With just days remaining in the hugely successful Jonathan Coulton/Greg Pak Code Monkey Save World graphic novel Kickstarter campaign, Pak has laid out some final stretch goals which, if they’re hit, could bring even more content to the fans of the already twice-expanded graphic novel.Currently, the campaign has generated $276,000 and has four days left before it’s over. The graphic novel itself has about doubled in size and a children’s book, as well as other additional content, has already been added to the package for many buyers. So what’s next? Here’s Pak:
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If we hit $280,000, we’ll expand the graphic novel another four pages to 100 total pages! And we’ll add another two page story from “Action Philosophers” creators Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, who are prepared to tell the real world history of Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the larger-than-life antihero of the faux history Coulton song “Kenesaw Mountain Landis.”If we hit $300,000, we’ll expand the book YET AGAIN to 104 PAGES! And superstar cartoonists Ruben Bolling (“Tom the Dancing Bug,” “Super-Fun-Pak Comix”) and Adam Koford (“The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats”) will headline a group of funny-drawing-types who will riff on various Jonathan Coulton characters in newspaper-style strips in several pages of “JoCo Funnies” that will be included as an extra in the “Code Monkey Save World” graphic novel! Writer Greg Pak may even return to his cartooning roots to contribute to this section — he has his eyes on the Coulton song “Blue Sunny Day” — and a sad but funny li’l vampire character. JOCO FUNNIES, you guys! Let’s get ON this!If we hit $325,000, we will include a short comic book story inspired by Jonathan Coulton’s beloved song “Mr. Fancy Pants” as an extra in the graphic novel! Jonathan and Greg have been aching to find a way to include Mr. Fancy Pants in the book from the beginning. And now that dream is within grasp. SHARE OUR DREAM, FRIENDS, AND GIVE FANCY PANTS A CHANCE.
Of course, ComicBook.com already knew some of this. During our roundtable interview with Coulton, Pak and artist Takeshi Miyazawa, the three of them all expressed an interest in bringing Mr. Fancy Pants to the project–and Pak even hinted at a story involving Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who in the real world was the first Major League Baseball commissioner).
