Howdy! We're Team Beats, a dynamic comic-creating duo made up of award-winning writer Dave Cook (Killtopia) and artist Steve Gregson (Bastard Galaxia). Together with various colourists and letterers, we're making fun comic books that tap into retro and nostalgic geek culture.

Our first weekly Patreon comic is BPM: Beatdowns Per Minute, a tribute to our favourite retro beat 'em ups like Streets of Rage, Final Fight and Double Dragon, as well as our favourite action movies, like Commando, The Raid, Jackie Chan's Police Story and many more.

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Set during the height of the techno-dance club scene of 1993, BPM follows martial arts cops, Maya Wickburn and Rick Diavola as they battle a ruthless crime syndicate to stop a dangerous and weird new drug from flooding Stone City. Their fight takes place across one night of mayhem and sees them fighting biker gangs, ninja clans and even... ninja-wrestlers?!

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The comic is a true love letter to the beat 'em up genre, with a ton of references that fans will love. The fight scenes were also inspired by practical effect action movies like John Wick and The Raid, with coherent panels and flows to keep the action feeling smooth and hard-hitting.

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BPM also features colours by legendary colourist, Matt Herms (Marvel, Sonic the Hedgehog, Power Rangers) that capture the neon vibes of the early '90s and impactful lettering by Rob Jones.

With your help, we can fund BPM all the way to completion and in return you'll get a new page each week, plus huge discounts on our collected physical books, making of time-lapse videos, articles about retro gaming and action movies, behind the-scenes content and much more.

No matter what tier you back at, you'll also get pages of new Team Beats weekly comics we create in future - so once the BPM series ends you'll automatically start getting pages of the next comic series we work on.

So if you love videogames, old-school action movies, retro culture and fun throwback tributes, then you're in the right place. Your pledges will help us keep doing what we love and give you even more great stories and rewards.

Thanks for your time!

-Dave & Steve (Team Beats)