Greetings my great and mighty Loyalist,

As the impending Launch of Envy Issue 4 and Volume 1 is upon us, I wanted to do a quick reward preview for you all and go over the details of some shipping situations.

Background Character Tier!

This is exactly what it sounds like. As I create and develop more properties for American Demon Comics, I will be needing to fill up those pages. This will include upcoming titles and future Envy updates. So if you want to be an illustrated part of this world forever, now you can. This isn’t strictly just for your own self, but this is open to an original character, given the appropriate setting.

Digital Commission

Request a digital commission! Anything from my world or yours, as well as anything demon, fantasy, pin-up, or cryptid. Some things I will not do, such as angular robots, big two IP’s and adjacent (Darkhorse/ Image), or furies. I want all of these to be shared within the American Demon Comics umbrella and projects. For example, if the commission is decided and requested to be in the book before the end of the kickstarter, I will have it put in the back with bonus content! Oh, and this also comes with your core products and only holds 10 slots!

Shipping Details

US rewards will have free shipping! Most tiers will have shipping to EU, UK, AU, and CA and it is quite expensive, but the option is there. However some of the more complicated or heavier tiers will have to remain US exclusive. So be sure to check those options as you decide.

There are plenty more tier options and, of course, you subscribers will be first in on the special deal links!

The Best of Indie

After reading the most recent, Hellhound on my trail, Bigfoot Knows Karate is not only brutal and action packed, but also hilarious. Seeing the Chupacabra dual wield shotguns was not in my aspirations in life, but i’m certainly better off now after seeing it. Check out the upcoming campaign later this month!

Bigfoot Knows Karate: God killer

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Greetings my mighty loyalist,

As it stands, we are approximately one week from LAUNCH for Envy Volume 1, but as one must warm-up the crowd before a headliner, I would like to introduce you to some top tier talent and campaigns going on right now!

Ned Kelley: Werewolf Hunter

Ned Kelly returns as Australia’s most infamous outlaw this time battling werewolf lawmen in a brutal action-packed horror graphic novel

CHUM

Sinners & sharks collide in the definitive edition of Ryan K Lindsay & Sami Kivelä’s steamy surf noir graphic novel for mature readers.

Luminous Ages

Luminous Ages returns—bringing the legacy of Volumes 1, 1.5 and 2 and the long-awaited arrival of Dragon Ascension Volume 3

Next Friday, Phenex engages the Souleater! Stay tuned for the upcoming update of the demonic epic, Envy.

Lastly, I will be at this year’s Huntsville Pop Culture Expo! I am giving out a free print of Envy in front of the Saturn V. If you are attending and would like a sketch on the back for $10.00, feel free to leave a comment or reply to this email.

Thank you all so much for reading and please give these cool cats a follow on Kickstarter!

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Greetings my loyalist,

I am ever exploring theories on dreams and how they work. After Jordan Peterson brought the Jungian/ Nietzsche ideals of dreams to my attention I have been fascinated. For whatever reason, many people don’t like these thinker’s opinions and hypothesis of dreams, or maybe the over reliance of this tool. Even so, these ideas that dreams help you stay sane makes so much sense. To experience amnesia and hallucinations would seem rather concerning for any other time. Though, for the unconscious to face fears, symbolically understand practical problems, and so on. It’s ideal.

This brings me to Eric Wargo. Eric holds to an interesting theory called the block universe. This is a simple and considered thought that everything is happening all at once, with no future, past, or present. Everything just -is-. This is linked to his idea of precognitive dreams, or dreams that can tell the future. More accurately though, access the block universe and convey what happens to you in the future. But it’s not a foretelling as much as it is a memory.

A woman stepped into Carl Jung’s office for his psychiatric and examination care. She describes in her dream a golden scarab being handed to her. During this explanation, a beetle local to the area that matched a scarab was tapping against the office window. Jung proceeded to open it and seize the beetle between his fingers. He stepped forward and notioned, “Here is your scarab.”

Jung calls this synchronicity, but Eric considers this to have been a time loop and recognition. That Carl handing the bug to her had already happened before and that her dream was remembering the event before it happened.

Now Eric has kept an extensive dream journal. Years and years of dreams. He said that year to date dreams seem to be pretty common and gave his own examples.

