– So it looks like the Kickstarter will be launching early next week. I’m still trying to come up with some cool rewards and incentives to offer this time. Some of the stuff we did last time… well, it didn’t work out so well or ended up costing a lot more than it brought in. So I thought I’d share some of my ideas this time and you could all tell me what you think. Keep in mind, the goal here is to generate as much money as possible. This isn’t a complete list, of course.
Reward ideas:
– Mini print set. 3 new 8 x 5 color prints featuring brand new art. These are small enough to ship with the book but large enough to display.
– Season 2 Print + shirt. Last time the Season 1 print was a big hit. I ended up offering a shirt with the same image to people who contributed enough to get Chocodiles, but didn’t want them (usually for dietary reasons). This time i’d like to offer the shirt and the print together to anyone that wants it! the Season 2 print/shirt image is similar to Season 1, but a bit more badass. I think you’ll dig it.
– I thought it would be cool to offer custom user avatars. So I’d draw you (either the real you, or the you you want people to see) as a 6 x 6 illustration. You’d get the original art, plus digital versions that you could use as forum avatars, Facebook and Google+ Id’s or whatever LiveJournal user pics. Is Live Journal still around?
– I plan on offering some original art from Season 2.
– Write a strip! Is this a cool idea? You write a strip, I’ll draw it?
– A custom, hand drawn dust jacket for the Season 2 book. Really what this would be is a 6 x 25 inch piece of original, hand drawn and colored art. You could use it as a dust jacket or frame it or whatever.
So those are some of the new reward ideas. Here’s some of the stretch goals:
– More bonus comics. Just like last time, I’ll do 3 pages of extra comics for every $1000 we go over our goal. These comics will feature Jake (what’s he been up to?), Medus and Urano (from their adventures when Marah was passed out from the Ghost attack), the Snakes… who else? Who do you guys want to see in a comic?
– Medusa papercraft doll. My friend Tyler Tinsley has offered to produce a Medusa papercraft doll. Everyone will get one of these if we raise X amount of money.
– Pirate comics by Patrick Devine. Did you like the Pirate comic Patrick did the other day? We’ll get him to do a whole bunch more for the book if we raise X amount of money!
– A big bonus story. For the Season 1 book I did a big 10 page comic called Ghost Story, featuring the Ghost and Jake. For Season 2 I plan on doing a similar 10 page comic featuring another important character. If we raise enough money I’ll do an extra bonus 10 page comic as well. So that will be like 20 pages of extra comics!
So those are my ideas. What do you guys think?
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Also, I’ll be at Wonder NW in portland this weekend. Stop by and say hi!
I have no idea how practical (or likely impractical it would be) but a Medusa plush would be super awesome incredible. If not for a kickstarter reward for sale in the store.
Baring that, little statuettes of various characters would be cool as well.
I’ve been looking at both ideas, but neither will happen here. We will have a plush thing that you might like though.
Bonus Comics ideas
More Charles because he’s hilariously awesome.
Momdusa’s Knights off the clock.
Everything else you suggested sounds awesome
Also More Stickers, Maybe Trading Cards?
Charles and the Knights? Sure, why not. I can do more stickers. I hadn’t realized people liked them that much. Trading cards would be cool, but… maybe next time.
Well I meant Charles bonus comic was interesting even if it was only an *purchase the book to find out what word this is*
Also It’d be interesting to see Chainsaw Unicorns free time. I bet that guy with long hair spends alot of time in the salon.
While I like the idea of you illustrating a comic I wrote, I bet this would be a MAJOR pain for you. Probably worse than the walk-ons.
Just thinking about waht could happen if I ‘bought’ this award…. I know not one thing about writing comics. My ideas wouldn’t really flow. You’d need to fix them, then ask me if I liked it, then deal with me complaining….
Then multiply that by all the rabid Medusa fans that like this idea.
I fear we would all end up starting a kickstarter to pay for the bail money after you snapped.
It might work if I the reward was to pick a general idea for a comic like Medusa vs. Predator or something and let you actually make it work.
Well… that is a concern. I’ve been a freelancer for years, so I’m used to dealing with difficult writers. I’m also planning on limiting this reward to 5 (and seriously vetting each one). I don’t think it’ll be that bad!
A trip to the land of Yeld. This package includes free passage down Jake’s toilet, accomodations in the Prince’s dungeon and having your brain sucked by a real ghost.
Hmm. for $50 bucks you can come and stick your head in my toilet. That’s cool.
Hey, that’s my toilet now. I demand a cut!
So it was 5 minutes before quitting time before a 3-day weekend when I read that. I don’t really want to stick my head in your toilet, I just didn’t have time to think of any good ideas.
How about create a villain/minion. They can be just briefly mentioned (the prince takes a stroll through his picture gallery of evil) for now, but any that are well recieved by the readers can be worked into a future story arc or expansion of the MLoY RPG.
