Four hours left.
11 months ago
– Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:57:53 AM
The briefest update: our campaign is 4 hours from its end. If you're already a part of it, we thank you, we will likely thank you again.
If you're not, we thank you anyway, you've done a lot for us. We're proud of the book, we're not printing it again, so just one final heads up.
Iván Brandon and 500+ fully painted pages of Marvel Superstar Nic Klein.
Drifter Omnia http://kck.st/4isqKog
Last chance to get our ridiculous 9 pound hardcover (48 Hours Left)
11 months ago
– Tue, May 13, 2025 at 08:13:40 AM
I want to say that DRIFTER is one of those moments where a band just all reach their peak together but really it was me bringing my Viking co-creator Nic Klein a small idea and him handing something back that was so big it dragged Tom Muller and I into its orbit. (if you've seen Tom's award-winning redesign of the X-Men marks, this project lead to me being asked by Jonathan Hickman to put them in touch)
I doubt I’ll ever be part of something this ambitious again. We all have that aspiration in the morning but it’s not til you’re floating briefly in that space you realize you don’t really know how you got there or how to find your way back.
I’ve never seen anyone do what Nic did in this book. I don’t know what it cost him, or if it was worth it in the end, but I’ll spend my life hoping one day he’ll take me back.
Drifter:Omnia is like our monument to that time.
There are 48 hours left to back it, we've spent the last month adding upgrades: sewn binding, spot gloss, fluorescent ink — and this is now far and away the wildest, most ambitious volume any of us have ever produced.
I found an old interview with Nic from the original run where you can see his process.
This is the kind of book we want to be making. And if it’s the kind of book you want to read — that’d work out pretty well for both of us.
Last 48 Hours. Let 'er rip. http://kck.st/4isqKog
One week left — and a thank you, again
11 months ago
– Wed, May 07, 2025 at 07:00:09 AM
Hiya —
If you’re getting this, you helped bring The Roman Stars into the world. Our first book, and honestly? We’re still riding the momentum.
A couple weeks ago I wrote to say thank you (ugh, stop thanking us) and to offer something small in return: The Unsent Letter, a found artifact from our new book’s world -- EXCLUSIVE TO YOU.
Ok that sounded infomercial-y. What that means is it’s not for sale. It’s not in any tier. The only way to get it is by being part of both campaigns. If that’s you, we’re sliding it into your shipment like a secret handshake.
A bunch of you already joined us. If you haven’t yet, this is your reminder: the campaign ends in 7 days.
The book is Drifter: Omnia.
500+ pages of sci-fi, memory, and rebirth — our attempt to make something strange and permanent.
Same writer. (me!) Same level of obsession. (also me!)
Here's an interior page, by series artist Nic Klein.
If you’ve been meaning to check it out: suit up. We need you.
And if you already have — thank you again. None of this happens without you.
Here’s the book. It doubles as a battleship:
http://kck.st/4isqKog
— Iván
Team Deathray
Regretfully sincere email below
12 months ago
– Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 08:35:25 AM
I’m standing on a line in midtown for Japanese donuts as I write this so please know I am pre-humbled here.
This email is going out to backers of The Roman Stars, our first publication. Last week we launched our second: DRIFTER OMNIA, by far the biggest book I’ve ever had anything to do with.
Nic Klein, Tom Muller and I did the original series at Image. We were ridiculous, there wasn’t a pixel of those book files we didn’t mess with. (We literally designed the UPC symbols)
This is our attempt at building a giant permanent fortress for that work, preferably in your home.
That’s not entirely why I’m writing to you from this ridiculous place.
We want to make weird unique stuff. It’s legitimately the only thing we want to do. We want coming along with us to be rewarding, in whatever sense of the word you want to use.
So we made something. Literally just for the people reading this email. It’s a letter, found in the wreckage of the ship at the center of this story. The letter does not appear in the book, or in the campaign, it won’t be sold anywhere (unless you sell yours, I guess?)
If you pledged already, we’ve already added one to your profile. If you haven’t? This is your incentive, yes. But it is also a sincere thank you. A small one, but still.
We hope you check out this book. It’s one of the rare books we’re all positive we’re still proud of all these years later.
This email was longer than I intended, sorry. But I wanted to write it myself and I’m on a donut line, which is also longer than I intended.
Anyway, thanks. Check out the new book here. http://kck.st/4isqKog
-Iván
(Nic and Tom are also grateful but aren’t dumb enough to be on this line with me)
DRIFTER OMNIA IS LIVE!
12 months ago
– Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:38:11 AM
Before The Roman Stars, there was Drifter.
500+ pages of sci-fi chaos and haunted memory—painted by Nic Klein, written by Iván Brandon.
Now rebuilt as a single object: Drifter: Omnia.
For the next 24 hours, your name can be printed in the book.
This version will never exist again.
From the writer of The Roman Stars and Team Deathray.
Now on Kickstarter.
http://kck.st/4isqKog