One was just a year a part and was akin to a astral projection. He could see himself looking into his wife’s shoes on the floor of their closet. He didn’t know why, he just was and their cat “weighed heavy on him” meaning his concern for his pet was high. The same dream had him in his study room seeing a pair of green eyes looking at him from a strange place. Right at almost a year, give a day, he had dropped an advil in the closet. Worried his cat would get it, he had to rummage through his wives shoes to find it. Later, he noticed two lights coming from a power source in his cables and he realized he dreamt this. He verified after looking back at his journal.

Listen to the episode below or go check it out on youtube or Spotify. The Why Files is always a very thorough and comprehensive source for thinking. I always recommend AJ and Heckle.

Precognition is an astounding proposal, and I am excited to try it for myself. I have my journal ready to go by the bed. It’s difficult to get yourself to write in the middle of the night, but I’m confident the effort will reap reward. Even if precognition isn’t the outcome, there are a ton of things I would like to visit in my subconscious.

Thank you all so much for reading!

Don’t forget to check out Envy’s upcoming launch on Kickstarter!

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Greetings my mighty loyalist,

A question I have been regularly asking myself is, am I too desensitized? Perhaps talking about it will give us some answers.

As I have gone about showing and selling my comic, I understand it is a bit… much. I’ve been said to have “an interesting mind”. Though, personally. I really don’t see it as that crazy. I in fact think it should be and will get crazier.

Some may think this is on purpose, like it is an effort of trying to be shocking, but I just find it to be, realistic? You know, understanding demons, veils, and soul eaters to be real in this place, we’re still humans. We’re more fragile than we like to think. We’re also more resilient then we can conceive, at times.

But me personally, I haven’t really shocked my own self of this violence. I mean, I enjoy making it for this setting and to maybe fulfill the horrific aspect of the plot, but it’s not really disturbing me, and I’m not sure if it should.

I do want to bring more psychological aspects of horror into it. That would be more of a challenge to fulfill for the way I think. So maybe the foundations for that has started to be set with this dressing of violence. But honestly, the story has gone so much more into a Shonnen type of genre. So, perhaps that is just my strength rather than weakness. The violence HAS set the stage for more risk, and that is something I am trying to maneuver for the finale.

What do you think? Am I disturbed?

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Gaz is fresh in the afterlife and already facing new challenges. This may be too long for Email inboxes. Visit Americandemoncomics.com or this substack to read the whole update.

To be Continued…

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Greetings my great Legion,

At the moment, my Kickstarter prep is coming to a close. It’s lies in wait as the launch is approaching. So this frees up some time to discuss something that I may have mentioned in passing before, but it weighs on me greatly.

Paranormal Photos

People assume in the modern era of technology that things in the photographic world continue to grow and exponentially expand technologically. However, the basics remain, and have somewhat plateaued, similar to vehicles.

Cars have been the same since their inception, engine, 4 wheels, and oil. However, they have come a long ways in iteration. To me, though, it seems that they have pretty much stayed the same, stripping away screens and electronics. The transmission was a big step, I suppose, but so was film to digital.

Much the same can be said about the camera. Bare with me now and my one semester in photography, but you have the aperture, focus, and shutter. These components are in your phone all the way to a professional camera and work similarly. A real camera has a lot more range, but it is still subject to many many variables.

So, when taking a picture, the photograph’s greatest ally is bright light that feeds into the aperture. If you lack light, even in soft shadows of tree canopies, it can change the outcome of what a photo captures tremendously. So a camera has a nice little tool it utilizes, for quick pictures, inside it called ISO. What this tool does, is it takes what pixels of light the camera can read and expands them. However, this obscures the overall picture because all these light pixels are distorted as they expand. This exposes itself the most in automatic camera shots, which is what is default on phones, and not the best way to take pictures for a professional grade camera.

How does one defeat this problem with light? Well, you can have a flash, which does nothing in dim or dark woods because the light of a flash just spreads through the great openness before you, OR you can get a tripod and a tether button. The shutter of a camera can be slowed down so that all the light in the area has time to be observed by the camera’s mechanisms. However, a slow shutter speed requires absolute, rigid steadiness of the camera and the subject. Even pressing the button on the camera with a finger will still cause a blur; So enters the tethered button and tripod. This opens another can of worms in the photo taking process of a fleeting moment that can happen as fast as 3 or 4 seconds. So not only do you have to EXPECT to see something significant in a SPECIFIC spot, but it has to be ABSOLUTELY still to not turn out blurry.

