Sean Gordon Murphy's Zorro: Man Of The Dead Graphic Novel

International shipping and how we are protecting these books
6 days ago – Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 02:50:10 PM

Hi all,

We wanted to give a quick update on a few more items we are seeing asked in the comments and messages often. 

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
We are nearing the end of our domestic fulfillment (I believe there are about 300 orders left to package up) and are setting our sights on starting the international fulfillment. These orders are a bit more complicated due to the country-specific requirements for shipping so we wanted to wait on charging those until we were just about to start getting them out. That being said, please verify your shipping info on your Backerkit order page to ensure we have accurate details to provide our shipping carrier. We will be charging cards through BackerKit so please verify that your card on file is also up to date. 

PACKAGING FOR KS BOOKS
A previous post gave the impression that we were just placing books into FedEx mailers and shipping out without additional protection. That is not the case. Orders that don't contain larger items like the Master Class and Artist Edition are bagged/boarded, bubble wrapped, packaged inside of a Gemini Comic Mailer and then put into the FedEx bubble mailer. We have received very positive feedback on the security of this method. Any larger items like the Master Class and Artist Editions are being packaged in larger FedEx flatrate boxes not bubble mailers. 

Thank you,
Massive Publishing 
 

Ship! Ship! Ship!
10 days ago – Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 05:54:49 PM

Hello Zorros

As we continue to ship out rewards for the Zorro Campaign we have had a few FAQs popping up regarding tracking. Our shipping is being handled by Fed Ex primarily and we are getting daily pick ups and regular deliveries of shipping supplies to keep the process flowing. Once we print the shipping labels and the books are picked up you should be getting an email from Backerkit with your tracking information. You should also be able to find it by going into your Backerkit account directly. 

We are about 50% complete so if you haven't received a notification yet, don't worry, your package will ship out soon. We still have a chunk of backers that have not updated their payment info with Backerkit for us to be able to charge the shipping costs, those orders will be packaged and ready to go out the door once that has been updated/processed. 

We also appreciate all the positive feedback from the backers who have received their rewards. We are doing everything we can to make sure these books are worth the wait and arrive in the best condition possible. 

Thank you
Massive Publishing Team 

Master Class books in hand and Digital rewards in your inbox
29 days ago – Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 06:24:30 PM

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Zorro MOTD Artist Editions have arrived!
about 2 months ago – Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 12:51:19 PM

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Shipping update and a first look at the freshly printed Kickstarter Exclusive Hardcover
2 months ago – Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 12:18:43 PM

Hi Zorros, 

For all of our domestic backers, as you probably saw, Backerkit sent out an email notifying that the credit cards on file would be charged for the shipping of your rewards. We spent a lot of time figuring out what would be the absolute cheapest way to get you your rewards while also ensuring we protected the books at the highest standard. That means, bagging and boarding single issues, bubble wrapping sets of books and using Gemini mailers inside of sealed bubble mailers. We’ve also opted for flat rate shipping tiers through FedEx as it allowed us to keep pricing more consistent across the board and gave a small discount. We’ve already packaged many of the orders and are going to be shipping those out as payments are processed. 

Also, we wanted to address the delivery dates for the different types of books. We received the Hardcovers and they look gorgeous (check out the fresh copies below). We pushed back the retail release for the softcover (originally scheduled for July) so that your KS rewards would be shipping around the same time as the retail release. We would have loved to get the books to backers first but the hardcover printing does take longer to produce and processing thousands of orders is obviously a big undertaking. 

The Artist Edition books are set to arrive in about a week from China, at which point we will immediately begin fulfilling those orders. Sadly the production of the casebound Master Class Editions hit delays when our Canadian printer pushed back production dates unexpectedly and we had to pivot to using the Chinese printer that produced the Artist Editions. We’ve paid express air shipping rates to reduce the delay as much as possible, and the ETA on those books have moved from early next month to late next month.

International backers, admittedly we are in a bit of a holding period as we wait for EasyShip to provide us with updated pricing for international shipping/fees. Once they've provided that we can begin processing those orders. We've been told by EasyShip that we should have that within the next few days. 

Once again, we will be sending out new direct downloads for the full collected PDF to all backers who contributed to a reward tier. Those will be sent directly (not through omnibus) so keep an eye out for that. We will not be providing any further support for Omnibus questions as this new edition will replace those downloads. 

-MASSIVE Publishing