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Published Oct 13, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
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The 1980s were a time for adventure on-screen. In theaters, the Indiana Jones movies and The Goonies captured that pulpy sense of derring-do in very different treasure hunts, whether to find the legendary Ark of the Covenant or One-Eyed Willy's lost fortune. On the small screen, meanwhile, the show for viewers of all ages to watch for similarly exciting exploits was Disney's DuckTales. Premiering in 1987 with an earworm of a theme song, the series followed Scrooge McDuck, alongside his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie and other friends, on expeditions to thwart the dastardly plans of villains and acquire legendary loot. A new comic is now looking to embrace a similar brand of adventure, albeit with a bit of the spooky appeal of the Hellboy comics.
Goats Flying Press is working on a Kickstarter campaign for a new anthology graphic novel titled Sir Reginald and the Clockwork Heart that follows a new intrepid explorer and gentleman "from scorching deserts to fathomless oceans, from sacred temples to ancient graveyards." Unlike Scrooge or Indy, Sir Reginald is a skeleton, and an eccentric one at that, joined by his ever-loyal ghost butler, Mr. Spittle, on globe-trotting expeditions to fill out his collection with all manner of mysterious artifacts. However, not even Spittle knows the true nature of the bony adventurer. Readers will get to follow along with each trip and learn more about the skeleton's goal and the project he keeps secret from everyone in his workshop as he gets closer to whatever he's seeking. Spanning 96 full-color pages in a hardcover package, the book will be split across five separate extraordinary outings, and Collider can exclusively share a look at one of the most Indiana Jones-esque.
Our sneak peek consists of five panels from "The Lost Temple," penned by the graphic novel's creator, Joe Atalla, with art by Eisner and Ignatz Award winner Jesse Lonergan, who, fittingly, worked with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola on the miniseries Miss Truesdale and the Rise of Man set within the supernatural investigator's universe. As such, the style feels very Hellboy-like, though not quite as dark. The story brings Sir Reginald back to an ancient temple he visited many moons ago to finally right a grievous wrong he committed. As he cuts through the greenery, however, animals are there to thwart the mustachioed skeleton at every turn. In one instant, he must rely on his reflexes to avoid becoming a leopard's new chew toy, while, in another, he has to flee a group of monkeys after punting one that tried to steal his bag. Like any good ancient temple, there are also deadly traps aplenty for Reginald to navigate along the way.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Fantasy World Do You Belong To? Middle-earth · Grand Line · The Continent · Camp Half-Blood
Pick your magic, your crew, where you want to wake up and who you would rather be fighting, and we will tell you which world you actually belong in. Four are open to you: an ancient kingdom living through its last good age, an endless sea full of pirates, a continent that pays people to kill monsters, and a summer camp where the Greek gods are extremely real and mostly a nuisance.
💍Middle-earth(Rings of Power)
👒Grand Line(One Piece)
🐺The Continent(The Witcher)
🔱Camp Half-Blood(Percy Jackson)
FIND YOUR WORLD →
01
What kind of power do you want? Every one of these worlds runs on a completely different sort of magic.
ASomething ancient and half forgotten that came down through my family. BSomething completely ridiculous that works in a fight and gets a laugh. CNo magic at all, just training, potions and a very sharp sword. DSomething I inherited from a parent I have barely met.
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02
Who is travelling with you? Nobody gets through any of these stories entirely on their own.
AA fellowship drawn from every corner of the world who barely trust each other. BA crew I picked up one at a time, all of whom would die for me. CTwo or three people I would never describe out loud as friends. DTwo mates from school who are exactly as out of their depth as I am.
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03
Where do you want to wake up tomorrow? The best fantasy is usually just somewhere you would genuinely like to live.
AA high city of white stone with the sea somewhere far below. BA ship under sail, with an island ahead that nobody has mapped. CA rented room over a tavern, in a town I am leaving in the morning. DA cabin at a summer camp with everybody else already awake outside.
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04
How are you making a living out there? Even in fantasy somebody has to pay for the horse.
AI am not, because somebody far older than me decided this was my duty. BTreasure, and I am not always careful about whose it used to be. CI take contracts, since people will pay well for what they will not touch. DI am fifteen and this is all technically a school trip.
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05
There is something in the woods. What do you do about it? All four of these worlds keep something unpleasant out there in the dark.
ASend word to somebody who has seen this before, then hold the line. BWalk straight in, because it is interesting and possibly edible. CAsk what it has been eating and what the village is willing to pay. DWork out which myth it escaped from, then improvise very badly.
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06
Who is the villain of your story? The enemy tells you far more about a world than the hero ever does.
AAn ancient evil that has been patient for several thousand years. BA government that has spent a long time calling itself the good guys. CA man who turns out to be far worse than anything I hunt for money. DA god, or possibly my own family, and quite likely both at once.
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07
What do you actually believe in out there? Every world hands its heroes one rule and asks them to hold onto it.
ASome things are worth defending even when the odds are hopeless. BNobody gets to tell me where I can go or what I am allowed to want. CPick the lesser evil, and never pretend afterwards that it was not evil. DMy friends come before anything a prophecy has to say about it.
NEXT QUESTION →
08
A thousand years from now, how are you remembered? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your world.
AIn a song, in a language hardly anybody still speaks. BAs the one who got there first and proved the whole thing was possible. CBarely, and mostly wrongly, in ballads I would absolutely hate. DOn a plaque at a camp, read by kids about to do the same thing.
REVEAL MY WORLD →
The Map Is Drawn Your World Is…
Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in return.
Middle-earth
You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.
- This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat, fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
- You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
- The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
- You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.
The Grand Line
You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is finding out what is over there.
- One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
- You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
- The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
- You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of it.
The Continent
You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the people are where it all gets complicated.
- Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
- You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
- The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
- You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story got told wrong.
Camp Half-Blood
You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as everybody kept telling you.
- Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners, which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
- You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for something nobody thought to test for.
- The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
- Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.
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'Sir Reginald' Unites an All-Star Team of Comic Creators for Adventure
All five stories within the Sir Reginald anthology are penned by the cartoonist Atalla in his writing debut. Beyond Lonergan, he managed to land an entire team of superstar comic artists to bring his pulpy vision to life. Another Eisner nominee, Juni Ba (The Fables Of Erlking Wood), tackles "The Curse of Osiris," while superstar illustrator Dimitrios Pantazis (Hello Halloween) handles "Wyrm of Destruction," and breakout indie creator Armand Bodnar (Frog Knight) illustrates the climactic story, "The Clockwork Heart." Atalla himself provided the artwork for the second story, "In the Deep Below."
Lonergan found a lot of joy and nostalgia in getting to enter the world of the tea-sipping, tomb-raiding Sir Reginald and getting to help build a story like those he dug into growing up. "Sir Reginald & the Clockwork Heart was one of those fun projects that delicately balances adventure and whimsy and calls back to all the pulp adventure stories that were a constant background of my childhood," they wrote in an official statement. "I was excited to be a part of it and explore the jungle-covered ancient ruins with Joe Atalla." For Atalla, the project has been everything he imagined and more, both because of the people he got to work with and the genre-blending stories with heart he got to tell through his daring little skeleton.
“Sir Reginald and the Clockwork Heart has everything I think a comic should today—memorable characters, action, adventure, romance, humor, and a dash of mystery. Beneath this lies a fiercely beating heart that will make you question yourself by the end of the story. I'm so proud of what my collaborators and I have created. These stories have something for everyone.”
Sign up on the official Kickstarter page for Sir Reginald and the Clockwork Heart for more updates on when the campaign launches. Check out our exclusive panels above.
Release Date 1987 - 1990-00-00
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