Tyler Crook

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Opening cold open / commercial condensed: The usual Splash Pages zombie cold open and Deadly Grounds sponsor segment run before the actual interview starts.

Show Open and Welcoming Tyler Crook Back

Leo Pond [00:03:49]: Hey, hey. Happy Tuesday, everybody. You are watching Splash Pages. And you know what? We love comics so much that we gave you our own mascot. I’m now Alfred E. Newman. You know, Drew came over, he knocked out my tooth. And yeah, there we go.

Leo Pond [00:04:02]: So, yeah, without further ado, we’re gonna bring it over to Carrie.

Drew Mollo [00:04:05]: How’s it going?

Kari Sanders [00:04:06]: Hey, it’s going great. Happy Tuesday, everybody. But skip over me for right now because I’m going to be introducing our guest tonight. So let’s see how everybody else is doing. Yeah, I’m special tonight.

Drew Mollo [00:04:18]: Yeah, you are.

Leo Pond [00:04:18]: Okay.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:04:20]: Hey, everybody. Wow, I seem short.

Drew Mollo [00:04:23]: Hey everybody. Tuesday.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:04:26]: And you’re on Splash Pages. I’ve never gotten to do a bumper. We, I think we should each do our own bumper. I, I, I.

Drew Mollo [00:04:35]: But no spirit fingers.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:04:37]: No, that’s how it works. That’s awesome that the show starts, but yeah. On to Mahana mj.

Mahanna Jade [00:04:47]: Hey guys. Happy Tuesday. Good to be back, guys. Favorite part of the Week, of course. Really looking forward to tonight and just glad to be here. Of course.

Drew Mollo [00:04:58]: Oh, thank God. Thank God. That was a cat. I was like, what are you. What are you petting? I got very concerned. She heading. I was like, mj, did. Did we have a break?

Kari Sanders [00:05:11]: Did the darkness take your meds?

Drew Mollo [00:05:15]: No, no, baby, no. It’s all in your head. But that’s. That. That would mean she’s a zombie. Hey, everybody, it’s Tuesday and Leo lies. I did not hit him. This is like the room.

Drew Mollo [00:05:30]: I did not hit him. I did not. Oh, hi there. Did I say hit?

Leo Pond [00:05:34]: You use pliers.

Drew Mollo [00:05:36]: Oh, hi there, Carrie.

Kari Sanders [00:05:40]: Oh, hi there, Drew. Hi there, everybody. It’s me again. Ratatoska and I are hanging out, so I just. Ratatosker. He’s drinking his 99 espresso coffee because he’s getting the jitters and excited because this is one of our favorite guests. So rejoining us tonight, everybody, is two time ghastly Award winner, Bram Stoker award winner and multiple Eisner Award nominee. I mean, it started, right? Writing comics in 2011.

Kari Sanders [00:06:05]: Since that time, he has gifted us with the wrestling promising newcomer award winning Petrograd the Sixth Gun, a large chunk of work in the Mignola verse, Black Hammer, Eisner Award win nominated Harrow County, Lonesome Hunters, which he both wrote and drew out of Alcatraz. That came out recently. And so much more. He’s currently working on the upcoming Archie and Hell books. Outside of his work, he has a wonderful wife, Mott, with whom he raises chickens, a glorious cat named Tibbs, who might wander on camera at some point during this interview, and cultivates a very close community with his weekly Friday night comic book Cooldown show and Discord Server. Everyone please welcome Mr. Tyler Crook.

Drew Mollo [00:06:45]: Hey.

Tyler Crook [00:06:47]: Hi, everybody.

Drew Mollo [00:06:50]: That. That man has that old supernatural razzle dazzle. That’s what that is. That’s. That what’s what started the show. And everyone, I think we need to clarify. While it’s always good to have Tyler back, I believe, Carrie, he’s one of your favorite guests. Because that was.

Tyler Crook [00:07:05]: Yeah, not through his favorite guest.

Drew Mollo [00:07:07]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:07:10]: Hey, hey.

Drew Mollo [00:07:11]: I changed my shirt for you, man. Let’s not even get get here. I put a BPRD shirt on. Respect.

Tyler Crook [00:07:17]: Nice.

Drew Mollo [00:07:18]: Okay, so let’s not. I didn’t say that. I’m just saying Carrie literally hit all of the points like she was going to be quizzed after. She was like, okay, I gotta get this, I gotta get that. You know, like, literally, I was like, did you miss anything? I was like, could Someone pull up the wiki. I think she hit every point.

Tyler Crook [00:07:39]: That was a beautiful introduction. Thank you so much, Carrie.

Kari Sanders [00:07:42]: You’re welcome, sir. I. I spend every Friday with this man, and. And they’re in our little comic book cooldown family. That’s awesome. So it’s. It’s a pleasure to have my families combined together here over in Splash pages.

Drew Mollo [00:07:55]: That’s gonna be a weird Thanksgiving.

Kari Sanders [00:07:57]: Yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:08:00]: Hey, Mark, that. That’s gonna be one of those, like. Oh, hi, Mark. Thank you. And Carrie, thank you for indulging my. My room reference. I do appreciate it. It’s not very often that I get to just segue with some good old Tommy Wiseau.

Drew Mollo [00:08:16]: Thank you. And mj, the fact that you caught it, I was like, knew you were one of my favorites. Jar. You get nothing.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:08:21]: I’m sorry.

Drew Mollo [00:08:22]: It’s okay.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:08:23]: Elsewhere.

Drew Mollo [00:08:25]: Okay, bud. It’s okay. You literally look like if Jimmy Olsen became the Artful Dodger.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:08:32]: Hey, Jimmy Olsen now is like a ladies man, so I’m taking that as a compliment.

Drew Mollo [00:08:36]: You’re welcome. So, Tyler, first things first. Again, man. I was overlooking it. Thank you for coming back as much as you have. Like, I feel like I was talking about this with Carrie and I was like, I feel like we need to do like. Like SNL has a five Timers club. We have to do like a splash pages.

Drew Mollo [00:08:56]: Like. Like a. Like a. Like a. Like a five Timers club. You know, like, congratulations. You’ve joined us for five times.

Tyler Crook [00:09:03]: Either like a memorial spoon or something.

Drew Mollo [00:09:06]: Yeah, exactly. We got it. We’ll give. We’ll get. Yes. We’ll 100 do give you that nice memorial spoon and we’ll say it like the tick one. So spoon, spoon. But go, go.

Drew Mollo [00:09:21]: Carrie. You’re leaving.

