New Pain 2-In-1: NPC JUMP #1-2 and THE NEW PAIN HANDBOOK!.

Fulfillment update!
16 days ago – Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 08:56:29 AM

New Painiacs!

It's been a longer road than we anticipated on these projects but I'm very happy to be able to tell you that books are being shipped out from the printer today and tomorrow, in two waves. Domestic backers should receive their books in 3-5 days and as always, a little longer for international backers to get theirs. 

If you're planning to take the New Pain Challenge, please submit your best guess to [email protected] . We had several interesting theories after the digital rewards went out, you guys are a creative bunch of readers for sure. Let's see if any of the rest of you can crack the puzzle once you get your printed copies. 

THE FUTURE...

We haven't begun working on JUMP #3 yet, aside from my having written the script over the summer. Carlos Reno has been tied up drawing a series for Mad Cave. We anticipate getting started in earnest by January and the tentative plan is to run a preorder campaign on Kickstarter in the March/April range as part of another 2-in-1 campaign with the long-awaited new SWITCH book from Tom Nguyen and I. 

Right, Tom? Right??!

IN THE MEANTIME!

P.U.N.C.H. #1 is fully funded and working towards its stretch goals. If you'd like to check the campaign out, we've added a couple of new reward tiers this week. 

You can see if the campaign is to your fancy HERE or by clicking the picture of Marshmallow attacking those Yeti above. We'd love if you checked it out.

Thanks for the extra patience on NPC JUMP #2 and THE NEW PAIN HANDBOOK. We hope you'll enjoy both!

Your bestie,

Keith Champagne

PROOF OF LIFE!
24 days ago – Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:54:45 AM

New Painiacs!

I have a couple of minutes before I need to jump online for a meeting and wanted to share some exciting news with you all...

THE PRESSES ARE ROLLING!

Really happy to see the books rolling off the presses and I'm told the interiors look great. I'll keep you all posted as things roll into the fulfillment stage!

And if you haven't checked out P.U.N.C.H., now's a great time. 70% funded on day one, hopefully with some extra elbow grease and gumption we'll hit the funding goal within a couple of days.

Happy Halloween!

Your bestie,

Keith Champagne 

Weekly update + new project launch tonight?
26 days ago – Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:37:02 AM

New Painiacs! 

I'm sorry to say there hasn't been any significant movement in getting the books printed since my last update. When I checked in last week, both of the print house's color printers were undergoing repairs and they weren't running. I've exchanged some messages today with our pal Joey, who you may remember from an earlier update physically prints our books. He's going to try to get the process moving. 

Just in case, we've sourced another printer that can handle this order and in those circumstances, I would then fulfill the books myself. I don't think we'll need to outsource to a different print house but if that changes, I'll keep you posted it. 

There have been several reasons this campaign has run late, from the art for the back up story being turned in a month late to missing our initial file delivery date to now these further mechanical delays. Whatever the reason, the buck stops with New Pain. We've fulfilled every campaign successfully to date and promise that everyone is going to have their books one way or another, as soon as possible. Tom Nguyen will go on a cross country tour and hand deliver them if necessary! 

In the meantime, the train keeps rolling. We've delayed our next campaign, for P.U.N.C.H. #1, as long as possible while the 2-in-1 campaign got sorted out but I have it on good authority that it will launch tonight, between 8-9:00 EST.

The purpose of these "SOFT" launches is to give our previous backers a chance to snap up the discounted tiers before the official campaign launch the next morning. If you guys feel comfortable supporting a new project before you've received your books from this campaign, we'd love to have you there to kick off the party. If you don't, that's perfectly understandable and there should still be time left in the campaign after you get your faces blown off by JUMP #2 and THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK. 

You can sign up here to be notified when the campaign goes live. Hope to see you on the other side, P.U.N.C.H. is a fun one, for sure!

Your bestie,

Keith Champagne

The next update since the last update
about 1 month ago – Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:18:49 AM

New Painiacs!

Wanted to send out a quick update to keep everyone in the loop regarding fulfillment of this campaign. As mentioned previously, the printer has the files for both JUMP #2 and THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK. I believe the books are in their printing queue and should be hot off the presses any hour now. They usually send me some pics of the books all shiny and printed up so I'll be sure to share those with all of you when I get them. 

Most of the original art rewards have already been mailed out. I'm sending another out this afternoon and will have one more left to send after that, which should get posted by the end of the week. I'm also mailing out the remarqued covers to the printer today; where they'll be bound with the interiors and sent to their respective backers. 

Kind of cool that the covers can be printed and mailed around separately, sure wish I knew that before I flew to Tennessee back in April to sign every single copy of Daybreak! #4. Small price to pay for a few hours of quality time with my good friends at the printing house though, so this guy ain't got no complaints!

And finally this afternoon, we're exciting to launch our next project, P.U.N.C.H. #1 in less than two weeks time! P.U.N.C.H. is an acronym for Pubescent Undercover Neuro-Diverse Cryptid Hunters and Rich Stahnke and I have had a blast putting this one together. These are not your daddy's Ninja Turtles, for sure!

The prelaunch page is live HERE (or you can click the pic) so if you'd like to join us for the 56 PAGE FIRST ISSUE, this one is a lot of fun. Just remember: THERE IS NO BIGFOOT! 

Or...is there?

Your bestie,

Keith Champagne

Digital Rewards released
about 2 months ago – Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 07:02:19 AM

New Painiacs!

Super quick update to let all of you know that 1) your cards were charged for shipping yesterday; and to collect addresses, which will be locked down shortly 2) the back up story was completed and the files have been delivered to the printer and 3) THE DIGITAL REWARDS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED. As long as your card was successfully charged, your copies of NPC JUMP #2 (and #1, if you added it on) and THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE NEW PAIN UNIVERSE should be waiting for you in your inbox along with this update. 

If you didn't receive your digital reward, please let us know at [email protected] and we'll double check the distribution. 

ALSO...If you plan on taking the NEW PAIN CHALLENGE for the second issue and guessing how the story will continue (because the #2 cliffhanger is pretty final), it wouldn't hurt you to skim The Jump-related entries in the Handbook first. Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't but you'll get some additional context to the characters that definitely won't hurt. You can submit your guesses to the same email address above. Rich Stahnke is not eligible to participate because he's already read the script to #3.

That's all for today, guys. Printed books (and other rewards) should be coming your way soon, I'll keep you posted.

Your bestie,

Keith Champagne