Dumbing of Age

The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter reached the next stretch goal of $45K on Good Friday, unlocking the PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier!  That’s right, Christ has fallen and DINA IS RISEN.  Take that, LORD!!!!

Pledge at the PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier to get a Dina magnet along with your book!  (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!)  Or if you’re aiming for Dina plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers!  And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign?  Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!

Up next?  Jacob, I think, at $50K.  I don’t have a silhouette for him yet.  Still trying to decide which look to go for him: exercise wear?  casual wear?  It’s a quandry!!!  But there’s a surprise magnet reveal popping up soon who’s not Jacob!  They do have a silhouette.

The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter has passed $40K, which means: Double magnet unlocking! The HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnet tiers are now available! Or get both of them (plus the free DOROTHY magnet) by pledging to the HALLOWEEN BILLIE AND RUTH magnet tier! And, of course, if you went all-in on a COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier, consider them added to your pile.

Don’t want the whole run, but want a choice of three magnets? Of five magnets? Then the PICK THREE and PICK FIVE magnet tiers are there for you.

Scheduled next is the PAJAMAS DINA magnet at $45k! Plus, you know, sudden surprise magnets may occur. (well, a surprise if you don’t recognize distinctive silhouettes) And even more TBA!

As the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter completes its first day, we’ve hit a second stretch goal: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS for everyone!!! (who pledges for something I snail-mail to you) Pledge for a book, there’ll be a Dorothy magnet in there, no extra charge! Pledge for anything that’s not just PDFs, that’s a free Dorothy magnet! Pretty rad.

The $30K stretch goal spot used to belong to the perennial “extend weekend comic strip updates for another year” thing, but…. look, my buffer’s out a whole-ass year. 365 days. The stretch goal of “I’ll keep updating 7 days a week instead of 5” is just kind of ridiculous on the face of it. So out it went! And I skooshed up the Free Magnet stretch goal to take its usual spot.

Next up: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnets at $40K, with probably a surprise magnet reveal along the way, to keep us on our toes.

Reminding Myself That Despite What That Sign on the Highway Says, Hell Isn’t Real will collect “Year Fourteen,” spanning the four storylines that start on August 16, 2023, and complete on August 16, 2024. This includes new commentary, behind-the-scenes artwork, rejected/unused strips, and piles of new character designs into a 220-page tome with luxurious glossy paper all bound up into a sturdy, full-color presentation.   It’s fancy!   There’s 24 new Patreon bonus strips collected!  And, as always, there’s a buncha character magnets you can grab along the way.

plus tariffs, lots of tariffs

There are two character magnets you can pledge for right off the bat, and this year they’re SAL and DANNY! Get just Sal+Book! Get just Danny+Book! Get both Danny and Sal+Book! All things are possible. And if/when we reach $30K, we unlock DOROTHY MAGNETS FOR EVERYBODY who pledges for mailable goods!

Here’s to 30 days of me being on an adrenaline high as I run this thing while the world falls apart. Phew!