Kari Sanders [00:09:23]: Oh, no, the spoon thing. I. I had an epic goat on Forsaken World as a pet. That’s name was spoon, exclamation point.

Drew Mollo [00:09:32]: You would. You.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:09:33]: You.

Drew Mollo [00:09:33]: You would.

Kari Sanders [00:09:34]: I would. I did. I did.

Drew Mollo [00:09:37]: So.

Kari Sanders [00:09:37]: It was so.

Drew Mollo [00:09:38]: I. Well, guys, if I. If I can, can I kick it off?

Kari Sanders [00:09:41]: Yes, please do.

Black Hammer, Colonel Weird, and Embracing the Weird

Drew Mollo [00:09:42]: Okay. First things first, Tyler. I’m a huge Black Hammer fan. I’ve had the privilege of getting to meet Jeff. We’re hopefully going to get him on the show at some point this year. He’s the nicest person in the world, which apparently is like my. My everyone. Angie confirms.

Drew Mollo [00:09:57]: This is my epitaph. It’ll be on my tombstone. Nicest guy. But I’m a huge Black Hammer fan and I loved, like, I had not gotten a chance to read Cosmogog and just reading it was such a wonderful kind of ending to kind of where the character left off in Age of Doom in the Black Hammer series. And just kind of stepping into that. I mean, dude, you nailed it. Like. Like, you.

Drew Mollo [00:10:30]: How do I say this? You embraced the weird. You know, pun intended. So coming into it, like, what was that like, you know, just coming into it and like, okay, I’m working on this. This project with this one character who’s almost like a mix of. Of Ditko, Doctor Strange meets DC’s Adam Strange, just Lost in the Twilight Zone.

Tyler Crook [00:10:56]: It was. It was weird, like, because I’ve. This is the closest I’ve ever done to, like, a superhero book, really. So I was re. I definitely, like, I referenced a ton of Kirby stuff and I referenced a ton of Ditko stuff, especially, like, Doctor Strange kind of stuff.

Drew Mollo [00:11:16]: Right.

Tyler Crook [00:11:17]: And then I just sort of did. Did the best I could at doing my own thing, doing my own version of it. That’s fun. Like, I really, like. Like some of these pages you’re showing right now, like, I love doing stuff that’s really sort of grounded in reality. So, like, doing this gas station was a blast for me. But then I really, really loved the. The contrast between the real stuff and the fake stuff.

Tyler Crook [00:11:44]: And I also feel like my. My painting really took a step up with. With Colonel Weird. I. I started working. I started inking in a slightly different way, and I think it added a lot to the. To the overall effect.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:11:57]: Totally. Your characters kind of pop off the page. Like, if you go back three pages. Look at that right there. Like, his face on the right hand side is, like, off the page. It’s pretty impressive. Beautiful coloring and everything.

Tyler Crook [00:12:16]: Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:12:18]: And. And I also didn’t realize this, but I think I saw in a previous interview you used. Was it the kid? Leave it to Beaver was like, the inspiration for. Am I right? Like, it was an older TV character, was the inspiration for his younger version, probably.

Tyler Crook [00:12:40]: I don’t. Dang. I don’t even remember exactly because, I mean, the. The script had, you know, described the kid, but I don’t remember exactly how it described him.

Leo Pond [00:12:53]: It gave me sort of.

Tyler Crook [00:12:55]: Yeah, like, there’s definitely, like, just that 50s or like. Yeah. Not really, like, Little Rascals stuff.

Drew Mollo [00:13:05]: Yeah. Let’s say a little. Kind of a little alfalfa there right there. A little bit. You know,

Tyler Crook [00:13:16]: I’ve said this in a. In a bunch of interviews, but I remember, like, when I was first getting into. Into comics, into making comics, I would listen to interviews with other creators. And the creators would be like, I don’t remember any of this. And I would always hear that and be like, oh, they’re they’re just lying. They just don’t want to talk about it. And now that I’m. How late? I’m like 15 years into my career, and I’m like, I don’t remember any of this.

Tyler Crook [00:13:43]: I don’t.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:13:44]: Yeah, we get it a lot.

Tyler Crook [00:13:46]: It does happen to this.

Drew Mollo [00:13:50]: Hey, Dylan. Well, it’s okay, because I. I believe we’ve done an interview with the late great Keith Giffen, who flat out and near the end of his career refused to do panels at conventions because he just got tired of. Of. He just got tired of people. Hey, what happened in this page? You know, all these, like, I don’t know, like, it was like 20 years ago. Yeah. Like.

Drew Mollo [00:14:19]: But again, he did it in that. That Keith Giff. I was like, I don’t know. You. Like, whatever. Like, moving on. Next. Next question.

Drew Mollo [00:14:26]: It was just like, oh, God, super cool. But the other thing I kind of a question to you guys, those of you who haven’t really read Black Hammer, like, was it easy for you guys to follow?

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:14:42]: It was definitely weird.

Drew Mollo [00:14:43]: I’ll. I’ll.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:14:44]: Like, I was not lost, but intrigued. More like where. Where each page turned. I was like, where are we going? What’s happening here? What has he forgotten? God damn it.

Drew Mollo [00:14:57]: Okay, what about you?

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:14:59]: I had fun with it. It read really easy.

Mahanna Jade [00:15:05]: I agree. It was a really easy. But I liked the sort that oftentimes likes where even though the plot’s not so obvious, I’m one of those likes to, you know, make. Make the reader work for a little bit. And I really enjoyed the story overall. Absolutely. It was easy read, but also you. It wasn’t very predictable.

Mahanna Jade [00:15:26]: Like, okay, what’s this connected to? How does this connect? So on and so forth. But I really enjoyed it.

Drew Mollo [00:15:32]: Nice.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:15:33]: Okay.

Drew Mollo [00:15:33]: I mean, it’s funny because mj, I had like, a joke with Carrie. I was like, I don’t know. It was either going to be, you know, or Carrie, that if you guys both read Black Hammer, one of you is going to have to do Madame Dragonfly. And then I was like, it doesn’t matter. Just spooky, basically. Spooky Goth babe with her own house of horrors in the swamp, who’s part of the team. But not really.

Mahanna Jade [00:15:56]: I mean, to be fair, I’ve got dead things in jars. That counts, though.

Drew Mollo [00:16:00]: Yeah. 100. Welcome to the team.

Mahanna Jade [00:16:04]: No, I got someone for my birthday, gave me A baby opossum in. In, like in a jar.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:16:11]: Oh, wow.

Mahanna Jade [00:16:12]: And a frog’s heart as a necklace and also in a jar. You know what I mean? People give me these things. Obviously.

