Tyler: We’ll have to see! I have been doing weekly live streams on my YouTube channel and recently did one where I sketched some possible designs for Mecha-Sabre Gemini mechs. I’m curious, if Mecha-Sabre Gemini ever makes an appearance in the comic, do you think you’d attempt to do the anime style or would you perhaps work with a manga artist for those moments? And if I don’t show these kinds of moments to the reader, I worry that their relationship will feel fake. They both have very specific information that the other person needs. And it was important to take some time to grow their relationship. There is nothing quite like going for a long drive in a small car with someone you barely know. Honestly, that’s one of my favorite scenes in the whole book. And the kind of story that Howard would wish he had access to as a kid. I wanted it to be one that would have the kinds of themes that Howard could identify with. It made me feel like an old man, haha.Īnd two: I had just finished watching Neon Genesis Evangelion which actually has a lot of themes that are similar to the themes in “The Lonesome Hunters.” So I kind of merged those two ideas by making up my own anime story for Lupe to be obsessed with. A lot of anime and webcomics and stuff like that. And when we hung out, they were always telling me about media that I had totally missed. One: When I first got into comics, I was a bit older than a lot of my colleagues who were also just starting out. And when I can hear my dialogue out loud it helps me to make it sound more natural. I’m not the fastest typist in the world, so I do a lot of dictating. But at the same time, I’m writing a full script, by dictating it to my computer or iPad. They are comically bad, often taking less than a minute to draw. I’ll have a blank page where I make very rough layouts. That part usually happens at the same time. The real writing begins when I start doing layouts and writing dialogue. I usually go through a few drafts of outlines like that before I feel like I’m ready to write. That way I can see how many pages I expect each scene to take up and I can plan my page turns and stuff. Then I transfer my outline to a “book map,” which is a sheet of paper with every page laid out in a grid. Like, I usually start outlining on paper, but I’ll switch to dictating stuff to my iPad when it feels faster, and I’m making scribbles in my sketchbook at the same time with ideas of what stuff might look like. It usually involves trying to do two or three things at once. So now that you’ve completed an entire arc of “The Lonesome Hunters” and you’re at work on a second, what’s your process like both writing and drawing? And they recognised that loneliness in each other. But that purpose is something we won’t find out until the end.Īs far as how they relate to one another, I think my only idea at the beginning was that they were both very lonely. But now I think it is going to end up serving a greater narrative purpose. Like, it just seemed like the thing to do. At first, it was just something that I did intuitively. Lupe has always been the narrator of the story. Is this a dynamic that developed very early on since she’s very much the voice of the series? Though they are very different in a lot of ways, she presents him as someone she can understand and relate to. Throughout the first arc we learnt about her through Howard. And I went down a lot of different paths that ended up being dead ends.Įven in this early version of the story Lupe exists as the narrator. Especially because the final result is so different from where it started. Honestly, it was such a long process with so many twists and turns that it’s hard to even remember sometimes how these ideas evolved. And the longer I thought about her and how the two of them could build a relationship, the more the story evolved into a character driven story where the monsters mostly existed to drive Howard and Lupe into a place of self discovery. But I quickly started to realize that I was putting too much focus on the character of Howard and not giving enough thought and agency to Lupe. So the idea was that each story arc would be called “The Old Man and the.” Y’know, whatever the monster was in that story arc. The kind of stuff that Gun Smoke or The A-Team did to great effect. I have a real love for that kind of serialized storytelling. I imagined a serialized story that essentially reset to the status quo. Tyler Crook: The origins of the idea was to have a series that was just about Howard and Lupe going out and having kind of “monster of the week” kinds of adventures. I believe you even started drawing a version of this story back in 2012. “The Lonesome Hunters” is a story you’ve had kicking around in your brain for at least ten years now.
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