Last reminder! Be sure to message me directly here on Kickstarter, or via BackerKit, for questions about your rewards!
over 2 years ago
– Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 07:51:49 PM
Just wanted to throw out one last notice for folks who have any outstanding issues or questions about their rewards; please be sure to reach out to me here on Kickstarter via a direct message or on BackerKit (which results in convenient email correspondence). As of right now, all issues with rewards that I've been made aware of have been sorted out with orders that were re-packaged and/or resent.
As of now, I'm moving full-steam ahead towards Lordran & Beyond: 2nd Edition! The next book, currently tallied at 110 pages of comic material, will also be funded via Kickstarter and is planned to launch early next month!
As of today, all backer rewards, all pre-orders, and all re-sent orders are shipped!
over 2 years ago
– Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:59:10 AM
This morning I dropped off the last few remaining packages that faced prior delivery complications, so as of now ALL rewards should be shipped! Obviously if any other issues prop up I'll tend to those and make additional shipments as necessary, as soon as I'm able to.
Thank you everyone!
All United States pre-orders are shipped, as well as nearly all international orders!
over 2 years ago
– Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 12:41:15 AM
Just wanted to give a heads up about the status of the order fulfillment! As of yesterday, over 90% of orders for L&B 1st Edition, across the Kickstarter campaign and pre-orders, are shipped out! I'll be sending out the final wave of international orders later this week, and then everything will be either in transit or delivered!
Beginning next week, if you're a backer who pledged for a physical reward and but still have not received any email or notification about your rewards being shipped to you, please message me directly and I'll look into it ASAP!
All rewards for United States backers have been shipped! International rewards and pre-orders are actively being prepared.
over 2 years ago
– Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 05:36:51 PM
As of this morning, all rewards for backers living within the US have been shipped out! Backers should also be receiving emails about the tracking information for their rewards.
For international backers, your reward packages are actively being prepared! Since international shipping can be quite a bit more complicated, and costly, I'll be sending these out in phases in order to catch any potential issues or mistakes, but I don't expect it to take longer than a week or two for ALL international shipments to be sent out.
For folks who pre-ordered after the conclusion of the campaign, you'll have 48 hours from the time of this post to change your entered address, so it doesn't hurt to double check that your book will be sent to the correct residence! If your payment method was declined, I'll be attempting to re-charge for orders this Thursday, August 5th. After that, orders will only be charged if the payment methods are manually updated by the pre-ordering users.
If you're a backer and, within the next two weeks, you still have not received any email or notification about the status of your rewards, please message me directly and I'll look into it! Once I've gone through the remaining batches of rewards for international and pre-ordering users, I'll work diligently to resolve any hang ups or straggling orders.
Thanks everyone! I can't wait for everyone to finally have this in hand! Once your copy arrives, please @ me with your reactions on Twitter (@cursedsirkai)! I'm so excited to see folks receive their rewards!
Highlighting changes and updates to stories featured in 1st Edition!
over 2 years ago
– Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 10:04:53 PM
Hey everyone! As mentioned earlier this week, I wanted to make a post showcasing some of the adjustments and changes made to the material in the 1st Edition PDF and graphic novel. Please keep in mind if that you want to discover these updates for yourself naturally, or have yet to read the L&B stories in 1st Edition before, I would recommend visiting this post after you've indulged in the book since this will closely examine the endings to a couple of stories!
First and foremost, obviously, is that the lettering for the dialog in every story has been almost completely redone. This was already advertised heavily during the campaign so it's not a new feature, but what is new is the ending page for the Bloodborne story starring Maria and Brador, "Strident Bell."
Almost the whole page went under a significant redraw. The original intent with the conclusion of Strident Bell was to present Maria in a majorly threatening, intimidating way. Ultimately, my original writing and page direction wasn't really considerate enough to nail the tone as hard as I would have liked, but I think the redone ending that Veitstanz and I worked on fulfills that original purpose much more potently by using her iconic pose to cast her shadow over Brador's figure.
While speaking of Strident Bell, Veitstanz did a fantastic job of cleverly editing and reformatting the whole story! Strident Bell was original drawn in a 5:6 aspect ratio, while most other L&B stories are drawn in 1:1.43. Without sacrificing any style or impact, Veitstanz used the original project files to subtly nip and tuck the pages to fit the formatting for 1st Edition. My original solution was going to be to letterbox the pages with borders at the tops and bottoms of the Strident Bell pages, but Veitstanz undercut this brilliantly.
Another story with a significant alteration with its ending is Incense. Since the story is intended to feel a bit lighter in tone than some other L&B stories, and it ends more optimistically, I originally opted for a sort of comedic/slapstick style final panel of Gascoigne naturally being very keen about how to place the warning message on the gates into Old Yharnam.
While revisiting the material, I decided I wanted the story to end more thoughtfully and lead in more honestly to the events of Bloodborne as depicted in the game, and Veitstanz came in clutch again by updating the art on the page to reflect the new ending.
Also, this doesn't speak to the content inside the book, but for the purposes of marketing the Kickstarter, Veitstanz did a cool edit to the gruesome panel in Strident Bell where Brador transforms his Bloodletter while fighting Maria.
Veit and I both agreed this panel is one of the best pieces of art in the entire book, and we wanted to use it to highlight 1st Edition as a whole. However, the violent and gory nature of it in its natural form isn't extremely suited to being plastered casually on website banners and tweets, so Veit created a PG-13 variant for it to fit appropriately. Naturally, the original blood-spewing panel is still presented without alteration in the book itself, as well as on the L&B website.
So those are the major story changes for Lordran & Beyond 1st Edition! I hope you'll find these bits of info and examples interesting to read!
