It was an eclectic week of comics news and details, which means it’s one that I really enjoyed. So, let’s get straight into it, as I write about ten things I liked or didn’t like from the week of comics in Comics Disassembled, with it all being led by Bone getting maybe its best editions yet.

1. Bone, Going Deluxe

If you asked me for a random and quiet delight from the past few years in comics, one of my top picks might be seeing Jeff Smith and his long-running self-publishing outfit Cartoon Books realizing that what they do — or, more specifically, what they’ve done — and crowdfunding is a pretty hand in glove fit. You couldn’t ask for a more perfect tactic than crowdfunding for someone who has a lot of material and an expansive fanbase, and those are things Smith has. He’s demonstrated that three times already with the two Tuki collections he’s run through Kickstarter and the one for Thorn, the college comic strips he did that preceded Bone, his beloved magnum opus. Each looked at their respective goals and laughed, putting in funding numbers that were measured in the thousands rather than the simple and typical 0 to 100% scale Kickstarters focus on.

And the most recently announced Cartoon Books Kickstarter is going to put them all to shame.

It’s for Bone Deluxe Edition Part One: The Valley, which is “an oversized compilation that reprints the first two BONE graphic novels and is filled with bonus extras like photos, early scripts, drawings, articles, and reviews, revealing the story behind the making of BONE and Cartoon Books,” as the preview page for the campaign states. Not only that, but these “deluxe collections will be oversized 12.5″ x 8.75″ hardcover and trade paperbacks each housed in a slipcase. The interiors will be black and white as they were originally published in both the comics and graphic novels, BUT larger than they have ever been printed before!” Got all that? Well, one more thing: there will be four of these editions ultimately, and they will collect the entire series. That’s pretty, pretty cool.

For some titles, this might seem like overkill. Bone has already sold millions and millions of copies across a variety of formats. But if you know any Bone fans, you know they probably have multiple versions of the series already. For example, I have most of the series in single issue form, individual trades both in black-and-white and color, and a well-loved one volume edition (black-and-white). Will I be backing the deluxe edition campaign? You better believe it. Plenty of others will as well, as this version could quickly become the Criterion Collection-like version of this classic series, the one all others are measured up against.

So, yeah, get ready for some heat coming from this campaign. It’s going to put up video game numbers when it launches. If you want to be amongst the first to know, make sure to go to its preview page and press that “Notify Me on Launch” button.

2. Ink Pop, Uhh…Popping

The publisher expansion continues, as the greater Penguin Random House empire — but more specifically its children’s publisher, Random House Graphic — has announced a new line called Ink Pop. It’s the twinsie to the already existing imprint Inklore, except this house that will emphasize manga, manhwa, and webtoons is focused on the younger audiences while Inklore is aimed at adults. Consider it what you’d find at the center of the Venn diagram of Random House Graphic and Inklore, which likely means it’s going to do very, very well in the market. Translated manga and manhwa is hot right now, as are print versions of webtoons. This shop emphasizing those for a younger audience is a great idea.

Even better, it’s being led by Whitney Leopard, someone who has been in comics for quite some time at BOOM! and then Random House Graphic. Leopard’s got a gift for this sort of thing, and if something like Ink Pop is going to deliver on its promise, it needed someone like Leopard. And it sounds promising already, as the first two releases are quite appealing. That’s particularly true of the bonkers sounding My Life as an Internet Novel from Han Ryeo Yu and A Hyeon, which finds a teen girl transported into her favorite high school romance novels. Hijinks presumably ensue.

I’m down with all that, and Ink Pop is officially one to watch when it debuts in full next July. This should be a good one.