Drew Mollo [00:16:18]: Mj, cool. For any birthday, I’m giving you a gift card. Respectfully, I can’t.

Tyler Crook [00:16:27]: We used to subscribe to a. One of those blind boxes services, but it was called Bone Box and they would just send you bones every month.

Drew Mollo [00:16:40]: Really?

Tyler Crook [00:16:41]: And so.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:16:43]: Oh my God.

Drew Mollo [00:16:44]: Did you not see MJ’s face as you said that, Tyler?

Mahanna Jade [00:16:46]: She was like, oh, yeah, I had bones.

Tyler Crook [00:16:50]: We eventually canceled because we were running out of space to store our new bones and they sent us an alligator foot. And we were sort of like that. That’s not doing it for me. Like, I kind of liked having a cleaned up skull, but like a desiccated alligator foot was a bit.

Mahanna Jade [00:17:07]: I would literally. I would literally turn it to like a hair. Like something.

Drew Mollo [00:17:12]: Do you enjoy my alligator claw hair pick? Thank you.

Mahanna Jade [00:17:15]: No. I’m thousand percent.

Drew Mollo [00:17:16]: Mj. Mj. No, we know you’re not joking. We’ve seen. We’ve. We’ve spent enough time with you. Just like the. The.

Drew Mollo [00:17:25]: The. The raven ass over there. We know. No, there’s no joking. That’s 100 serious.

Kari Sanders [00:17:31]: My. My sister’s father. Oh, sorry.

Leo Pond [00:17:34]: I was just gonna say I have a Leoism regarding a bone. If you’re.

Drew Mollo [00:17:38]: No, no, no, no, no. You. You’re on hold. Carrie, go.

Kari Sanders [00:17:43]: My sister’s father in law makes jewelry and things out of various things that have been removed from his friends and family’s bodies.

Drew Mollo [00:17:55]: So.

Kari Sanders [00:17:56]: So one year she got like hoop earrings with somebody’s molars in them. And she was a good sport and wore them. I want them. But she’s like, you gave them to me. I gotta deal with them.

Drew Mollo [00:18:10]: I like how you had to add good sport. And

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:18:15]: so I’m trying to google this place now. The bone box.

Mahanna Jade [00:18:19]: A month when I was still enlisted. Yeah. I had to help out to. It was the coolest thing I think I’ve ever done was I got to run a retort and. Retort is what the. When they cremate the bodies. It’s called retort.

Drew Mollo [00:18:34]: Okay.

Mahanna Jade [00:18:36]: Everything burns up. We all know that. Right? We get that. But.

Drew Mollo [00:18:39]: Right.

Mahanna Jade [00:18:39]: This person had like a hip replacement and it was this little. And it was left. It was this beautiful. You don’t realize how beautiful it looks like a. It almost looked like a very fancy like a sake cup or something. It was so gorgeous. And that this is. It was really cool.

Mahanna Jade [00:18:56]: And Then I gave to the family member, asked if they wanted it, and she’s like, yeah, of course she took it. And she literally had it engraved. It was just very cool to see, like. Like a year later in the shops. And she’s like, oh, by the way, she had a picture of this.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:19:12]: All right.

Drew Mollo [00:19:13]: Okay. I. I was expecting a far worse thing, but then again, it was.

Mahanna Jade [00:19:17]: It was really cool. It was just one. That’s really cool. You don’t think about it, you know?

Drew Mollo [00:19:21]: All right, Leo, go.

Leo Pond [00:19:24]: Okay. I’ll try to make this quick, you know. You know, I grew up in the sticks, you know, on a farm.

Drew Mollo [00:19:30]: Two of them.

Leo Pond [00:19:31]: I was in one. I was roaming a field once, and I found a, uh, old bull skull. And, uh, you know, I did like any kid would do. I brought it to school and chased the other kids with it. You know, I. I brought it home. And my mom had a. We lived on this long dirt road like that nobody traveled on.

Leo Pond [00:19:54]: And my mom had a statue of a native in the front of the house, but somebody knocked its head off. So I thought, okay, I’m gonna put the skull on the head. So you got a native with a cow skull on top.

Drew Mollo [00:20:06]: Okay.

Leo Pond [00:20:07]: My dad used to love to talk to, like, Jehovah’s Witnesses and stuff like that.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:20:11]: Oh, yes.

Leo Pond [00:20:14]: One day, one’s coming up, they drive into the driveway, they see the statue with the cow skull. They just back right up. Don’t even come in.

Drew Mollo [00:20:24]: Leo, I’m gonna say this in the nicest way possible. Please write these things down, because if I can’t believe it, then it means other people won’t. And you could make money off of that. So, you know, please write these down, because what the fuck, dude? Respect.

Kari Sanders [00:20:42]: Living on an acreage that had had cattle on it before. We, as kids, like. Like tweenagers, I guess, came across a whole buried skeleton. It was just like. They just dumped it on this hill. And it was like, there’s a road cut into the hill. As we were going down, we’re like, what’s that? And so we turned it into, like, an archaeological excavation. We’re out there, like, dance.

Kari Sanders [00:21:05]: It’s an entire skeleton. And we start. We’re getting close on the head, and the rest of it was underneath at the front or whatever. And my sister. Well, my stepsister looks at it, and we’re, like, trying to figure out. Because we didn’t know what it was right off the bat. Didn’t realize, you know, farmers will just bury them. And she’s like, you guys, maybe It’s a rhino.

Kari Sanders [00:21:26]: And we like, she’s 51 now and we have not stopped giving her for like 30 some years. It’s a rhino in Nebraska. Really?

Drew Mollo [00:21:41]: Listen, it could have been. So it basically could have been. It’s a saber tooth tiger, you know, a woolly mammoth.

Tyler Crook [00:21:52]: Were there like not to derail, but there was like some sort of rhino megaphone in North America, right, like tens of thousands of years ago.

Drew Mollo [00:22:03]: Yeah, of course.

Tyler Crook [00:22:04]: Wasn’t there?

Drew Mollo [00:22:05]: Yeah.

Kari Sanders [00:22:05]: We need Emma.

Tyler Crook [00:22:07]: So your sister was only off by about, you know, 50,000 years.

Drew Mollo [00:22:12]: Yeah, by a couple thousand years.

Mahanna Jade [00:22:16]: Just that old chestnut, you know, 50,000 years. It’s all right.

Drew Mollo [00:22:21]: Yeah, yeah.

