Love Dark Horse’s Aliens comics from the 90’s, Seven and Jurassic Park are on your favourite movie list - then ARKS is for you.
Catch up on the series with the full colour comic, containing stunning artwork, a brand new world building story inspired and based on real science, wrapped around a diamond hard sci-fi police procedural set in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve meets Alien!
Plus there's a behind the scenes look into the art and science of ARKS, with every issue in the Arks Appendix and our brand new spin off story Proximan - to take you deeper into the ARKS universe!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
F*****G POLTERGEISTS!
6 months ago
– Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 08:55:08 AM
Would you like to know how to jump into another person’s soul like a f*****g poltergeist?! If the answer is yes, then read Pattern State Insertion, the companion appendix to Arks Helices #1, launching on the 11th of November at 5 p.m. (GMT).
That’s right, this year we worship at the altar of capitalism, as the Arks appendix (as we have been calling it) will now be sold separately as its own 12-page comic.
NOW... before you are overwhelmed with righteous indignation at the thought of a small press making money, know this—anyone who has backed us in the past or has signed up for our newsletter will receive a link to a secret reward tier the day before the campaign launches, which will allow them to get Pattern State Insertion completely for free if they pledge for Arks Helices #1 in its opening 48 hours and...
Get Pattern State Insertion for free if you pledge
... Arks Helices #1 will still have 3 pages of “Behind the Pages” art and goodies AND...
Arks Psychomachia is available as a comic and a PDF
... for about six additional English pounds (£4 for digital), you can get another, even more demented companion appendix called: Arks: Psychomachia. This won’t explain how our distant descendants jump instantly between bodies that are light-years apart, but it will explain how awful it is when enormous A.S.I. farms hunt your soul using just compute.
On top of all this, we will have three new Polyptychs (panels 3, 9, and 13) by the great Andrew Morris, and sticker packs of characters and tech by Arks Helices artist Gustaffo Vargas!
Arks Polyptych Panel 9
Suffice to say, like any Kickstarter twerp, we want this campaign to be our biggest yet, so if you happen to be reading this update on the toilet- set this reminder on your phone now:
11.11.26 — ARKS HELICES #1 PLUS FREE COMIC BOOK IF I PLEDGE ON KS BEFORE MIDNIGHT NOV 14 GMT
This series is incredible and the campaign ends Tomorrow evening (15th October ) so BACK IT NOW!
Sagas of the Shield Maiden is a Viking western comic that recounts the legends of the titular Shield Maiden as she traverses Scandinavia and beyond the North Sea. As well as obviously being heavily influenced by Viking history and Norse mythology the stories all draw upon traits and themes commonly found in the western genre.
Originally beginning as short stories from various point of the Shield Maiden's life, the series now follows two concurrent timelines. One following a younger, brasher and more blood hungry raider as she grieves the loss of her great love. As the other follows an older, battle hardened mercenary selling her sword for silver.
All volumes of Sagas of the Shield Maiden each contain over 40 pages of comics as well as a plethora of back up material including an amazing pin up gallery from artists including Len Gogou, Fell Hound, Ahmed Raafat and Angela Wu.
More... MORE... MOOOORREEEE...
7 months ago
– Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 05:45:55 AM
....MORE... COVER ART!!! Behold the cover for Arks Trypto #1 by the quantum anomaly that is Andrew Morris!
Arks Trypto #1 Cover by Andrew Morris
This will be the sequel series to Arks releasing sometime in 2027. It will be about 8- 20 page issues that will feature pigs, trepanned human, A.I worms, cyclogyros, male prostitutes and the most tragic mulching ever committed to the pages of a comic book. Arks Trypto will be ghastly, revolutionary science fiction and despite it being terrifying, I literally can't wait to start making these books :)
We have a YOUTUBE and TIK-TOK channel!
I know- Yay. We are becoming another shameless intellectually property spammer and we are joining the Youtube and Tik-Tok hordes to push our content into your eyeballs 24/7. My plan is to produce a few videos a week until death or a living from making comic books. Whatever comes first ;3
We have already produced a dozen videos which I am really proud of, including this piece of clickbait.
Obligatory like and subscribe obviously. Or become mildly annoyed that I am asking you to click on stuff. Go on- click.
And whilst you are clicking- Arks Helices #1 is officially our next Kickstarter and will be launching sometime in November this year. We will have some tantalising snippets of art in coming updates, but until then feed the hype-beast and join the prelaunch by clicking here.
