In the meantime, series writer Barry Hutchison has a new book out that you might want to take a look at. The mighty Neil Gaiman gave it his stamp of approval, so if that doesn’t convince you I don’t know what will. Check it out here.

Don’t forget, we still need your donations to get the comic up and running. To find out what we need the money for, or to toss us some of your spare cash, go take a look at the campaign.

Also available, for those donating $150 or above, is this exclusive Gangrene T-shirt.

This T-shirt is only available to those donating over $150 to the campaign, and only a limited number will be produced. We are currently looking into producing other T-shirt designs which will be made available for sale here on the site, but for now, this is yer lot.

To help us raise the funds to get Gangrene finished and out there, visit our Indiegogo page now.

In return for their generosity and all-round loveliness, everyone who donates will get their hands on some exclusive goodies you can’t get anywhere else in the world.

To find out just what you could get, click on the image below. We’re taking donations from $5 USD and upwards, but you don’t have to be based in the US to donate. Your money’s good with us, no matter where you are in the world.

And remember, if you can’t afford to donate, that’s no problem. You can always help spread the word on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and anywhere else you can think of. It all helps.

Our goal is to raise $4000 USD in the next 100 days. This money will be used to pay our inker, colourist and letterer, and what’s left will go towards either printing or marketing costs, or both. Neither Barry (writer) or Neil (pencils) are taking any payment for the project.

Anyway, I really wanted to share this picture of Dan getting ready to blast some bad guys. I think it’s a fantastic piece of art by the creative team, who you can find out more about using the links down on the right of this page somewhere.

Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

Our hero, Dan, is determined he’s going to save little Kelly, but he can’t do it without your help. We need to raise 4000 USD so we can finish the GANGRENE mini-series, and give Dan a fighting chance at saving Kelly’s life.

Once completed, the comics will be published as four individual issues, before being packaged together as a collected edition graphic novel, with several pages of exclusive additional content.

But we can’t do it without your support. Every donation you make will go towards the cost of completing the comic. In return, you will receive some specially selected thank-you gifts, put together specially by our creative team. The more you donate, the bigger the treat you’ll get back in return.

We are currently working on putting together the list of rewards for donators. Once we have the list complete, we will post full information on how you can make your donation, help a passionate team of comic creators realise their dream and maybe – just maybe – help little Kelly get safely home.

What do you think? Leave a comment and let us know.

GANGRENE

In a city of corrupt cops, Detective Dan Green was among the worst. More crooked than half the city’s criminals, Dan would happily turn a blind eye to any situation, provided the price was right.

All that changed the night he died.

Two weeks after being murdered while investigating the disappearance of eight-year-old Kelly Maitland, Dan crawled his way free of the shallow grave he’d been dumped in. Something – or someone – had brought him back to life, trapping his fully working intellect inside the rotting body of a murdered corpse.

Believing he has been brought back from the dead to make amends for his past crimes, Dan resumes his quest to save the missing girl. Soon his living dead status begins to prove useful. He does not tire. He can feel no pain. Short of a direct hit to the brain, in fact, nothing seems to be able to stop him.

As the case progresses, Dan must battle the chainsaw-wielding kidnappers, a savage mutant French Poodle, and his own rapidly failing body, before confronting the mastermind behind the kidnapping plot – escaped criminal, Nathan Hogg.

A brilliant but delusional scientist, Hogg was jailed for illegally experimenting on humans. Before he was caught, he hid something he was working on in the first place he could – the blood of his baby daughter, Kelly. She doesn’t yet know it, but it’s there inside her now. Something incredible. Something that could change the world. And Hogg wants it back.

With his body about to fail for good, can Dan defeat Hogg and his army of genetically altered freaks, before the madman can kill the girl and take back the secrets hidden in her DNA?  Be sure to read the GANGRENE mini-series when it hits the shelves to find out!

Created by writer Barry Hutchison and artist Neil Chenier, the book is currently in production and – all being well – will be in a comic shop near you in the first quarter of 2009.

This site is where to keep up to date with all the developments on the series, and here is also where you will find not-available-anywhere-else exclusive sneak peeks of artwork and script extracts.

Notice I said will find.  There’s nothing up for you to see yet.  But there will be soon, so bookmark us and check back shortly, or all kinds of crazy bad stuff will happen to you.  That’s not a threat or nothin’, I’m just sayin’.

BH