Kari Sanders [00:22:22]: But we, we’ve definitely derailed here. But while we’re talking about things that are buried, we often find them in marshes and so maybe we can hop back on. I’m going to, I’m going to switch over to Sir Edward Gray Witch Hunter and let’s chat a little bit about that. Doing some of the Mignola stuff because

Drew Mollo [00:22:40]: what a spectacular, spooky tale. I just never read it. Loved it. Obvious. I mean represent loved it. The style, man. I mean I, I was saying this to Carrie because, you know, she’s, she’s

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:22:58]: part of your community.

Drew Mollo [00:22:59]: She’s like number five fan. You know, she’s working her way up the ranks. There were others there before her. So, you know, she’s got a respect. But you know, eventually travel combat will get her to number two. But just the, the style was just fantastic, man. I mean you have this very. Like I said this to Carrie.

Drew Mollo [00:23:18]: I was like, he has this way like, it’s very simplistic style but then the attention to detail. I feel like just how smooth and painted and whatnot. I just feel like it just makes the horror even crazier. Like, like, literally. I was like, I’m never trusting eels ever again. You know, I didn’t trust them too much before, but now I’m like, especially not just any eels, Tyler. Talking eels, you can’t.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:23:46]: Especially if they’re wearing a suit.

Drew Mollo [00:23:48]: Right? Like, like you’d think, oh, that’s so cute. No, no. This is why we have to stop trying to do deep sea exploration. There is some scary down there. Apparently is scary in the marshes too.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:24:04]: Okay, so that’s true.

Drew Mollo [00:24:06]: Kudos to you, sir. Yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:24:11]: The big problem with the eels that was very frustrating is that I know that the eels in England are not moray eels. But at the time, like, I for the life of me could not find any photo reference of an eel that wasn’t like a moray eel. It was incredibly frustrating. Like I could find a couple different eels, but I couldn’t find, like,

Drew Mollo [00:24:39]: I

Tyler Crook [00:24:40]: just couldn’t find the kind of reference I could.

Drew Mollo [00:24:41]: Did anyone call you out? Was there anyone who was quite British?

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:24:49]: MJ called up? This is.

Drew Mollo [00:24:52]: No. So it wasn’t correct.

Tyler Crook [00:24:56]: Mike, I, I’m really proud of, of this page that you have up on the right that the suspicions of Constable George Lawless is.

Drew Mollo [00:25:05]: Yeah, that was funny.

Tyler Crook [00:25:07]: It’s really funny.

Drew Mollo [00:25:08]: I, I, I’m not gonna lie to you. I kind of imagined like some old school, like saloon music going on the back, you know? You know, just, yeah, it was, it was, it was crazy. I was like, damn.

Leo Pond [00:25:22]: Sorry I have to absolutely say this, otherwise I’m gonna go crazy. They, they don’t have more a eels over there. They have less raels.

Kari Sanders [00:25:35]: Carrie.

Drew Mollo [00:25:36]: Carrie cut his mic. You’re out.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:25:41]: Leo.

Drew Mollo [00:25:43]: Good for.

Tyler Crook [00:25:44]: This was also, this was also the book that I think that, that the colors looked the best on me of all my Mignola stuff. I think this was, yeah, not the best because we were doing like a combo of ink washes and, and digital color. And I think it just really, really worked. It makes me wish that I had done that for, for like all might be PRD stuff.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:26:13]: I mean, I always wonder when you’re painting like this, how like a page, like how long does that take? Is that, are you like a page a day guy? Or do you keep yourself to a strict like. Or even do you just go, hey, if I get it done, I get it done.

Tyler Crook [00:26:32]: I am a, it’s hard to say, like it ends up being more, a little more than a page a day. But it’s sort of split up by tasks. So like when I’m penciling, I try to pencil two pages a day. And then when I’m inking, I try to ink two pages a day. But it, so some days, like yesterday for example, I actually managed to get done at like 4:30 and was like, okay, I get to take the rest of the day off. But that’s pretty rare.

Mahanna Jade [00:27:03]: That’s such a satisfying feeling too, to be done early. It’s so rare.

Tyler Crook [00:27:07]: Yeah, yeah. No, and it’s like sometimes I’ll, sometimes like I’ll feel bad because I’m like, I gotta, I should be doing other stuff. But at the same time I’m like, well, I worked late the last three days, so it’s okay if I, you know, knock off a little bit early today?

Kari Sanders [00:27:25]: Absolutely.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:27:26]: Mark, these pages are amazing.

Kari Sanders [00:27:30]: I always Love when I’m reading through your stuff, because I’m always like, oh, and we’re gonna have some Prussian blue and some Payne’s gray, and it’s gonna happen. There it is.

Mahanna Jade [00:27:39]: All right. Very Bob Ross.

Drew Mollo [00:27:43]: Yeah, we’re just gonna add some Prussian blue there. It’s gonna really bring out. You know, I really.

Mahanna Jade [00:27:52]: I really like the use of, like, who’s in the Washington? And all that. And I’m. It’s. I like. Okay. Because of the. Of the. The wash and all that and the other vibrancy.

Mahanna Jade [00:28:05]: It makes it pop more than if it was all super vibrant and things all over the place.

Tyler Crook [00:28:11]: Yeah. I like that they did that. We did like, the slightly yellow.

Mahanna Jade [00:28:18]: Yes.

Tyler Crook [00:28:19]: Paper look all the way across to make it look a little bit older.

Drew Mollo [00:28:23]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:28:23]: I think they should have extended it into the. The balloons, though. But that’s sort of a harder sell for editorial, I think.

Kari Sanders [00:28:34]: Does have that nice older look, though.

Drew Mollo [00:28:38]: Let’s see. The thing I also enjoyed about the eels is that the way that you drew them, they definitely had, like. I. I think there was like, a scene or two later on that I think. I think it was during one of the flashbacks that they definitely gave me, like, some distant relative Ogdru Jihad kind of vibe to it. And, you know, and I was like, oh, man. That’s like. And I don’t know if that’s just.

Drew Mollo [00:29:02]: Again, having read as much BPRD and Hellboy stuff as I have, but, like, I was like, yeah, that’s like, Again, like, it was oddly like. And again, I wasn’t sure if I was like, am I kind of picking up on something he’s putting down that subtle or. I was like, nope, it’s just still great. These spooky snake looking evil.

Tyler Crook [00:29:25]: It’s sort of that, like, all that Lovecraft stuff is all. Fish.

Drew Mollo [00:29:32]: Fish. Yeah.

Kari Sanders [00:29:32]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:29:34]: It definitely calls back to that. And the Audrey Hammer. Sort of inspired by a lot of the Lovecraft stuff.

Kari Sanders [00:29:42]: Oh, yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:29:44]: I just. I just want to know what crab hurt HP so bad that he’s just like, nope.

