
Just launched on Kickstarter from the creators of Helga Frankenstein is Captain Wylde & The Headless Mariner, a smashing-looking 44-page full-colour, self-contained supernatural pirate adventure from Kult Creations.
Captain Wylde & The Headless Mariner is set in 1727… the “golden age” of piracy. Captain Cinnamon Wylde is the scourge of the waters around Dead Man’s Straits… Raiding slaver vessels and freeing their cargo, along with her clockwork hand (only losers have hooks!) and her homunculus sidekick, Erasmus. But she has a deadly rival in the form of Captain Godiva Dunaway, who uses black magic and a crew of zombies to rule the seven seas.
Dunaway has plans to take Wylde down using an ancient curse and necromancy… She plans to raise the deadly creature known as the Black Reaper from the waves… a headless horror that can not be killed because it is already dead.



This epic book-length adventure on the high seas written by John A. Short (Shokwave/Helga Frankenstein/Reverend Cross) with full colour art by Gabrielle Noble (Savage! Jungle Princess/Spliffy: The Stoner Chick/Ardnox High). Get ready for clockwork sailors, sharks, voodoo and seas monsters!
As ever with John’s Kickstarter projects, Captain Wylde & The Headless Mariner comes with plenty of Exclusive Rewards, including a variant cover from Chris Askham (Switchblade Stories) and Sketches by Gabrielle, and Add-Ons such as the opportunity to buy the first two other full-colour, self-contained adventures with Captain Cinnamon ‘Sin’ Wylde from Kult Creations.
“It’s the most fun you can have with your eye-patch on!” says award-winning writer John, whose many credits include writer/creator of The Octobriana 50th Anniversary Special, Shokwave, The New Amazons, Reverend Cross and Helga Frankenstein. Scripting everything from children’s humour comics for Egmont Publications (such as Robin Hoodie & Rex! in Toxic Magazine) to underground comics like Rip Off Comix in the United States and Spliffy: The Stoner Chick across Europe.
• Check out the Kickstarter for Captain Wylde & The Headless Mariner here
• Find out more about Captain Wylde on this Blog from Kult Creations
• Kult Creations is online at kultcreations.blogspot.com
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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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