Day 1: We have lift-off!

Yippee!

We've launched! It may not surprise many of you that I stayed up late to press launch mere minutes after midnight. Up to that very moment I was adjusting numbers and updating images! The party promoter in me insisted I do the math and add those 20% Off bursts!

This whole endeavor is a series of experiments in marketing & promotions; updates like this one also act as notes for the Do Better Next Time column. But I'll spare you too many details on that front, it should be a future blog post. For these updates I plan to aim for a more celebratory Welcome and Thank You!

So, in the spirit of that sort of fun - I could use your help. I'm hoping to come up with with a pithy title for these updates. Subscribers to my just-back-from-hiatus PLUGOarts MUSEletter will most likely know what I mean. But the best I could come up with was the alliterative Untitled Update #1. Looking at it typed out, maybe I should've gone with Space Journal after all. The price of a late night.

Staying up late (even after hitting launch) also made for a slower morning. But the delight of recognizing names among my first backers added a welcomed spring in my step. Something my life-coach was eager to make use of – time outside and away from (most) computing.

Returning to my workstation I can now take a few moments to compose this update and personally thank the fabulous five backers whose immediate support moved this fun little campaign to the 24% mark before the end of its first day.

Thank You

• Stephanie Pitsirilos a true to life Sci-Fi hero (& Wuxia Warrior) bending spacetime to be backer #1 exactly 15 hours ago - almost before I hit launch 🔮🕳
• Ken Lamug the newest addition to our growing community - his own campaign is fantastic! Go Petro!

• Sarah Giles: Stalwart Supporter, Friend and Occasional Collaborator.

• Kurtis Fujita: Kung Fu Master, Comic Creator, Kickstarter Collaborator, Friend and Co-Host on THE COMICS FU SHOW

• and let's call our last one The Backer with No Name!

Talk about an amazing starting line-up. From this starting point I'm hopeful that we can reach Legion of Super-Heroes level of inclusion to our ranks. But for now, a special something.

As of this writing our author Alex Hernandez has taken off on a more personal and much more epic journey – out there in the world. So in his place I will share with you some of the earliest resources used to develop what would become this precious project. These three Pinterest Boards which Alex curated for this purpose.

and most Importantly…

I'll have more to share in the near future.

So until then!
PLUGO