Oh go on- here is one snippet!
Arks Helices #1 Page 3 Rough pencil
NOW BACK THESE INCREDIBLE CAMPAIGNS!
Despite being sans-campaign ourselves we wanted to draw-your-eyes towards these incredible Kickstarter campaigns that are all live now! If you're fingers aren't tired from all the clicking- we highly recommend that you click some more because these books are brilliant!
From our friend, Emmy-winning game writer Joshua Rubin (Assassin’s Creed 2, Telltale’s Walking Dead, Destiny), comes Time Sensitive — a mind-bending new time travel comic book. Featuring jaw-dropping art by Jorge Coelho (Marvel, Image, BOOM!), what begins as a paranoid mystery spirals into a heart-wrenching, high-concept thriller about memory, identity, and time itself.
“Joshua Rubin’s Time Sensitive is a glorious and lovingly rendered mashup of all things Matrix, Looper, Dark, and more. Funny, moving, and freaky in all the right ways. The art by Jorge Coelho is jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Highly recommended.” — David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, Blade, Foundation)
Time Sensitive is LIVE on Kickstarter NOW, and ending 10/9!
Pale Horse: In the wake of his three siblings, the Pale Horse of Death stalks the Earth. Its sweeping gaze reveals what’s left of our world: Cities reduced to ash, hordes of animals attacking on sight, casualties beyond measure. In a matter of days, mankind has been eradicated from the face of our planet.
Except for Jude.
Alone and confused, he walks a narrow path, Armageddon on one side and the unknown on the other. Pushing him along are visions of his dead father, each one slowly helping unlock the reasons he was spared and what will be expected of him at the end. Can humanity be saved? What triggered this apocalypse, and is there any way to stop it? These answers, and so much more lie behind the locked door to the TOMB OF THE PALE HORSE
TOMB: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION: The pinnacle of our achievement as creators, TOMB: The Complete Collection is an oversized, 212-page hardcover containing all four issues of the series, expanded short fiction pieces, over 50 pages of backmatter, process pages, and pinups, as well as a foreword by comics giant Kieron Gillen.
Lavishly printed by Comics Printing UK, this volume is both luxurious and terrifying. Inside you’ll find pinups, script pages, discussions of our creative process, and four short fiction pieces that expand on each of these apocalyptic tales.
Click here to see Tomb of the Pale Horse campaign.
Macabre Valley #1 is a 30-page horror comic by writer Zack Quaintance (Death of Comics Bookcase), artist Anna Readman (2000AD, Peachfuzz), colorist Brad Simpson (Local Man, Coffin Bound), Eisner-nominated letterer Becca Carey (Absolute Wonder Woman, Exquisite Corpses), and designer Jared K. Fletcher (Paper Girls).
In this first issue, a young reporter gets a job covering the night cops beat at a newspaper in South Texas. When a Border Patrol agent is gruesomely murdered, our hero must untangle a violent mystery with a beloved local priest and a werewolf at its dark center.
Make sure you back this one to book your trip to the Valley this Halloween!
it’s a Dyson-class space station, a mega-structure so vast it can only exist in the orbit of a dead star. Within its colossal O’Neill cylinders, the last of humanity clings to survival, hiding from an unknowable enemy. An enemy that doesn’t hunt them physically, but hunts their very pattern in the quantum field. If it can find you, it can become you.
In Arks Helices #1, the thrilling first instalment of a three-part series, we follow Moxy—a 23,000-year-old immortal, time-traveling, bio-punk-noir detective—sent down from the Helices to investigate missing Arks in the colony below. But this time, the enemy has sent one of its own: an evil unlike anything she has ever faced before. An evil that doesn’t simply want to kill you… but to become you.
Arks Helices #1 is a bio-punk-noir detective story, blending eldritch horror with high-concept science-faction* storytelling. Prepare to enter a universe where humanity’s last sanctuary might also be its tomb.
