To read: Chris Schweizer’s Outlaw‘s Apprentice
You may know Chris Schweizer from his work on everything from 6 Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton to The Creeps series, and he’s back with a tale of swashbucklers and swords. Outlaw’s Apprentice debuted a few weeks back on Webtoon, and it’s as fun as it sounds:
Otis is a teenaged artist-in-training, but when he and the former mercenary to whom he is apprenticed find themselves on the wrong side of the law, they have to make their escape across the country with the law, bounty hunters, and old enemies dogging their heels.
This has the same spirit and vibe as another Schweizer project, the Crogan Adventures series, which were stories about a family set in various adventure settings throughout history. It was a fun, ambitious project that ended after three books (though Schweizer later shared details on a fourth that never saw print). With this one, Schweizer has been working on it since at least 2022 before launching it on Webtoon. Like I said, this looks like fun, and I can’t wait to see it completed.
To support: The Forgotten Five
There are about five days left on the Kickstarter for The Forgotten Five by Alex Segura, Sara Century, Pat Kennedy and Dean Kotz. They’ve been running the story through Patreon for the past few years, and are now seeking funds to bring the first 60 pages to print.
The story is set in two different time periods: in the early 2000s, where a shady outfit called The Contingency abducts five super-powered teenagers and tries to turn them into weapons, and then in the present day, where the teenagers are now middle aged and living their lives when a threat from the past calls them back together. It’s got conspiracies, cosmic threats and a lot of heart, and the team has already passed their funding goal, which means you’re guaranteed to get the goods.
Check out Kickstarter for more information and to pledge.
To hear: The Fireborn theme song
When you have someone with the last name “Jonas” on your creative team, I think you can expect to get a theme song, right? Franklin Jonas, the younger brother of the Jonas Brothers, is co-writing the Lost Fantasy spinoff with Curt Pires, and his band Franklin Jonas & the Byzantines, recorded a song to support it. Take a list above, or add it to your playlist over on Soundcloud.