Crowdsourcing Mornings: RISE #1-4: A Superhero Drama For A New Age

By Nathan Young on July 8, 2025

Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!

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RISE follows Jonathan A. Prufrock as he comes face to face with the perils of the male ego while attempting to be super. The first four issues of this premium print comic combine for a whopping 160 pages and explores the performative nature of masculinity through the elevated life of a superhero attempting to navigate the pressures of what it really means to be a good man. Further, we ask, what does it take for one person to feel themselves deserving of love?

This superheroic journey is penned by rising writer, Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz (AREA 51: THE HELIX PROJECT, MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT); drawn & colored by breakout artist, Ryan Best (BEAR MARKET BUSINESSMAN) with letters by the nicest man in comics, Matías Zanetti! This is Trevor & Pocket Watch Press’ ELEVENTH project on Kickstarter, having successfully funded & fulfilled all prior campaigns!

In an industry saturated with superheroes, what makes this one RISE above the rest?

This story is about the man underneath the cape. RISE sets out to confront one man’s relationship with his own masculinity, the burdens of guilt, questioning his responsibility to the world around him and the role that he plays within it.

Jon’s powers scale with the dopamine in his bloodstream, which means his ability to do the things only he can do are limited by his capacity to feel good–which aren’t always inherently good themselves.

As of July 8th, this project has raised $8,500 of their $8,000 goal. This project has 20 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $7, you will get one digital comic. For a pledge of $15, you will get one printed comic. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thehelix/rise4?

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