Mahanna Jade [00:29:50]: Like poisoning.

Drew Mollo [00:29:52]: Yeah. You know what? He went out to dinner one day. Food poisoning. I was like, it was the calamari

Mahanna Jade [00:30:01]: author that’s been that adamant of being these. These grotesque things. They’re all C related.

Drew Mollo [00:30:08]: Yeah. The man was trying to get us out of the water before Steven Spielberg ever put a single fish in it

Kari Sanders [00:30:16]: in my family left it. And we have never looked back. We’re just like, no. Well, okay. Except for the ones who joined the Navy, but. But the rest of Us are firmly grounded. We are drylanders.

Drew Mollo [00:30:31]: But I, I also say I love like Tyler, I love the flashbacks, like kind of explaining more of the history, but when they reveal what happened to the, the, the, the, the head guy in the story to his son and how that just. I was like, oh. I was like, God damn. That was like. Again, how you depicted that again, I’m not trying to spoil anything. Everybody read his work. That was heartbreaking.

Kari Sanders [00:31:00]: Look though, we. Azathoth pike, if we are. If you want to talk Lovecraft, right down there, the bottom name on the board, that’s, that’s your little Easter egg for, for that page of. Does it have to do with Lovecraft? Oh, maybe, you know, blind idiot God out there swirling around. Maybe.

Tyler Crook [00:31:19]: I can’t remember if that was in the script or not or, or if I actually had to look those up and come up with names for that. They were probably in the script as

Kari Sanders [00:31:31]: a, as a big Lovecraftian, I write it and stuff. I was, I was very impressed with all of the little things with the faces of townspeople, the infant with the black eyes. That’s just like watching him and stuff. Those are all amazing.

Tyler Crook [00:31:47]: Yeah, yeah. The, the writers on this Kim Newman and I think you pronounce her name Moira, they did such a great job. Like, they were just so, like, I don’t know, just reading, reading the script, you’re like, okay, these people are, are like they live in Great Britain.

Drew Mollo [00:32:12]: Right.

Tyler Crook [00:32:12]: I think, I think Moira is. I never actually spoke to either of them, but I think Moira’s in, in Ireland and Kim is in England.

Drew Mollo [00:32:23]: Far away, Far away from the madness.

Tyler Crook [00:32:26]: Yeah, but you could tell like there was like Kim Newman in particular has like an encyclopedic knowledge of like horror stuff. And you could, you could really feel it in, in how they put the story together and how they, how they wrote it.

Kari Sanders [00:32:41]: It’s just lovely and creepy all at once. Which is, which is the way it’s supposed to flow with stuff like that. It’s just. You get your grotesqueness, but then you go back to these very gothic proper people, you know, that are doing their thing, and then you have the out in the Martian, the accents and everything involved in the way they speak to. And this little black eyed kid over here too, was just your art put together with it. This was just Chef’s kiss of a book.

Leo Pond [00:33:11]: Thank you.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:33:12]: So how do you come up with the children, with the media? Is that in the script or are you like, you know what these kids to be more creepy like, because.

Tyler Crook [00:33:22]: No, that’s. That’s definitely in the script. I remember, I remember describing a lot of people as being like, starting to look fish. Like, I guess you are what you eat.

Kari Sanders [00:33:38]: Well, and Lou, you might want to take it down. And if you can go towards the end, there’s a lot of. If this is the trade paperback, there’s a lot of your.

Drew Mollo [00:33:48]: Oh, yeah.

Kari Sanders [00:33:49]: Art as far as, like, how you were character design and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, that we can.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:33:56]: That’s where I came up.

Tyler Crook [00:33:58]: Weirdly. The thing with this that I loved the most is I love that Victorian layers that people dress in. I absolutely love a dude with a tall collar and a tie and a vest and a jacket and a coat. Like, yeah, let’s go, let’s go.

Kari Sanders [00:34:19]: That’s the longest strip tease ever.

Mahanna Jade [00:34:23]: There’s no such thing as a quick change. You know, it’s just.

Tyler Crook [00:34:27]: Yeah, yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:34:29]: And. And like I said. And I think the thing that I also like, the level of expression was just fantastic. It’s like even in the beginning when they’re all just talking and shooting the. And what was that one? I was like, oh, yeah, this will, this will work. Scottish whiskey. I’m like, oh, God. Of course.

Drew Mollo [00:34:48]: Like, you know, just the, the humanity. Like, you just capture the humanity so well. And that’s something I definitely noticed in like, Harrow County and Lonesome Hunters. Like, you’ve just got these people. They’re like, we’re just doing the thing, just living the life and then just gets weird and creepy and what. And then you have, you know, this character who’s a witch finder who’s, you know, in the employment of the queen. And he just keeps getting just the short end of the. Of the strange stick.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:35:22]: I. I love how he corrects. What’s your name? And he’s like, no, we don’t burn them anymore. We hang them.

Drew Mollo [00:35:29]: Yep. And I was like, what?

Why Character Emotion Matters More Than Monster Design

Getting that characterization right is almost always the most important thing to me, even more important than getting the monsters right.

Tyler Crook, 00:35:35

Tyler Crook [00:35:35]: It’s always the most. Like, getting that characterization right is almost always like the most important thing to me. Even more important than getting the monsters right. Like, I always just want to make sure that, like, the emotions of the characters are coming through to like any reader who’s reading it. And I want to make sure that, like. Because the absolute worst thing in a comic to me is when something terrible happens and the artist draws the people around it sort of dead faced, like

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:36:02]: not reacting to it until which character it is.

Tyler Crook [00:36:05]: Yeah. But like, I always feel like the, the. The. Especially with like, horror stuff, it’s like you have to have the characters have to React in horror in order for the reader to understand, like, oh, this is horrible. You know, if it’s just sort of like if the, if the characters aren’t reacting appropriately, then it’s sort of like, oh, I guess it’s no big deal.

Kari Sanders [00:36:30]: Yeah. And I, I’ve seen you go over and go over and like, oh, I gotta fix this hair. Oh, I gotta do this. Oh, God damn it. It’s.

Drew Mollo [00:36:38]: It’s.

Kari Sanders [00:36:39]: It’s fun to see you, but you’re able to fix things quite well. As soon as you catch that, there’s something that’s like, oh, maybe not.

Tyler Crook [00:36:45]: Oh, but yeah, I can’t look at any of these pages now without being like, man, I wish I could redo a lot of this, but weirdly, they won’t pay me to redraw this book.

Drew Mollo [00:36:59]: That’s.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:37:01]: Call them up, Drew.

