IDW Launches ‘Kill Shakespeare’ Board Game on Kickstarter

Originally published on The Flickcast.  19 February 2014.

Friends, Shakespeareans, gamers, lend me your ears! IDW Games has launched aKickstarter campaign for a Kill Shakespeare board game, based on the graphic novel series.

With a goal of $25,000, Kill Shakespeare is the first joint venture between IDW Games and Pandasaurus Games. The campaign includes perks such as lithographs, posters, custom dice and of course the game itself, at a deeply discounted rate. Stretch goals are also in place to expand game content to include additional characters and quests.

The game itself is a semi-cooperative board game where players are one of Shakespeare’s heroes battling against his villains while completing quests from the Bard himself.



“We’re excited to give fans – both old and new – this early-bird opportunity to check out the board game,” Anthony Del Col, co-creator of the Kill Shakespeare comic series, said. “This is the first game from IDW Games, and we’re blown away by how amazing it’s shaping up to be – they’ve done a fantastic job of adding to our already-expansive world. We’re glad that this Kickstarter campaign will allow audiences to get copies before anyone else, and we look forward to hearing back from everyone throughout the campaign.”

Chief among the backer perks is the option for the first 250 people to get the game itself for $40, a $20 discount from the suggested retail price. Beyond that, backers can still get the game for at least $10 off SRP as well as additional content such as the full Kill Shakespeare comic series on digital download and a 22-page booklet, “The Art of Shakespeare.” A Deluxe version of the board game, packaged to look like a antique Shakespeare book with a leatherette case and gold foil, is also available.

“Kickstarter offers us a platform to truly connect with the fans,” IDW Games Director, Jerry Bennington, said. “We invite backers to take an in-depth look at the game we’re delivering and to comment on what we can do to deliver the best possible tabletop gaming experiences.”

Visit the Kill Shakespeare Kickstarter campaign to check out additional perks and details about the game.

Trailer Released For Fan-Led Inquiry Into The Demise of Superman Lives

Originally published on PopWrapped.tumblr.com.  1 September 2013.

Back in 1997, a Superman movie starring Nicolas Cage was nearly made but before Superman Lives could get off the ground, the film was scrapped. Now a trailer for the feature-length documentary, The Death of ‘Superman Lives’: What Happened?, has emerged to provide fans with a peak into the strange film that could have become a cult classic. 

Superman Lives would have been, by all accounts, the weirdest Man of Steel movie ever. Set to be directed by Tim Burton and with Kevin Smith as its writer, the film was rumored to feature a flightless Superman with a suit that glowed with electricity. He would still battle timeless villains like Lex Luthor and Brainiac. However, he would also take on polar bears and giant spiders. The script drew from the comic book story, Death of Superman, which also featured Doomsday as a main villain. Superman Lives, which was set for release in 1998, eventually died away, with Cage leaving the project in 2000.

In March 2013 Cage said in a MTV interview, a portion of which plays during the documentary trailer, that he believes Superman Lives would have been something special.

“At least it’s out there in the ether that that could have happened, but we don’t have to make the movie,” Cage said. “It’s still interesting to people.”

One of those people is Jon Schnepp.

Intrigued by this movie that never happened, he sought out to make a documentary about Superman Lives. Funded via Kickstarter with the help of more than 2,100 backers, The Death of ‘Superman Lives’: What Happened? chronicles everything about the abandoned movie. The documentary is set for a December release.