Help Fund Bill Corbett’s Graphic Novel: Super-Powered Revenge Christmas! [MST3K]

Bill Corbett of MST3k and Rifftrax fame has started a Kickstarter campaign to fund his graphic novel, Super-Powered Revenge Christmas! It would be written by Bill Corbett and illustrated by Len Peralta.

SUPER-POWERED REVENGE CHRISTMAS is a graphic novel using classic Christmas characters as the basis for an assembled superteam who fight off a conspiracy of powerful villains. It’s a comedy retcon of Christmas itself! The story brings the world of pop-culture Christmas characters — think Rudolph, the Grinch, and even those beloved people from “It’s a Wonderful Life” — into the universe of comic book superheroes.

This story-within-a-story opens in a dive bar on Christmas Eve, where a bitter comic book writer tells his fellow drinkers how he plans to revamp the Christmas characters he grew up with into something action-packed, dark, cynical and sexy, to suit the times we live in. He bets his long-suffering partner that he can win the barflies over to his version of Christmas, and proceeds to tell the story that begins by introducing its hero, the lone vigilante hero Red Avenger…

Red Avenger has been fighting the criminal empire H.E.R.O.D. by himself for a while, barely keeping one step ahead, barely staying alive. But as H.E.R.O.D. and its alien cohorts make a final push to enslave the planet, some unlikely super-allies emerge. Can they band together and stop this global tragedy?

Rewards for pledging money include being drawn into a crowd scene in the graphic novel, receiving a personalized comic strip based on your life, or even having lunch in person with Bill Corbett and Len Peralta.

To learn more about the project or make a pledge head over to Kickstarter.