There’s still time – just – to back John A. Short and Gabrielle Noble’s new self contained action-horror comic, Reverend Cross: Defrocked!
Their modest Kickstarter has already hit target, but if you’ve missed out on the fun the team have been having with this rather unusual comics hero, or some of the other great projects John and Gabrielle have created in recent years, now’s your chance to catch up.
For those who came in late: Reverend Abigail Cross (collections of her previous adventures available!) is the first ever female vicar action hero, who’s licensed to kick demon ass! Armed with an ancient angel sword that’s bonded to her and obeys her commands, she deals with the creatures that the normal authorities can’t… The vampires, werewolves and zombies that secretly infest our world!
(All this, while, to the world at large, Reverend Cross appears as nothing more than the parish priest to the sleepy English village of Sunnybrook!)
In her first ever feature-length, full-colour mission she will face things she has never encountered before… Can she deal with the monsters and Gods of Greek mythology while being cast out of the Church that has trained and armed her?! Things might never be the same again when Abby finds herself DEFROCKED!
Reverend Cross – Defrocked! is a 44-page American comic sized, full-colour, square-bound, self-contained action/horror/adventure comic written by John A. Short & illustrated by Gabrielle Noble.
Alongside backing the project, rewards include the opportunity to pick up copies of back issues of Captain Wylde, Helga Frankenstein, Savage! Jungle Princess, or/ and exclusive Kickstarter exclusive rarities from the team.
• Check out Reverend Cross: Defrocked! right here on Kickstarter
Meet The Team
Bournemouth-based John A. Short, founder of Kult Creations, is the award-winning writer of comics and stuff whose projects include The Octobriana 50th Anniversary Special, Shokwave,The New Amazons, Reverend Cross and Helga Frankenstein. He’s written everything, from children’s humour comics for Egmont Publications (like “Robin Hoodie” and “Rex!” in Toxic Magazine) to underground comics like Rip Off Comix in the United States, and Spliffy: The Stoner Chick across Europe.
Gabrielle Noble, aka Gabby Noble, is British comics artist, but has produced strips for the US and Europe as well as the UK. She has drawn erotic strips for many Eros Comics anthologies and had strips published in America’s Hustler Humor magazine. She drew “Brit Starr” in Britain’s Men Only magazine for two years. Her “Spliffy: The Stoner Chick” strips for Soft Secrets have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Polish and read by around 100,000 people across the continent. She also drew episodes of Hunt Emerson’s online comic strip, “Ardnox High”.
Back in 2012, she drew the four issue comic series Savage! Jungle Princess for Kult Creations/Gabbys’ Comics. In 2013 she drew the all-female super-team comic The New Amazons, featuring cult comics character, Octobriana. She is currently illustrating the regular monthly comic strip “Ms. Fortune” in Britain’s Mayfair magazine, written by long-time collaborator, writer John Short. Her mother is very disappointed in her.
• Check out Reverend Cross: Defrocked! right here on Kickstarter
• Check out the dedicated Reverend Cross blog for back issues and collections
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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