Zooming in also calls for similar steadiness. The further a zoom goes out, the shakier it gets because the area being observed is getting smaller and smaller. Have you ever tried to take a picture of a brilliant, vibrant, beautiful moon on your camera? Yeah, always turns out awful. Videoing something is subject to many of the exact same variables.

I do recall that phones are taking better pictures now with AI as far back as 2023. But that still just calls into question what the camera sees, not what is actually in front of you. The AI is just filling in the gaps of what the photo is “supposed” to be.

I really recommend checking out this video as YouTube’s Bob Gymlan demonstrates all these conundrums at the very beginning. Just without the knowledge of a cameras I have.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s just not that simple to capture a convincing photo. Even if a crystal clear photo was taken, it’s going to be denied as concrete proof. I think anyone in the paranormal field discussion should have come to this conclusion by now. But those of you outside of it should be a little more thoughtful when one is brought before you.

Thank you all so much for your reading.

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Greetings my mighty Loyalist,

The year is turning in full swing. Parts are moving, the season is changing, and the dead stir. My friends Kris and Chris are indie comic creators that have an undying, burning, PASSION for all things indie and indie comics. They have collaborated with a handful of new talent between writers and artists so that they too can create their dream stories! I present, AHA! A Horror Anthology. These creators are making horror and it’s bloody, it’s psychological, it’s what you love. SO! I decided to chip in and create some fan art for them from one of the story synopsis I read. Now, this piece is not lore accurate per se, but it was beloved by the creators. But click it, and you will see the greater schemes this strange alliance has wrought.

• This Project launches March 25th, 2026

Ser William and Lady Kay

AHA! A Horror Anthology

Now Join us over at AHA and give this campaign a follow!
You can also find Chris and Kris on Substack

• Kris Mendoza

• Chris Stall

• CHK Comics

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Greetings my great Legionnaire!

I am back with another indie comic review. Instead of a promotion, we’re doing a reaction. Thoughts? Opinions. So come with me in this deep dive of this intense horror Blood of the Grunch, by Clay Adams.

The Rundown

So we’re brought unto a remote island with a recovering(?) couple. They’re stressed and looking to unwind, at least. Scott and Casey. It seems to be an exclusive get away for a select few only called Luxuria. No doubt this is by design of the strange widow cult that runs the whole thing, but we’re a little in the dark here too at the moment. Once these pieces are moving we meet Guy, a jock type of chad. Casey is off-put by his presence, but I’ll let you read that yourself. I can tell you, those two are up to NO GOOD.

So once the couple are comfortable, a crazed widow peers through their window and speaks out against the resort in fear. They flip out and the head widow “deals” with the crazed woman. As their punishment is fulfilled within the widow organization, we then meet the Grunch. A great hulking goat reeled back to it’s haunches. It’s an imposing and strong creature that stalks the island, though, outside the Luxuria gates.

My Thoughts

This story holds no punches, and was a ton of fun. The characters all seem to have a little more going on under the surface and there’s a touch of spice. The most intriguing to me is the widow cult, as most questions surround this aspect of the story.

So, the story is solid. But the quality is outstanding! The art as a whole feels like a house style but it is so crispy and clean. The anatomy, dynamic shots, backgrounds and energy all work great together. Most importantly, the lettering is wonderful! When a read is fluid such as this one, it is certainly more entertaining. Perhaps something I fall short on in my own.

All these attributes brought together stitch a very nice comic, and I’m looking forward to the next.

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I hope you enjoyed that new piece of my indie world!

For us, the next installment of Envy will be this Friday first on Patreon!

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Greetings my phenomenal Loyalist,

I have an offering of knowledge behind the scenes of my fruitful, deep, and insightful process. It’s about the legendary and awe inspiring GUIDES! No, I do have a video for you. A sample if you will. I tested out some software for streaming and I’m very happy with it. This may open up not only prospects of streaming but more tutorials or video content. I’ve made a desktop and mobile version of the same video below.

Desktop

Mobile

Here’s the full stream.

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Thank you so much for… watching!

Phenex finds Lust in the veil, challenging her to a final fight.

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