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Joe Harris Launches The Great Pacific As A Kickstarter Comic

Published Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:31:56 -0600

Bleeding Cool talked about Joe Harris and Martin Morazzo' Great Pacific comic as a series planned for Image Comics in 2012. And while that may still be happening, the production will be funded through Kickstarter.

Here's how the comic is described;

Great Pacific tells the story of Chas Worthington, recent heir to one of the richest oil fortunes and most successful corporations in American history. In a defiant act that seems crazy to most and criminal to many, he sheds his former life of wealth and influence to settle the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, planting his flag and declaring the environmental wasteland a new, sovereign country.

Set upon a floating island of plastic refuse and trash estimated by scientists to be twice the size of Texas, and based on the true-to-life environmental catastrophe currently plaguing the Pacific Ocean, this series will explore a young man's attempt to tame this terrible new continent with the help of an astounding new technology that could change the face of the energy industry. But first he'll have to contend with the elements, harmful pollutants, mutated marine life forms that have been exposed to the toxic refuse his nation is built upon, and hostile natives from nearby islands. Looming beyond those immediate physical dangers is the United States government, which sees him as a reckless and dangerous fugitive who needs to be dragged back to the 'States using whatever means necessary.

Brian Bendis has been vocal in oppposition to name creators using Kickstarter, believing it would hurt their reputation – and fearing issues around the trust system. Warren Ellis has says that he sees it more as an advance payment form of distribution. Could a Kickstarter project from a name like Joe Harris change things at all?