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Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar Launches Pandemic Relief Effort via Kickstarter

The readers of this website are continually kept “in the know” about things to do in our region care of our handy, dandy Events Calendar. It’s here that you find the concerts, special events and conventions of no less than 50 or so places in the metropolis that we regularly document with one of the main places being the Saint Vitus Bar, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Earlier today, the folks at SVB announced a special Kickstarter to help operations once this dreaded Coronavirus has left us. Take a look down below.

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The Press Release:
Saint Vitus Launches Pandemic Relief Effort via Kickstarter. Today, Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, NY is launching a Kickstarter to help raise money to keep the bar alive both during and after the pandemic.
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GWAR and Comic Creators Announce Comic Book Kickstarter

You readers already know how much I love the comic book medium here on PiercingMetal if you’ve ever glanced at our monthly solicitations posts along with the occasional title review piece. Over the last few years we’ve found KISS doing a few titles and even the likes of Dimmu Borgir and while they are a different sort of thing – The Rock and Roll Comics series is something that really needs to return. With that in mind, it was awesome to find a new Kickstarter campaign being done for a GWAR comic book series. I’ll let the provided press release give you all the insight and then I’ll close up the issue with some final thoughts.

The Press Release:
JUST LAUNCHED on Kickstarter – GWAR: ORGASMAGEDDON, a blasphemous and blood-drenched 4-issue full-color comic book series by shock rock legends GWAR, writer Matt Miner (Toe Tag Riot, Critical Hit), artist Jonathan Brandon Sawyer (Welcome Back, Critical Hit), colorist Marissa Louise (RoboCop, Escape from New York), letterer Taylor Esposito (Batman Eternal, Red Hood and the Outlaws) and editor Brendan Wright (Archie vs. Predator, Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight).

The Kickstarter can be found at GWARKICKSTARTER.COM and it ends in 31 Days.

Having already violated the art, music, and film worlds, now infamous scumdogs GWAR are coming for your comic books! Do you need to be a GWAR fan to love this series? Hell no! There’s loads of laughs, violence, fun, and irreverent social satire for everyone to enjoy!
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