Live on Kickstarter: ‘Starweed’ The Complete Series
by Austin Gorton
Starweed: The Complete Series from co-creators Eisner-nominated and Eagle Award-winning writer Lex Wilson and artist Tony Gregori — including the final installment of the three-issue sci-fi noir adventure — is now live on Kickstarter.
From the publisher:
DNA acquisitions agent (or “graverobber”) Digs steals famous corpses for druglord Hooper, who relies on her for the raw material he “soaks and smokes” into vapeable Starweed. Digs would prefer to not rely on anybody, and justly feels that her adventures would be less chaotic if she didn’t have to clean up the mistakes of her intern Taj every mission.
But when Hooper scapegoats Digs to the Feds and Taj gets caught in the crossfire, she has oodles of time in spacejail to reflect on what’s important in life. Things like killing Hooper in the face. Or in the gut. Or maybe getting a cat. Will Digs escape her orbital prison even if she has to take the “long way” around the sun? Will a rival drug lord exact revenge on her before she can exact revenge on Hooper? Will she figure out how Hooper’s Starweed supply is doing just fine without her? And isn’t a herd of dinosaurs kind of like a cat?
“Starweed was so fun to write and collaborate on,” Wilson said . “Over three issues and a hundred pages, Tony would take my ‘Is this too much?’ script and go ‘not yet, how about this?’ He, Claudia, and Lauren just kept surprising and delighting me with their trippy but grounded choices. Each issue covers tons of ground—multiple planets in some cases—but in their hands it never felt rushed or too dense. As a reader and as a writer, comics can offer cannabis-like joy and euphoria, seriously the same silly grin on my face when new pages arrive in my inbox. Also, as with actual drugs, the experience is so much better when shared. Digs might never admit that, but I will. I’m gonna miss these characters, and the people who brought them to life.”
“With Starweed we hoped to create a fun comic that readers would enjoy, without the use of intoxicating substances,” Gregori said. “Alex’s script was a blast to draw, with varying set pieces and snappy dialogue. And Claudias’ psychedelic colors truly bring it all together. From Red Square, to The Bieber Space Prison, then Earth 2, and finally back to the o.g. 3rd Rock From the Sun, this book goes on a journey that I hope folks enjoy reading as much as we did making it.”
In addition to the comic, the campaign includes sticker art from Sarah Stern as well as prints by EJ Han, along with the chance for backers to be immortalized as celebrities or weed strains in the Starweed universe!
To learn more about the campaign, visit https://starweed.com.