Drew Mollo [00:37:02]: Nope, they don’t answer my phone calls either. I’m still trying to try. I’m still trying to do. I’m still trying to get Batman, Starman, Hellboy 2, the star. The stars are trying to kill us.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:37:19]: Do you use human models or anything like that for reference or.

How He Uses Photo Reference to Solve Poses

Tyler Crook [00:37:24]: Oh, yeah, big time. In fact, nowadays I didn’t do it as much back when I was doing Witchfinder, but nowadays it’s like when I’m penciling a page, it’s usually like the first 20 minutes I’ll sort of look at the pages that I’m going to pencil that day, and I sort of figure out which poses are going to give me problems. And then I shoot a bunch of photos on my phone to help me figure out how to problem solve a pose. And it ends up saving me so much time just being able to look at a photo instead of having to like, just construct it out of shapes and try to make it work.

Drew Mollo [00:37:59]: Well, funny you say that because I was speaking to someone in your community that was telling me about this fun project that you’re doing where it appears you have quite a few very notable models. Isn’t that right, Ms. Sanders?

Kari Sanders [00:38:16]: Oh, it’s not so much notable models. It’s that everybody’s. Lee, if you want to take down the thing. We were talking about the comic Book Cooldown community and something really fun. You can find it on His Discord, by the way, and go every Friday night at. Well, for me it’s at 9pm in Eastern, but we’ve been working together. Tyler has been drawing this really awesome comic. Space Dinosaur is what we’re going with his working title so far, but he’s been listening to all of us putting in contributions, and there’s a place on the discord to put in little suggestions and ideas.

Kari Sanders [00:38:56]: And it’s this beautiful coming together of a community putting together a piece of art through, like, our favorite artists. So I.

Tyler Crook [00:39:05]: It’s really fun. Like, I did not. I sort of. I didn’t think I would do it more than one night. And now I think we’re on, like, seven weeks of. Of working on this, and it’s only, you know, we’re only working on it for, like, an hour a week, so it’s. We’re not very far along, but it’s been really fun to just sort of, like, I’ll be like, I don’t know what the next panel will be, and we’ll sort of talk it through with the chat and figure it out and come up with something that’ll. That’ll work, and we just keep moving.

Tyler Crook [00:39:33]: I actually went and grabbed the pages beforehand just to show.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:39:36]: Oh, sweet.

Drew Mollo [00:39:37]: A little bit. Oh, sweet.

Tyler Crook [00:39:39]: It’s not gonna, like, full screen it, Leo.

Mahanna Jade [00:39:41]: That’s cool.

Drew Mollo [00:39:43]: Oh, that’s rad.

Tyler Crook [00:39:45]: Yeah, it won’t focus for me, but.

Drew Mollo [00:39:48]: Oh, that is so cool, man. Look at the expression then.

Tyler Crook [00:39:56]: This is where we’re at right now.

Drew Mollo [00:39:58]: Nice. Well, the first two pages look great.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:40:02]: The other 22, time to kick start.

Tyler Crook [00:40:05]: I don’t know. I don’t know how long we can keep it up. At some point, I’m probably gonna be like, I can’t work on this anymore, and we’ll have to stop, but we’ll see. But it’s. I think it’s fun. Like, if you want to make comics, I’m. I hope that it’s, like, at least informative to, like, sit down and talk about it in real time and sort of troubleshoot. And it’s not at all.

Tyler Crook [00:40:27]: It’s not at all how I make a comic if I’m making a comic for a job, because if it’s for something to be published, it’s like, I’m gonna sit down, I’m gonna work out my outline, and I’m gonna work on the outline a ton until I get it, like, exactly where I want it, and then I’ll write a script for it, and then I’ll do layouts. And, you know, it’s like a whole. It’s a whole involvement process, and here we’re sort of just going right to the page with it. So it’s a little bit more. It’s a little bit more likely to fail as a story because of that. But. But it’s in the making. That’s really fun.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:41:02]: Are you, do you, Carrie, have a murder room for this story? Is there going to be a bible that Carrie puts together and like, hold on, you can’t do that because back in four pages ago, you killed them off.

Drew Mollo [00:41:15]: Yeah, sounds like.

Kari Sanders [00:41:16]: Don’t put me in charge of this. Mod is handling everything wonderfully on the Discord. They’ve got a channel set aside so that one of the threads or whatever they’re called, on Discord, you go onto the live stream page and there’s a little thing you can join in and everybody can put in their ideas and stuff. I, I’m just part of the crowd. I, I’m nobody special. I just, I just hang out.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:41:40]: Hey, don’t, don’t be special here.

Mahanna Jade [00:41:45]: I gotta get on Discord. Just.

Drew Mollo [00:41:47]: I do you do you need to get on my Discord.

Tyler Crook [00:41:50]: So that’s the idea about it.

Mahanna Jade [00:41:53]: So I gotta get on it.

Tyler Crook [00:41:53]: If we can, if we can ever finish it, we’ll probably just publish it digitally. And in the meantime, I’ve, I’ve not set aside the time to go to do it, but I need to scan it so people could grab it, grab some high res files off the Discord if they wanted to like, practice their digital coloring or, or whatever.

Drew Mollo [00:42:11]: Oh yeah. Well, I mean, and then, and then the crazy thing is, you know, a lot of this work and Carrie’s telling me this and this blew my mind. Carrie, right. A lot of this stuff is like pages that we’ve seen tonight. Some of that stuff’s available on his site, right?

Kari Sanders [00:42:28]: Yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:42:31]: Segue.

Kari Sanders [00:42:32]: Leo, do you wanna. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leo Pond [00:42:35]: Let me pull this up. I’ll bring everybody on a little tour first.

Kari Sanders [00:42:40]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:42:41]: Just to be clear, this isn’t the, the stuff we’re working on in the live stream. This is like the, like the books that we’ve been talking about. Yeah.

Kari Sanders [00:42:51]: Okay.

Drew Mollo [00:42:53]: Is there gonna be a quiz?

Leo Pond [00:42:57]: Okay, so if you haven’t seen our, our new website, definitely head on over to splash pagescompany.com and where you can find Tyler’s interview right here. And a lot of people probably watching live right there. But if you go to his creator hub, you can find all the links for Tyler right here. His website, his blue sky and whatnot. You can learn more about Tyler recommended reading. And the cool thing is after this interview is done, so since he’s been on several times before, you can find like his older interview and we actually take the whole transcript and mine it for information. So like key quotes, what the information is about a lot of stuff. So just head on back to the website, but let’s head on over to Tyler’s page.

