“Raised By Raptors” is a comic written by “Bring Me The Horizon” front man Olli Sykes and drawn by illustrator and graphic designer Ben Ashton-Bell.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/90421494/raised-by-raptors-issue-no1
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The world of music and comics make regular collisions and sometimes with amazing results. It’s strange to think that even if you aren’t necessarily a fan of someone’s music you can still enjoy their comics. For me this was “Umbrella Academy”. Nothing against “My Chemical Romance” but they are not for me. But when “Umbrella Academy” came out I was totally side-swept. Hopefully this one will fair as well as some of it’s predecessors. “Raised By Raptors” is a comic written by “Bring Me The Horizon” front man Olli Sykes and drawn by illustrator and graphic designer Ben Ashton-Bell.
I bet for a second you thought I was going to be talking about the upcoming title “The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” by Gerard Way didn’t you? No?….you read the title?….oh…
The story of “Raised By Raptors” appears to revolve around a young woman who is banished and hunted by her tribe and ends up joining a pack of Velociraptors who take her in as one of their own. Based in a fictional world where dinosaurs co-exist along side a Mayan Civilization this already peaked my interest. The fact that I personally am a big fan of “Bring Me The Horizon” also helps but, if past experiences are anything to go by, this is not necessary to get into the tale. What first grabbed me was the main image used on the kickstarter page that had an almost Tank Girl feel mixed with some old school tattoo design mixed in there too. You probably picked up on the word “kickstarter” there. Yes this is as indie as it gets. No label as such and completely self funded this could either be a future collectors item or a total flop. Let’s hope it isn’t the latter, mostly because I myself am already an investor and am hoping for more to come from this title.
The story of “Raised By Raptors” appears to revolve around a young woman who is banished and hunted by her tribe and ends up joining a pack of Velociraptors who take her in as one of their own.
To get a hard-copy of the comic you will be looking at a minimum of £10 (postage to the UK included) but larger donations come with posters, t-shirts, signed copies, and more. With any luck it will become popular enough to be reprinted under a label as to make it more accessible to the masses but for now pop online and get yourself a little treat. Full disclosure though I have ZERO idea on how good this will be and am relying purely on crossed fingers.
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Posted on March 12th, 2013
Category: NEWS & VIEWS, SMELLS LIKE GEEK
Tags: Ben Ashton-Bell, Bring Me The Horizon, Olli Sykes, Raised by Raptors, Smells Like Geek, Steve Tasteslikedoom Fable