GRIM REEFER is a four-issue, mature-readers, horror/comedy series launching on Kickstarter in the same vein as classic 80’s slasher films and with a dash of the “Just Say No!” panic that was prevalent at the time as well (despite being set in modern-day North Dakota). The Kickstarter is looking to fund the production of the first issue and hopefully build an audience for (or fund via stretch goals) the remaining three issues.

The series focuses on Marty, a down on his luck Native American 20-something, who is coerced by his scumbag second cousin Grant (who is overly proud of his 1/8th Lakota heritage) to be his wheelman for a “simple robbery.” When things get violently out of hand and people start dying, Marty makes his escape. Left on his own, Grant has a bloody stand-off with the cops in an abandoned barn that ends with him being killed in a hail of gunfire. In the aftermath, an opportunistic associate of a drug dealer realizes this could be a good place to expand his weed growing operation. What he doesn’t realize is that Grant’s spirit is tied to the ground he died on and the marijuana grown there is infused with his spirit. When anyone smokes this “haunted hashish” they become possessed by Grant, who uses their body to try to exact murderous revenge on Marty and the cops that killed him, including the local Sherriff Stan Munroe and his chief deputy (and a constant thorn in Marty’s side), Larissa Montez.

“This is an idea that’s been knocking around in my head for years,”

says writer and letterer Thacher Cleveland. “While marijuana legalization is becoming more common, there are still plenty of places and situations where using or possessing it can be considered a crime. What we’re doing with this series is amping up the ridiculousness a bit by making a generally harmless drug into the kind of thing that incites violence and mayhem that it’s been portrayed as in pulp novels and cult movies like ‘Reefer Madness.'” Art on the series is by Claudio Munoz, with color art by Kote Carvajal.

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