
Drop Alert! Ultra Comix’s Beasts & Butchers: Book 1, Episode 2 Packs
Cleaver is back for the second instalment of one of the most beloved and innovative comic books in the entire blockchain space!
AUGUST 12, 2022. DROP ALERT! WRITTEN BY SASKIA WARTNABY.
Have you been eagerly awaiting the second entry in Ultra Comix action-filled, grungy comic book Village of the Damned? So have we!
The wait is finally over, as today, the Book 1: Episode 2 Butcher Packs are hitting the WAX blockchain.
What Is Ultra Comix?
Ultra Comix is an NFT comic book collection created by digital collectibles company Ultra Rare, hosted on the WAX blockchain.
Their Beast and Butchers series is illustrated by renowned artist and creator of Marvel’s War Machine, Kev Hopgood, and follows the story of a group of friends who are forced to navigate a plague-ridden, beast-infested world.
The team’s aims to blend the comic book and blockchain worlds, promising to deliver high-quality, exciting art for NFT collectors and comic book fans alike – and they have a unique way of bringing the best of both worlds together.
What’s Unique About These Comic Books?
If you’d like to read an Ultra Comix’s comic book, all you need to do is head to their website and click on the one you’d like to open. It’s totally free – but you won’t get the best experience.
The real fun starts when you collect and integrate their NFTs.
When a new entry into the series is released, a companion comic book panel pack is dropped alongside it. These packs contain a random assortment of the panels within that comic as NFTs in various different rarities.
By logging in to the Ultra Comix website with your WAX wallet, you can add your panel NFTs to your digital comic, enhancing your personal copy with animations, art variations and more!
How Do I Purchase A Pack?
The Book 1: Episode 2 packs drop today (August 12, 2022) at 18:00 UTC.
1,900 packs are available, at a cost of $20 USD in WAX each. Each pack contains 20 random panel NFTs.
There are 48 panels to collect in total in 8 different rarities: Colour, Motion, Ink, Cosmic, Stormy Skies, Steel Mill, Blood and Ultra Rare Paperburn, as well as four types of 1-of-1s. You can discover all of the available NFTs via their AtomicHub collection.
This will be the first entry to the series with a linked physical redeemable. A limited edition physical comic, autographed by Kev Hopgood, is up for grabs if you can collect all three pieces of the comic cover.
Completing the entire comic book in a single rarity variant will reward you with the associated variant cover, giving each NFT in the pack real collectible value.
Ultra Rare continue to be real innovators in their quest to blend the collectible and comic worlds, so head on over to the drop page… before it’s too late!
If you want to keep up-to-date with Cleaver’s story, be sure to check out the Ultra Comix website and Ultra Rare Twitter.
Saskia Wartnaby
Creator of the Cat Stickers NFT collection. Artist, digital marketer, writer & animal lover. Fan of all things cute and wholesome, especially cats.
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