Leo Pond [00:43:51]: And, Carrie, if you want to hop

Kari Sanders [00:43:54]: up over to the store there.

Drew Mollo [00:43:56]: Yeah, sweet.

Kari Sanders [00:44:00]: So a lot of these, and, Tyler, I’ll let you get into it. Some of these are done on the show. Some of these are done for commissions. And then this is a lot of original artwork that you can buy. And as you can see, some of them are sold out. But some of everything that we covered tonight is for sale right now on his page. And I will let you go ahead and talk some more about it, since it is your artwork.

Drew Mollo [00:44:26]: It’s his store. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:44:28]: We just. Like you said, we got a bunch of stuff up there. We got some Witchfinder pages. We got some BPRD pages. We got a lot of Alcatraz out of Alcatraz pages. Just because that’s my most recent book. The stuff we posted most recently was that we saw at the top of the page was stuff that was. Some of that was done on the live stream, but a lot of it was just sort of sketches that I had laying around.

Tyler Crook [00:44:55]: So we wanted to put out some stuff that was really affordable. Just because nothing’s affordable right now.

Drew Mollo [00:45:02]: No.

Tyler Crook [00:45:02]: And so we thought we’d put a bunch of stuff up that would be a little bit more accessible to people.

Kari Sanders [00:45:08]: You gotta scroll down to Drew’s favorite if you can.

Drew Mollo [00:45:13]: Don’t do this. You’ll see every time.

Kari Sanders [00:45:16]: It’s the Ghostbuster. Ghostbuster cover.

Drew Mollo [00:45:21]: Oh, yeah. I swear, man, every time I see it, I’m like, I gotta get a better job. Good God, it’s so beautiful.

Tyler Crook [00:45:31]: Thank you. I’m very, very happy.

Kari Sanders [00:45:33]: Right there.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:45:34]: Yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:45:34]: Look at that. Bring that up, Leo. Look at that.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:45:39]: Pretty gorgeous, right?

Drew Mollo [00:45:43]: Hold on, let me just zoom into it.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:45:45]: Yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:45:45]: Not in my lifetime.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:45:46]: No, you could hang that right in your living room. Right behind you.

Drew Mollo [00:45:49]: Yes, I could, but I need to pay rent, so that is what stops me.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:45:58]: Explain to your landlord. Be like, look. Look at this.

Drew Mollo [00:46:02]: Moving on. Yeah, but I mean, God, it’s so pretty, man. Look at that. And then it was like. I was like, again, the book was great, but that was my favorite cover. I was like, look at how dope that is.

Tyler Crook [00:46:20]: Thanks. Yeah. I was really excited when they. They used it as the. The COVID for the trade.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:46:27]: Yeah.

Drew Mollo [00:46:28]: I was like, yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:46:31]: I mean, I can’t even remember. It was originally a variant, I think, and not necessarily the, like, the A cover.

Drew Mollo [00:46:39]: Right.

Tyler Crook [00:46:40]: But everybody did not expect it to go on The. Onto the trade.

Drew Mollo [00:46:45]: Well, it’s because it’s just so, like. Like, you got the. Like, you just did the classics, man. And I own enough Ghostbuster comic covers to say this. You know, you just said enough in the. It’s. It’s old school. You said enough in the COVID to hook somebody and be like, oh, you know, plus, you got the ecto, so you got that nice product placement there.

Drew Mollo [00:47:07]: You got exactly what that is. And then that ship looks spooky af. So.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:47:12]: Yeah.

Kari Sanders [00:47:15]: And as Ma was saying, you can also pick up his books in there. So if you don’t know where to buy them, your local comic book shop may not have a copy of it. You could buy it directly from the source.

Drew Mollo [00:47:27]: Yeah, yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:47:28]: And there’s some stuff we have in there that I think is pretty hard to get otherwise. And we’re just selling it all cover price.

Drew Mollo [00:47:33]: Yep. Shut up and take care of money.

Kari Sanders [00:47:36]: Yeah, basically.

Tyler Crook [00:47:37]: That’s very nice.

Kari Sanders [00:47:40]: You’ll be like, Carrie won the lottery and gave it to Tyler Craig.

Drew Mollo [00:47:43]: Hold on.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:47:44]: I saw Masters of the Universe thing. Go back, Leo.

Tyler Crook [00:47:48]: I was very excited to get to do that one. It’s a Masters of Universe and Ninja Turtles, that one.

Drew Mollo [00:47:56]: Bring it up, Leo. Wow. Jar. Look at Leo.

Tyler Crook [00:48:01]: Is that Leo? Who’s the purple?

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:48:05]: Yeah, Leo’s purple.

Drew Mollo [00:48:06]: Pull, right?

Tyler Crook [00:48:06]: Yeah. They’re working on the old attack. Attack.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:48:13]: That is so dope.

Mahanna Jade [00:48:14]: That is incredible.

Drew Mollo [00:48:16]: Yeah, if you zoom in it. Look at the detail on that. Beautiful.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:48:26]: That’s so cool. Are you a Masters Universe fan? Turtle fan?

Tyler Crook [00:48:33]: I’m not. Like, I like turtles. Just, like, every, like, living human being likes Ninja Turtles, but, like, yeah, Masters of the Universe is one of those things that, like, I really, really loved as a kid. And I’m not. I’m definitely not as obsessed with them as. As a lot of people are, but I. I do, like, have a. Still have a love of messaging that, like, I’m.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:48:58]: I’m stoked about the new movie. I. I don’t even care if it’s gonna be bad.

Drew Mollo [00:49:03]: Yeah, he’s just.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:49:04]: Old movie.

Drew Mollo [00:49:05]: He’s ready.

Tyler Crook [00:49:06]: I was excited until I saw Jared Leto was in it, and I’m just like, thank you. They need to, like, yeah, me to go see that guy.

Drew Mollo [00:49:13]: I was just like. I was like, why did we choose him? Is it because he already had, you know. You know what? Not gonna say it? I don’t want to get. I don’t. I don’t want anyone to go in for the kill. So we’re not doing this.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:49:25]: They revealed his voice, so it didn’t sound horrible. I. I just. I’m hoping. I’m hoping beyond hope that they keep it in Eternia for most of the movie. And I hope that Orko somewhere shows up.

Drew Mollo [00:49:39]: Okay, I’m just. Listen, Jar, I swear to God, if he says it’s Morbin time, I’m like, okay, that’s it. This movie’s already done. Like, done. Can’t even.

Tyler Crook [00:49:54]: But yeah, it does. It does look beautiful, though. When I first saw that trailer, I was very excited about it.

