Big news out of Top Cow Productions and Rocketship Entertainment today! The two prolific publishers of beloved comic titles such as Witchblade and The Darkness and Let’s Play and Assassin Roommate, respectively, and so many more are partnering to bring more of Top Cow’s books and some new exclusives to their fans. New exclusives. New slabs. New collections. This partnership will be aimed at a variety of fans with a variety of options to access those products.

Below are all the details from Rocketship!

 

 

Per Rocketship’s press release:

Rocketship Entertainment and Top Cow Productions have announced that they will be partnering to bring all new unique products and collected editions to fans through Kickstarter and the Top Cow Store. 

Rocketship is powering Top Cow’s new ecommerce store which continues to give fans new experiences with the titles they love. New exclusives, slabs, and collections will be releasing every month. Recent drops include The Darkness vs. Angelus “I Hate Fairyland” Team-Up variants, The Darkness / Invincible Team Up variants, slabbed 9.8 Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo signed copies, and the Top Cow Holiday Special: All Through the House foil variant.

The partnership runs on Rocketship’s proprietary publishing infrastructure, built to handle the full lifecycle of a modern comics launch. Rocketship’s in-house technology stack manages crowdfunding integration, BackerKit pledge management, Shopify storefronts, inventory and fulfillment logistics, and a unified customer data platform across every channel. It’s an end-to-end system purpose-built for direct-to-fan publishing at scale, giving Top Cow a turnkey path to launch campaigns, drop exclusives, and ship product seamlessly.

 

 

In the last year, Top Cow and Rocketship have launched massively successful Kickstarter campaigns for titles like Sunstone, Crimson, and Cyber Force, with an upcoming campaign for The Darkness Complete Collection Volume 4 launching in May, followed by campaigns for Freshmen, Witchblade, and Stjepan Sejic’s Letters to the Vampire Queen.  The campaigns include access to slab cards, mini-prints, variants, challenge coins, signed bookplates and other exclusive merchandise that’s never been available before. 

“We’re thrilled to be working with the team at Top Cow,” says Rocketship Publisher and CEO Tom Akel. “It’s an honor to work on such seminal titles, and we’re beyond excited to elevate the fan experience with them.”  

“Top Cow has always been about connecting with fans and pushing how comics are experienced,” said Marc Silvestri, founder of Top Cow Productions. “Partnering with Rocketship gives us the infrastructure to take that further than ever—delivering premium editions, exclusive content, and new ways for readers to engage with the worlds we’ve built.”  

About Top Cow Productions

Top Cow Productions, Inc., a Los Angeles-based entertainment company, was founded in December of 1992 by artist Marc Silvestri, who also co-founded Image Comics earlier that same year. Top Cow currently publishes its line of comic books in 21 languages in over 55 different countries. The company has launched 20 franchises (18 original and two licensed) in the industry’s Top 10, seven at #1, a feat accomplished by no other publisher in the last two decades. 

For more information, visit topcow.com or follow Top Cow on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Bluesky.

About Rocketship Entertainment

Rocketship Entertainment, LLC, founded in 2019 by Tom Akel and Rob Feldman, is a publishing, consumer product, and entertainment company with multiple Eisner-nominated and Ringo award-winning series including Let’s Play, Felix the Cat, Angry Birds, Lars the Awkward Yeti, Pacific Rim, The Beginning After the End, and Stan Lee’s Backchannel. Rocketship’s partnerships include Legendary Entertainment, Simon & Schuster, Dreamworks, The Gotham Group, Rovio, 451 Media, 11bit studios, Tapas Media, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., JABberwocky Literary Agency, Top Cow, and Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment. Rocketship connects fans directly to the series they want, working hand-in-glove with creators to create definitive, premium editions of their work and a full array of consumer products. For more information visit rocketshipent.com or follow on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.