*Based on real science
The prelaunch page for Arks Helices #1 is up. This will be our next Kickstarter, launching sometime around November this year. It’s written by me— Rory Collins—and is being lined and coloured by the incredible Gustaffo Vargas (Image, Marvel). As a tiny, piss-pant publisher, joining the prelaunch helps us immensely. It gets us hyped when we see more people following, and gives us the best possible chance of a good launch so go on do it…click here and hit notify me on launch;v)
Now I know you didn’t ask - but I personally bloody hate it when publishers and studios endlessly mint sequels, keeping characters in place so brands remain recognisable, making each subsequent book or film bigger and badder to stand in for actual development. You feel it when you read it—familiarity without momentum. Repetition disguised as escalation. All thoughtfully plotted stories start with an end in mind. Worlds should expand because the story demands it, not because the market wants more of it. So I have done something brilliant or mad. I am a legend or a bastard… you decide. I have plotted out the full Arks storyline and made this roadmap. You can see where Helices fits into the storyline. Some of you will be thinking, ‘Jesus, finish Issue 6 before you hit me with this!’ You are, of course, absolutely right. But the reason Issue 6 will be great is because I have been a dirty, greasy plotter and planned out the story in its entirety. BEHOLD!
I have been alive for 16,072 days, and there is an excellent chance it’ll take me approximately 32,000 days to complete all these books. It will be my life’s work. But I’m up for it*
The unstuckening!
8 months ago
– Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 04:41:24 AM
It happens to all of us at some point-- we get stuck in a chicken and egg dilemma.
To do this, I need to do that. But if I do that I won’t be able to do this.
Like any indie book we want to reach a bigger audience, but to reach a bigger audience we can’t make books. And you especially can’t make books when your god-tier artist Andrew is making hay in advertising and your incredible American artist Erich retires from making comic books.
Instead of knuckling down and facing the 'stuckening', I did what most word-nerds do when faced with reality, I started plotting out even more books. I watched in terror as what I thought would be 3 (volume size) books become 5. And realised that this story would take a life time to complete and would probably kill Andrew.
So imagine how I felt when a new god-tier artist slid into the DMs and said he’s available in August and wanted to work on an Arks story.
BUT… You have started art for both of your current storylines and have no other scripts.
DOUBLE PLUS BUT… You have just finished plotting future books. One of which features a 23,000 year old, immortal, time travelling, hard boiled, syn-bio super hero cop that breaks bones without breaking the laws of physics. And you have written a loose back story for this character!
… It’s unconventional, I know. ButBEHOLD-Arks: Helices.
Arks Helices #1 Cover mockup by me
It’s a story about a character yet to be introduced in our main storyline, that reveals how the Arks storyline will expand. Missing out all of the key plot steps to make this storyline connect with the existing storyline but crucially...
It will connect.
It’s mind blowing.
It’s the most demented thing I have ever written.
It’ll be the first story ever to feature ‘UNSPOILERS’. Story spoilers, that you won’t know are spoilers until you have read as yet, unmade stories, that will contain the foreshadowed moments un-spoiled by this storyline. It’s ingenious, If I do say it myself. Christopher Nolan would approve.
And crucially, 'unstuckening' myself and freeing me up to do the boring essential stuff.
Arks Helices is going to be a three part story told in 20’ish page episodes. I wrote the scripts in record time and it'll be line and coloured by the incredible Gustaffo Vargas(Image, Marvel) who has already started the art!
Gustaffo Vargas process page for Arks Helices #1
We will likely be running a kickstarter for this sometime in October / November. To be followed with Arks Issue Six and Arks Proximan #2 next year, which we have already started the art for. BEHOLD X2...
Arks Proximan #2 Page 9 by Andrew Morris
Arks Proximan #2 Page 10 by Andrew Morris
The prelaunch for Arks Helices#1 will be live in the coming weeks but until then (if you haven’t already) please join…
We will be launching Arks Issue Six one of two ways. We will launch early 2026 or within one week of the project reaching 800 followers on the prelaunch page. Kickstarter nerds will know that that is a very high number for a prelaunch page but we've got to the point where as an indie press, we're doing maths a lot. If you want it sooner tell your buds at the comic shop, bus stop, anywhere people congregate and get them to join the Arks Issue Six Prelaunch!
Likewise Arks Proximan #2 kickstarter will be launching sometime in 2026 or within one week of the project reaching 800 followers. Don't be nerds now and join each of the pre-launches and force us to make both of them this year. That would be a dick* move... *(lovely)
The biggest comic Con in the Kingdom cometh to the London Excel this weekend. Three days of chaos await. Think the end of Pinocchio when the orphans get turned into donkeys on Pleasure Island and your half way close to the insanity! Myself and Andrew will be in Artist Alley at tableB-04, Friday to Saturday! And our legendary producer Holly will be deputising with me on Sunday (because Saturday is her birthday). We'll be happy to sign, drink and blab all weekend. Get your tickets here!