Hmm… Possibly.
I know we’re not supposed to ask about the mute kangaroo, but how about some bonus comics with the mute kangaroo?
I guess? Is that cool, Will?
According to the terms of the first kickstarter I’m going to be killed and will therefore have no say in anything that happens to Lou the Kangaroo from that point on.
1 shots of whisky, 2 shots cherry sours, top off with coke.
watch a few episodes of “TNG recut” on youtube with a coffee.
leave mind to stew for an hour or so or return to step 1 if not inspired yet.
I love the write-a-strip idea, but it’d have to be off the main plot arc. I really like the avatar idea, too. T-shirt, count me in. Bonus chapter last time was outstanding. It’s probably too late for the Chainsaw Unicorn hat but that one really cracked me up. I’d love a MM mouse pad too.
The Chainsaw Unicorn Hat will be available for sure! Mouse pad is a neat idea. I’ll look into that.
AS for writing a strip… yeah, it would have to be a one shot or something.
…oh, and I miss the kangaroos too. 🙂
Maybe there could be a Kangaroo bonus – at $XXX you get a bonus The Silent Kangaroos strip/side/story.
I love getting extra content!
It’s in.
A bonus comic with the mermaids.
I have other plans for the Mermaids, but if we run out of characters for Bonus comics I guess I could do one with them.
You could incorporate some of the upcoming Yeld game into the rewards, NPC, town, monster or item named after someone, etc.
I could, but I’d like to save that kind of stuff for the Yeld Kickstarter. Also, it feels weird to promise something for a separate project.
Here’s my idea on a Yeld based modest medusa Kickstarter item.
A List of Cursed Item Ideas. {Assuming they dont have their own page in the Yeld book} Because it’s fun trying to think of ways to use Cursed items to benefit the user.
I wasn’t kidding when I said that we put your name on the Cursed item list. It now reads “Jerus’ Cursed Item List”. But yeah, that’s a fun idea. Lets save that for the Yeld kickstarter in August.
Yeld Kickstarters going to be in August? Thats my birth month Oh you know i’m going for at least the 50 dollar level on that one
How about a comic that tells the secret of why Yeld’s residents wear glasses?
Hmm…
The story of Yelds Glasses. Long ago everyone in the land of Yeld had perfect eyesight until one day the God of Carrots realized nobody was eating Carrots and cursed them all to have poor eyesight unless each citizen ate 1000 carrots each However this soon caused a Carrot Famine {And Lead to an Eggplant Overabundance]. The Citizens of Yeld who hadn’t reached their quota were doomed to a life of mixing up Potions and Poisons or not recognizing what Pokemon was on the DS and wasting their Master Balls on Pidgeys. Until a Stranger from the Other World came. He was an Ophthalmologist who dabbled in Engineering and Architecture and thus he began work on designing glasses for all of Yeld’s citizens who needed them. He trained a successor and now lives in a Massive Tower Shaped like the Eye of Sauron wearing a Monacle.
I can buy that.
I was hoping for more guest starring. I kind of regret not getting it, as i would fit well into any fantasy setting in my daily wear (cape and a broad-brimmed green hat) Though maybe that could be incorporated into the “wirte your own strip” deal.
Custom avatars sounds awesome.
There will be more guest starring, I’m just limiting it to a few people this time. Last time we had 11,and that was just too much.
Hey Jake remember you wanted to do more with those gamestop employees. They could have their own bonus strip
Oh, hey!
Forget my mute kangaroo idea from earlier, THIS IS THE BEST IDEA.
I find them all fantastic ideas. As for when it starts, you are sure before the 1st at least? I have a military thing that has me gone from the 1st to the 29th and I’m hoping to choose the reward myself rather then trust mothers judgement.
Pretty sure.
Looks like Medusa is 3 words farther along than you, Jake.
Bonus comic idea:
Each person who contributes upwards of a certain amount gets to feature in a one-panel B&W similar to the “Jake & Medusa kickstarter ideas” panel above. No more than 3 word balloons (maybe in the format Question; Answer; Punchline).
Hmm… kind of like a smaller version of the guest appearance thing? That could work.
Hey Jake you ever see “He’s not the Messiah He’s a very naughty boy”?
That sounds familiar.
It’s a Monty Python Opera made fairly recently based on The Life of Brian
Okay. I think I was kind of aware of it.
I had an idea but upon further inspection it’s either
A. Already be done by you
B. Detract from the plot of strips
A Modest Medusa balloon at Macy’s parade and anyone who donates tons of money (enough to pay for the book and offset the cost of the balloon) gets to be one of the handlers.
