Back in November-December, a group of folks ran a Kickstarter campaign to get a superhero-based comedy webseries off the ground. They hit an unforseen snag though; they ran their campaign during the weeks leading up to the holidays, when people's money was tight and their attention was elsewhere. So unfortunately their first attempt was unsuccessful.
But now, like any good superhero, they've regrouped and they're running the mission again!
The series is called "Super Academy". It's about a group of students enrolled in a superhero training academy, and all the awkwardness and self discovery that happens at that point in life. It centers particularly around the shy and insecure Power Kid, whose greatest fear is people discovering that he's the son of a world-famous supervillain, and the brooding Dark Cop, an anti-social super genius with ego issues. They kicked things off with a 20 minute first episode
which you can watch on Youtube.
Shortly after that they
launched the KS campaign, with a modest $12,000 goal. It was well on its way, but as it fell so close to the holidays it didn't catch on like it otherwise could have. Since then they've been brainstorming about ways to improve the campaign, and setting things up to try again. Which they'll be doing soon.
On
April 18th they will be launching a new Kickstarter campaign, and they have been revealing several new videos leading up to the launch. New video shorts (I loved
Dark Cop's Valentines message!) as well as behind the scenes footage can be found
on their Youtube channel, and news and updates can be found
on their Facebook page.
The series' creator, Ben Lifson, recently sat down with Krnl Mandrake over at
Namesake Radio to discuss the re-launch. You can
listen to the interview here, and check out the Shows and Interviews section of
the forums for others if you like.
I'll be sure and update with the link to the re-launch as well as any other important news. Thanks for checking it out!
