary detectives and throws him into unfamiliar sci-fi territory, as explained by the synopsis accompanying the campaign:

“Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is an epic alternate world sci fi adventure featuring The World’s Greatest Detective as people have never seen him before.

When Watson leaves Holmes to help Crick unravel the DNA helix and finds himself in the employ of England’s most evil man, Holmes is forced to team up with an unlikely group to defeat this monstrous figure and return England to its status quo. With your support here we can get the first part of this exciting graphic novel out to readers!

Testing the waters with three shorts which ran in Tripwire magazine, we felt that now was the time to debut this in its own graphic novel series. This will be a hardcover with a dust jacket running at 88 pages with 68 pages of story (much of which will be new material) plus character sketches, script pages and an interview offering extra information on the series.”

As well as sporting a regular cover by Mark Chiarello, you could also grab a copy with a variant cover from Liam Sharp or even Walt Simonson.

You can check out the campaign page here and read a preview below:

Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders: The Gene Genie Vol. 1 is live now.