Shane Davis’ Starlight Cats: Merlion Rising Collected Edition

NOW WITH A BONUS 16 PAGES for a total of 64 STORY PAGES!

Starlight Cats is an intergalactic action-adventure graphic novel that chronicles the exploits of a little girl named Rebecca and the street cat Barnaby. The vicious rat-like aliens known as the Verkins are bent on conquering Earth, and only Rebecca and an elite team of cosmic-powered cats known as the Starlight Cats stand between them and universal infestation.

Starlight Cats is a project that Shane Davis and Yanzi Lin have been planning to work on since 2017. Shane brings to this project over 20 years of experience as a professional comic book penciller and writer on projects such as DC Comic's Superman: Earth One, Batman, New Gods and more. He also co-created almost every member of DC Comic's Red Lanterns, including the world famous fan-favorite cat, Dex-Starr the Red Lantern.

Starlight Cats: Merlion Rising Collected Edition

This special edition of Starlight Cats includes the out-of-print 16-page story sold in the original 2020 Indiegogo campaign. Previously included in the Starlight Cats supplemental book, this story tells how one of the Starlight jewels ended up on Earth and Barnaby’s quest to retrieve it. 

With a combined total of 64 story pages, this is the complete Starlight Cats: Merlion Rising experience available for the first time through Back Me Bro.

The book is already completed and ready to be printed. To give all backers a chance to get this book, 9 Lives Comics will be running this campaign for an extended period leading into 2027 before we begin fulfillment.

Back Me Bro 1st Project Celebration Challenge Coin

To commemorate the launch of the first campaign ever on Back Me Bro, not only do backers of this campaign get a digital commemorative badge on their user profile, we are also offering the badge in the form of a physical challenge coin.

This 2-inch challenge coin will have designs on both the front and the back.

We reserve the right to limit the quantity of these challenge coins at any time, including removing it from the campaign after a certain quantity has been sold.

9 Lives Comics Catch-Up Pack

If you are new to the world of indie comics and looking for the best of what 9 Lives Comics has to offer, be sure to pick up this catch-up pack. 

Titles included in this pack:

• Starlight Cats: Merlion Rising collected edition

• Inglorious Rex collected edition vol 1 (included the original Inglorious Rex graphic novels vol 1 and 2)

• Inglorious Rex vol 3

• Annatomic: Welcome to the Arena

• Axcend: Level Up

All books with the exception of the Starlight Cats reprint edition have already been printed, so there will not be a delay in shipping once fulfillment begins.

9 Lives Comics T-Shirt

Show your support for the creative force behind Starlight Cats, Inglorious Rex, Axcend and Annatomic by getting one of these T-shirts with the 9 Lives Comics logo on it.

The 9 Lives Comics logo will be printed in red on a heavy, pre-shrunk 100% cotton T-shirt and is available from size S to 4XL.

Shirts will be shipped separately from books.

Inglorious Rex 16oz Pint Glass

Let out the beast with this awesome 16oz pint glass featuring 232 roaring on it! This is the 3rd pint glass ever produced by 9 Lives Comics and backers have always had nothing but the best to say about the quality of our glasses.

This pint glass is handwash only. Due to the possibility of breakage, we can only ship this item within the USA.

CGC Signature Series Starlight Cats Reprint Edition

If you want an edition signed by both Shane Davis and Yanzi Lin that is certified by CGC, be sure to pick this up today!

By purchasing the CGC edition in this book, you are guaranteed at least a grade of 9.8. Higher grades are possible but not guaranteed and are subject to randomized allocation.

Inglorious Rex Collected Edition Vol 1

This edition of Inglorious Rex collects the first two volumes of the smash hit series from 9 Lives Comics. 124 pages of full color content, including 106 story pages. This book is already printed and on-hand to ship.

Rex Racer 232

Rex champion 232 debuts as a metal diecast, pull-back race car. This car comes on a full color card stock and is on-hand to ship.

Choose either the signed or unsigned edition.

Starlight Cats Exclusive Merlion Cover

Originally offered in the 2020 campaign, this exclusive Merlion cover has never been sold on its own since. Now is your chance to grab this out-of-print exclusive cover from this campaign!

All campaign images are not final and subject to changes.