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CL Brown's avatar

BLACK CLOAK VOLUME 2 SQUEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLL

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

<3

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mike g's avatar

Oh man, i better look through the posts from last year’s x-men war as a refresher course (sorry Kylun. Someday i will remember your power set). Still firmly on the side of Team Luck. C’mon probability manipulators!

Not gonna lie, the title of the choose your own adventure story definitely takes the pressure off voting then second guessing my voting.

This is all very exciting. Looking forward to all of it.

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Haha.

I heard from the very clever Ryan North when researching and building M&LMD that readers ALWAYS go for the wildest option...so I'm curious to see if that will bear out. Gonna be fun!

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mike g's avatar

oh interesting and for sure!

That will be neat to see if we follow Ryan's experience as well. I'm totally keep track of my votes to see if I go with the group. Just out of curiosity, were you going to add a quick bit about what would have happened if the vote had gone differently?

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Honestly? I don't know.

This obviously isn't a true CYOA type of story -- because that assumes all the different paths are written -- and that readers can go back and read the paths not taken. Instead this is the readers and I working together to create one path (that starts with my outline but becomes something else). And that's a very different thing.

HOWEVER. Depending on how this project goes -- I can totally imagine going back and writing alternate endings or alternate paths -- maybe for a published volume we could do something like that?

I think a lot of it is going to depend on the quality of the story we ultimately get out of it and also how the experience went.

This is the project on the slate that I am most excited about and also most concerned about (in that I am a control freak and this deliberately has very few controls on it).

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mike g's avatar

That would be super cool if it turned out well enough for a possible revisit for alternative endings. Looking forward to both the story and seeing how it turns out.

Thanks for trying it out Kelly. I am optimistic that we won’t always choose the wildest story path. Well, maybe. Anyway, i will try to stop and think before i vote. Probably haha

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Damon Gray's avatar

WOO!!! Oh so many things! Can’t wait to get a copy of The Cull in my hands! WAR 2.0?? What a win!

And before anyone panics, I think it’s $70 for the year not per month! (Right? 😅)

Can’t wait for another great year on the Sub! The Stack? Stack. Yea I like that better.

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Adam is OFFICIALLY FIRED AS PROOFREADER!

Amazing error. I've corrected it. Thanks for the catch!

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Ryan “Jabo” Jablonski's avatar

THIS IS AWESOME!!

Like... so much awesome!! I don’t know where to start- but I’m all-in either way!

Thanks for keeping the Cull week festivities going strong!! Can’t wait to read it tomorrow!!

And War 2.0?! Bring it on!

I’m using too many !!!!!!!!!’s

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Thanks, Ryan!!!!!!!!!!

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Joe Loves Comics's avatar

Sweeeettt ah so much awesome stuff here!!!

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bill's avatar

I have been waiting for this moment YAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Can't wait for everything coming, Kelly!!

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

<3 Thanks Bill. So excited to have you along with us!

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Smhoak's avatar

Amazing

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Jacki (AppleJ)'s avatar

Woohoo!!! Exciting!!! 🙌

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Rob Graham's avatar

I would have commented on this when I received your email a few hours ago but I was so blown away by all the amazing announcements, I got the vapors, swooned onto my fainting couch, and was unconscious until just now. (My partner tells me that I was grinning like one of the Joker’s victims the whole time I was out.) Black Cloak 2! The Cull! The back catalog! Margot & Layla Must Die! X-MEN WAR 2.0!!!!!! I- I- I…… Uh oh… iT’s hAppEniNg AGaIn… *swoon*

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Thanks so much, Rob! <3

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Alex Segura's avatar

I LOVE ALL OF THIS!!!!

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Thanks, Alex. <3

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NarrativeMic's avatar

So excited to vote this time! Team wolvies all the way down to Johnathan!

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NarrativeMic's avatar

But mostly Laura....

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Same.

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Michael Shaw's avatar

So much joy packed into one post! Incredible. Thank you.

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Jon Auerbach's avatar

Let's gooooo!!! Can't wait for everything, including The Cull tomorrow!

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

I know! Feels like a lifetime in the making! lol

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Hanno Friedrich's avatar

I'm in. Can't wait for the cornucopia of delights that's coming toward us.

Greetings from Germany.

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Thank you!

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Mperer's avatar

Are you able to ship to Canada if I win a giveaway?

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Yup!

International backers are eligible for all giveaways/contests!

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Mperer's avatar

I will be getting the annual subscription in that case.

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Thank you! I hope you win something! And enjoy all of it! <3

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NarrativeMic's avatar

Subbbbbbbbbscribbbbbed!

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

<3

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