BOOM! Studios has announced a Kickstarter to bring us the ultimate The Dark Crystal 40th Anniversary Library. For the first time the complete collection of BOOM!/Archaia’s Dark Crystal comics and graphic novels will be available in a seven volume collection. Here’s everything included:
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JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL: CREATION MYTHS HC
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JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE HC
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JIM HENSON’S THE POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL HC
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JIM HENSON’S BENEATH THE DARK CRYSTAL HC
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JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL ARTIST TRIBUTE HC
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JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL: THE ILLUSTRATED NOVELIZATION HC
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JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL TALES HC
Original Dark Crystal creator Brain Froud was paired with acclaimed comic creators including Si Spurrier, Philip Kennedy Johnson, Joshua Dysart, artist Matthew Dow Smith, artists Kelly & Nicole Matthews and more for these seven volumes. The collection comes with 5 oversized hardcovers and two supplemental volumes bound in faux purple leather and foil stamped with an ornate invocation of The Great Conjunction’s sacred alignment.
Additionally, BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company are offering specialty items, merchandise, and bonus offerings including limited edition box sets featuring bookplate signatures by Brian and Wendy Froud in each volume, premium Dark Crystal posters, art prints, and world maps featuring artwork by Mike Huddleston and Iris Compiet, remarqued art plates featuring original art by illustrator Cory Godbey, collector’s coins, 40th anniversary apparel, and more.
With all these offerings, if you are a Dark Crystal fan you will not want to miss this Kickstarter. You can check it out until it ends on November 14.