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Blast Off With Bronarr: Space Barbarian In Strange Kids Club Magazine #5

Published Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:00:50 -0500

Pre-orders available via Kickstarter—Ends April 26th

Rondal Scott III writes,

It's been a year since our last issue, but not without good reason… we were busy giving birth. Not in the literal sense of the word, that'd be sticky and gross—no, it's more like a metaphorical birth that's led to the creation of a brand new hero. Not a super-hero like the ones you see on TV these days, more like a hero you would've seen on Saturday mornings during the 80s; a hero bred of tragic circumstance, a little bloodshed and manufacturing companies looking to sell action figures, breakfast cereals and/or sugary snack cakes. I'm speaking, of course, of media franchises like Thundarr, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Conan the Barbarian. Our new character, Bronarr: Space Barbarian, springs forth from this legacy of barbaric heroes like the hairball of some giant cosmic cat-god… majestic, hairy and drenched in questionable bodily fluids.

The ultimate warrior hero—a combination of magic, machinery and muscle—Bronarr stands as the Defender of Freedom on a far-off planet called Sa'Barr where a peaceful race of not-so-highly-intelligent creatures (Stargoolians) are being terrorized by an evil overlord named Lord Gammax. Sounds pretty awesome, right? Well, that's the basic premise of the fictional cartoon series that Strange Kid, a boy with an unusually big imagination, and his pals Lando, a smart but relatively normal kid, and Orwell, a giant purple chupacabra who only speaks Spanish, find themselves trapped in after inadvertently opening a portal to another dimension (again). Unlike last issue, where the boys unleashed hell on Earth, this time they're taken on an intergalactic fun ride and plopped right in the midst of Bronarr's battle against Lord Gammax. The only chance they have of getting back home? Help Bronarr save the universe, duh!

While I take full blame… er, credit for creating Bronarr and this action-packed space adventure I'd be lying if I said I brought it to life all on my own. That blame… sorry, credit goes to two talented gentlemen, writer Benito Cereno (Tales from the Bully Pulpit) and artist Jonatan Cantero, who distilled my incoherent Red Bull-fueled ramblings into an easy-to-follow and (more importantly) fun science-fantasy misadventure. Then there's animator Pat Kain and background artist Adam Davis who put together this amazing animated intro for Bronarr's fake cartoon series (below). Oh yeah, and the dozen or so writers and artists who also contributed to this new issue… come to think of it, I owe a lot of people money these days. Good thing I launched a Kickstarter to pay them all… some of them… okay, so I've got an addiction to cheese puffs and I'm looking to score.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1a5zEfLq88[/youtube]

Look, we're not out to change the future, save the children or even cure world hunger (though I suppose paper is edible)—Strange Kids Club Magazine is about tickling that inner child of yours. It's about making you laugh, keeping you entertained and, if we're lucky, making you remember how amazingly rad your childhood really was. Don't take our word for it, though. Check out the project for yourself, chances are you've got a strange kid roaming around in that adult-sized noggin on yours somewhere—let him stretch his legs a bit, will ya?