Packrat & Thunderbunny: Issue 1

First issue of a humorous, action-packed superhero buddy comic book 35+ years in the making.

This comic book is quite literally over 35 years in the making. The characters in this comic were created by real life best friends, Derek Jason Bush and John Fletcher Pasquini, way back in 1987 when Derek was a freshman in high school and John was a senior. It took this long for the characters to be fully realized and now, with your help, these amazing characters can finally see the light of day in a fully colored 36-page printed comic book.

Standard Cover A by Nate Lovett

This first issue of a planned five-issue series introduces the reader to two new superheroes who are best friends that fight crime together.  At least…according to ONE of them. The story begins with Packrat, a relative newcomer to the superhero community, enjoying the act of defending the city against crime and battling a group of masked thugs. Then Thunderbunny arrives on the scene forever changing Packrat’s established world order. Despite Thunderbunny’s insistence that they are in fact “best buddies” who even fought together on the Moon, Packrat has no idea who this strange man in a pink bunny suit is, and he’s positive he’s NEVER been to the Moon!

Packrat enjoying taking down members of The Numbers Gang. No real cupcakes were harmed in the making of this page.
Thunderbunny arrives on the scene! Well…maybe a couple of cupcakes were harmed.
Introductions are made, confusion starts, plus the display of some really cool powers.
More confusion, more powers on display. Who is this strange bunny-shaped man and what does he want with Packrat?

The story continues with some discussion of the Moon Battle from Thunderbunny’s perspective, then the true threat of issue #1 is introduced, a villainous group of human-animal hybrids called The Menagerie! Created by a man only known as the Zookeeper, these former animal caretakers are made to rob banks for this mysterious supervillain. Will this awkwardly thrown-together crime fighting duo be able to take down this newest threat to the city? Will Packrat accept Thunderbunny as a friend? Will Thunderbunny understand what’s going on and why his best friend acts like he’s never seen him before? Will these questions even be answered in this first issue? Be one of the first to pledge on this super awesome Kickstarter campaign to find out!

Thunderbunny’s point of view of the Moon Battle. It’s Chibi!!! Wait…why does Packrat look like that? Is that a Dragon Packrat? Now I’m really confused.
The Menagerie in all their human-animal hybrid glory!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/prtb1/issue-1

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