Kickstarting Comics: Mark Millar Launches Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Saga ‘Conquered’ Vol.1

Fresh off the success of his recent Kickstarter with John Romita Jr. for Psychic Sam, Mark Millar has revealed his latest campaign. And this time it’s for a comic book series he dreamt up in his early teens. One, he even had the confidence to post off to DC Comics. Well, that one original idea – the other was a Superman pitch — is about to become a reality as he teams up with artist Valerio Giangiordano (Nemesis: Rogue’s Gallery) for Conquered. A post-apocalyptic fantasy Millar tells The Hollywood Reporter is a mash-up of the premises behind both Independence Day and Game of Thrones.”

But, if you have signed up for his newsletter, then you will have read the following about this new series of graphic novels:

“The basic premise is that the power goes down in America’s biggest cities like New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles and everyone is plunged into darkness. Then a mile-wide portal opens up and literally millions of barbarians charge through to murder us, some on horseback, others flying bad-ass dragons and followed by every lumbering, axe-wielding ogre and giant my 13-year-old hand could draw with a biro.”

The first graphic novel in a planned four-part saga is live on Kickstater now, and runs through October, and will be published by Side Hustle Comics. There, you can see the various pledges you can back, starting at an affordable £18 (around $25 US) and including a signed hardcover edition (at £45/$61), with a very special Platinum edition, for £735 (roughly $988), which you will only be able to get as only three owners of this edition.