I had a weird ass dream. So i thought i’d share it here. I was in a massive minecraft mine landscape although slightly less blocky but at equally odd levels of elevation in it the Criminal minds gang was out at this oddly built warehouse looking for a psychotic Jamie Kennedy and his girlfriend who were killing people after making people choose who else died and then finding was to compare them to people Jamie had his own grudges against. Not entirely sure how it ended up. But then it became an Anime/commercial about a new form of punishment that deletes your memory and shuts off your consciousness and sub concious so you werent dreaming you were literally not existing until reviving you to face your crimes and you had to shut yourself off each time you were revived unless you wanted to face what was called a Stare Persona. and the blonde anime girl who was facing hers confusedly said “You.. Your me?”
and then i woke up
I’m… not sure how to offer that as a kickstarter reward. Maybe for $10,000 we can fly you to someones house and you ca tell them that story in person?
Thanks for sharing.
Nahh i already gave it up for free besides you have like a hundred good ideas already I just thought i’d mention it because it was weird as hell.
Also It was because of Ideas Like Mine that you ended up revealing Momdusa too early in the season 1 book.
Again sorry about that
I like the avatar idea, too. I bet lots of fans would enjoy seeing themselves as Jaketoons.
And when used on other forums and webcomics people would say “Hey where’d you get that neat avatar?” and you’d say “Oh you like it Jake richmond of Modest Medusa Made it for participating in the Kickstarter. What you’ve never heard of it well hey check it out maybe you can get one during the season 3 kickstarter and even if you dont you still will have a great webcomic to read”
Oh hey Jake here’s an Idea. An Large glossy {that means like the book pages right?} Picture of The Cast Autographed by You, Marah, Charles, and others I’m not sure how Modest would Autograph it unless you let the girls she’s based on Sign one signs Modest one Signs Medusa but then you’d have to limit how many people can get that so they wouldn’t wear their arms off doing autographs. Dunno just a thought
That’s a good idea
How about a high end prize, Jake and Marah fly out to you and take turns reading both books to you?
See a High End Prize of Jake Flying out and reading sounds like an over the top high end prize but when you include Marah in it you just make it sound creepy.
Thing is, people pay for things like this. I personally know one of the backers of an RPG KS who’s reward is for the owner of the company to fly out and run a 6hr event and have a Q&A.
By The Way Jake I was thinking about Medusas name since for right now at least it’s Modest Medusa until you officially give her a name I’ve been trying to combine her inspirations names to make a nice middle name and so far i got Maddney, Maddy, Siddox {Siddox sounds like an pretty awesome pokemon}
Pretty good. I actually (finally)have plans for her name this season.
I sent you an email Jake asking a question about something that isn’t time to address in the comments yet {I think}
Answered, as much as I can.
Prints, product, guest appearances are what’s been done so far.
Prints – there’s not a whole lot more that can be done with this that hasn’t already been done.
Products – similar other than suggestions for more products that can be made.
Guest appearances – well, that one sort of blew up in your face last time around. It was/is great, but you’re actually planning on scaling it back this time around, so trying to add ideas to it doesn’t help much.
Intellectual contrabution is the only other idea you’ve had and the only other serious idea I’ve seen so far. Personally, I would love to do a guest strip some time if I had any graphics capabilities/programs that wouldn’t make Medusa look like a character in an early 80’s arcade game.
I read the rules for Ocean (of which I will try to get a pick-up game going at Origins – yay Origins – later this week) yesterday. Running a similar type thing that takes place in another part of Yeld might be interesting, even if it were only posted in prose form with a few illustrations for the final draft that gets stuck in the back of Book 3. Great advertisement for your game, lots of fun for the fans, etc. General rules – people who contibute $x.xx are given their order for posting, they’ve got a certain amount of time to post when their turn comes up or their character gets lost, everyone has to be hnest with their own dice rolling.
Hmm… I’d love to see some Yeld role play, but that might be an idea better served for the Magical land of Yeld rpg kickstarter in August.
Of course, if someone wanted to organize something like that before hand… that would be awesome.
Oh here’s an idea instead of having The Furry Pirates in the book itself you could have a week of them on the site.
Hmm, yeah. That would be cool. I’ll think about that.
Not just mousepads, couldn’t you get an actual custom mouses with medusa or someone on it? Sort of like how they have make-your-own Tshirt websites?
I’m looking around but not seeing any for a good price. If you happen to know of one please pass me a link.
a stuffcrust pizza with every preorder of your book hows that for a kickstarter idea
How about an soft cover art book, showing off meduse, the mermaids and the other characters.
That would be cool. Unfortunately there’s not a lot of Modest Medusa art that isn’t already on the site or my tumblr, and I don’t have a lot of time to do more right now. I do like this idea though and I’d like to produce something like this at some point. maybe for the Season 3 kickstarter?
Had another idea – what about a Modest Medusa jigsaw puzzle? I don’t know what it costs to have those made though. Maybe you could sell it in your store too?
Just a thought.
I don’t usually post here, and I don’ t know if it would be to expensive or anything but what about some sort of Modest Medusa Sticker/s?
Stickers are in!