Farscape is having its 25th anniversary as one of the most innovative science fiction shows ever to grace television. The show went for four seasons plus the Peacekeeper Wars specials, but also had a four year run with an official continuation done in comics form from 2008-2011. Now, for the first time, the comics are being collected together in a Kickstarter to celebrate this milestone for the show.
BOOM! Studios launched a Kickstarter today to commemorate the Farscape 25th anniversary, complete with a two-volume hardcover set for the Farscape comics. There are several options which include limited collectors boxes and slipcases, something for die-hard fans to latch onto with the show’s complete archives.
Within the first several hours of the Kickstarter launch, the Farscape 25th Anniversary Comic Celebration reached more than $170,000, showing the dedication and interest from the Farscape fanbase. BOOM! Studios has a hit on its hands once again through this Kickstarter collection.
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The Kickstarter is pitched as follows:
n partnership with The Jim Henson Company, BOOM! Studios proudly celebrates the legacy of FARSCAPE with a brand new 25th Anniversary comic book special alongside a complete two volume book set collecting the entirety of the BOOM! Studios’ FARSCAPE library and limited edition commemorative collectibles available exclusively through this BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign!
Debuting twenty-five cycles ago, the groundbreaking space opera FARSCAPE bucked decades of science fiction conventions, coupled ambitious story-telling with breaking new technical ground, and inspired a generation of fans around the globe in the process.
Written by show creator Rockne S. O’Bannon, the FARSCAPE comic books pick directly up from where the series left off. The comic books are an official extension of the storytelling of the original show, created by and under the guidance of the original show creator and The Jim Henson Company. And now, in this BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign, all of these stories are collected in two gorgeous hardcover volumes that will find an honored place on your bookshelf, as well as the first new original FARSCAPE stories in over a decade!
Take a trip through a wormhole to the Uncharted Territories and discover new stories starring Crichton, Aeryn Sun, General Ka D’Argo, Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan, Dominar Rygel XVI, Pilot, Moya, Chiana, Scorpius, and all of your favorite characters from the FARSCAPE franchise. But don’t waste a micron, let alone an arn, in reserving your copy if you don’t want to miss out on our EARLY BIRD bonus item and our most limited edition tiers!
“My name is John Crichton, an astronaut. A radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole. Now I’m lost in some distant part of the universe on a ship, a living ship, full of strange alien life forms. Help me. Listen, please. Is there anybody out there who can hear me? I’m being hunted by an insane military commander. Doing everything I can. I’m just looking for a way home.”
There’s no better introduction to the beloved television series, created by famed Saturn Award-winning screenwriter Rockne S. O’Bannon and produced by The Jim Henson Company, than the one spoken by John Crichton in the opening credits of the first two seasons.
The television series ran for four seasons from March 1999 until March 2003, and has lived on through the two-part Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars event limited series, novel, and, of course, a variety of comic book series from BOOM! Studios.
Now, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary, BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company return to the world of FARSCAPE with both a brand new story and a complete library of the previously published BOOM! Studios’ comic books in exclusive BOOM! Direct Reserve limited editions!
With 22 days left on the campaign, this Farscape 25th Anniversary Comic Celebration from BOOM! Studios Kickstarter is sure to reach an incredible amount of funding. It appears there’s a big market and enthusiasm for Farscape.
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