Top Cow’s President Matt Hawkins explains the reward tiers for the Cyber Force Kickstarter, for those doubters in the audience (I’m one, I admit):
We’re doing a black and white variant of each issue of Marc’s covers that is only available through Kickstarter… Marc [Silvestri] is using the original art for the cover to #1 as a higher tier incentive. The moneymaker will be the $50 tier, which will be the only way to ever get the hardcover of the first volume. Hardcovers seem to be what people collect now, and we only need to sell 1500 of those at the $50 tier — where you also get all five sketch variants — to raise the $75k we need.
Contrary to earlier reports, the series will be an ongoing, with only the first five issues – the first arc – being made available for free if/when the Kickstarter becomes fully funded. The idea of essentially monetizing variants and collections to the point where the regular edition of a comic becomes a giveaway is a weirdly devious one, a way of exploiting the collector mentality potentially for a greater good. For that reason alone, I now find myself hoping this works…
