Hello from COPPER 9!

As we’re wrapping up 2025, we thought this would be the perfect time to give you a look at some amazing art headed your way. We’ve been prowling through any spooky house we could find, looking in closets with hidden messages, and anything else that would scare us to our battery-powered core. Why wouldn’t we do that during Halloween? BECAUSE WE HAVE YOUR EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT SOME SWEET MURDER DRONES HORROR HOMAGE COVERS TO SHOW YOU HERE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME…

Aren’t these covers both terrifying and electrifying? These covers will be arriving to any backers that pledged for the Horror Homage Variant sets featuring art paying tribute to the movies Carrie (art by Kate Sherron with Arancia Studios), The Thing (art by Jarrett Williams, colors by Michael Aityeh), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (art by Arancia Studios), The Shining (art by Krooked Glasses), and Friday the 13th (art by Moss Lawton). There’s also more coming … which we’ll reveal SOON!

Hey! Tier 11 and Tier 12 supporters!!!!!!!!!

White we’re talking about covers, our Worker Drones are back at it, and we have an update for those who have a customized variant cover attached to Tier 11 and Tier 12–the one where Uzi says, “BITE ME [YOUR NAME HERE]!”! If you’re one of the fine supporters who lucked out on this high-level reward, we will be reaching out to you by January 5th via email to ask you what name you want on the cover! After that email gets sent to you, you will have two weeks to respond to it. YOU MUST RESPOND TO THE UPCOMING EMAIL IF THE CUSTOM COVER REWARD APPLIES TO YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PLEASE!

Backerkit surveys will be sent out in the New Year, after Late Pledges close, so you can expect those surveys to arrive by the end of January. We will put out another update closer to when the surveys get sent out, so you won’t miss out on the latest news!

Additionally, we’ve received a few questions in regards to fulfillment and shipping for rewards for this campaign. As stated on the campaign page and on every tier, we estimate that fulfillment will begin in November 2026. The comic and the rewards are in production, and the release of the Kickstarter-exclusive items is timed with the release of the MURDER DRONES: THE OFFICIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL in-store release, which is also estimated as November 2026.

As we move forward with the campaign, we’ll be posting more updates regarding looks at interiors of the upcoming book and a whole lot more, so stay tuned!

If you have any questions, please email us at kickstarter@onipress.com, and we’ll get back to you. Our customer service hours are Monday-Friday from 9AM-5PM ET. During the holiday break, we will be a bit slower to answering emails.However we are answering them as quickly as possible, so please be patient, and we will get back to you.

We’ll have more things to show off soon! See you in 2026!

‘Til next time, 

Team Oni