Drew Mollo [00:49:59]: I. I like Tyler. Jar is our de facto, like, person. So literally, I just saw it and I was like, but what does Jeremy think?

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:50:09]: Oh, just lots of hopes. Lots.

Drew Mollo [00:50:12]: Yeah, you know, it’s the same thing. Like, anytime something Ghostbusters drops, the.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:50:16]: The.

Drew Mollo [00:50:17]: These knuckleheads are like, but, Drew, what do you think? And I was like, it will do. It will do. Barely. Yes.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:50:26]: Yeah, good enough, good enough.

Kari Sanders [00:50:30]: And then, yeah, Mahana and I are the horror girls, so.

Mahanna Jade [00:50:35]: Holy crap, Catwoman.

Kari Sanders [00:50:37]: And speaking of horror, you have something coming up that you are working on right now. Would you like to tell us what it is, Tyler?

Tyler Crook [00:50:46]: Sure. Nice segue about it at this point, but I just started drawing Archie in Hell, and it’s a sort of a co production between Archie Comics and Oni Press, and I always say his last name wrong. Patrick Hovarth.

Drew Mollo [00:51:05]: Okay.

Tyler Crook [00:51:06]: The writer for Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees is writing it, and I’m drawing it so good. Yeah, I think it’s gonna be really, really fun. We’re. Like I said, we’re already. We’re already starting out. It won’t come out till November.

Drew Mollo [00:51:20]: Right.

Tyler Crook [00:51:21]: But. But I think it’s gonna be good.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:51:24]: I know you can’t give away too many spoilers, but do you get to kill people in it? Characters that are. Are part of the Archie universe.

Drew Mollo [00:51:35]: Well.

Tyler Crook [00:51:35]: And they can say that it’s. It’s called Archie in Hell for a reason.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:51:39]: Yes.

Kari Sanders [00:51:40]: Okay, well. And both you and Patrick are writer and illustrators or the writers and artists. So. And I. I love Beneath the Trees, and I can see exactly how well you would work with each other because of the thought processes involved are not the same, but very similar. I can see you jumping on the same tracks and.

Drew Mollo [00:52:01]: And also on top of it, like, what are you guys doing to Archie? Like, we already got our. Our good buddy Eric Burnham is doing army of Darkness versus Archie, and that’s been awesome. And then now Archie in Hell. I’m like, what did. Did he choose wrong with. With Betty and Veronica and that’s why he’s in hell. Like, like, it’s like, like Last Crusade. He chooses and then it’s.

Drew Mollo [00:52:26]: He chose poorly, you know.

Archie in Hell and Why Archie Horror Still Works

Tyler Crook [00:52:31]: Yeah. I can’t get into the. The story.

Drew Mollo [00:52:33]: Oh, yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:52:33]: But, but yeah, there’s a lot of fun. Like, it’s really fun that the, the Archie comics guys let.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:52:42]: I was gonna say.

Drew Mollo [00:52:43]: Yeah,

Tyler Crook [00:52:46]: there’s the Archie and Punisher books a couple years ago.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:52:49]: Yeah, I got those.

Drew Mollo [00:52:51]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:52:51]: And then the afterlife with Archie was really fun too.

Drew Mollo [00:52:54]: Yeah.

Mahanna Jade [00:52:55]: Yes.

Drew Mollo [00:52:57]: Well, it’ll never ever be picked up again. It’s just. It’s been too long. It’s just. It’s just one of those where by now it’s just a pipe dream. It’s just a. Will it happen? Not in my lifetime, but maybe

Kari Sanders [00:53:14]: gonna segue again real quick since we pretty much cover what you can there being a writer and author. Jesus, Carrie, why can’t you talk? I didn’t drink anything, so. Yeah, no. Lonesome Hunters, which you both wrote and Dr. We put stuff up on Reddit and I had just a couple of things from Reddit for you over on the manual verse. First of all, tape ho. I’m sorry, the comment there was seriously, please think of Europeans and don’t cast it too late. But we’re working across four time zones here right now just to get it going.

Kari Sanders [00:53:52]: So terribly sorry about that. But Greendum, I was just wondering when or if the Lonesome Hunters was returning.

Will The Lonesome Hunters Return?

I’m desperate to finish that story.

Tyler Crook, 00:54:02

Tyler Crook [00:54:02]: So right now I don’t have solid plans for it to return, although I am working very hard to get those. Get some plans going for it. I’m desperate to. To get. To finish that story. And the real challenge is that it doesn’t look like Dark Horse wants to do any more of them, so I have to find another home for him. And then that and then also means, like, I have to figure out how to approach sort of a. A relaunch or like, what.

Tyler Crook [00:54:35]: What. It’s what it’s going to be. So the, the bad news is that there’s nothing concrete to say yet, but the good news is it is something that I’m. I’m very hopeful that I can finish eventually, but I think it’s probably going to be a couple more years before I can actually get back to it.

Mahanna Jade [00:54:55]: It.

Kari Sanders [00:54:56]: Okay.

Drew Mollo [00:54:56]: So

Kari Sanders [00:54:58]: just, just, just be patient, you know?

Drew Mollo [00:55:02]: Let them hunt.

Kari Sanders [00:55:03]: Would web tune work?

Mahanna Jade [00:55:07]: I see.

Kari Sanders [00:55:08]: I just.

Tyler Crook [00:55:08]: I don’t know enough about, like, I don’t read enough web tunes to feel like I could do that effectively. Like, it. It’s because it is A very different kind of comic book storytelling medium.

Kari Sanders [00:55:20]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [00:55:21]: See, the infinite skull is, is different.

Drew Mollo [00:55:23]: See, here’s what I want. I would love if I see like, oh, there’s a Ghostbuster comic. It’s, oh, Tyler Cook. I’m like, oh, this is going to be terrifying. And I, I, I’ve already figured that the, the one character who I feel I would love to see you draw because it would just be stupe defying is if you did the real Ghostbusters version of the Boogeyman. Just, you know, I don’t, I don’t know. Again, just big scary, terrifying voiced by Frank Welker. Just nightmare fuel.

Drew Mollo [00:55:54]: So point is, you would love this. So like, literally. But one of those, like, well, I’m not going to sleep now because Tyler just stoked that drama. So. Okay, cool. So we’re gonna do the Freddy Rules. So a lot of coffee, no sleep, a lot of coffee. But I mean, that would be rad.

Drew Mollo [00:56:17]: I mean, again, you got to do the, the COVID which was just dope as hell, but man, if there’s ever more Ghostbuster work, I’d be like, I know him. He was been on my show and I know this guy.

Mahanna Jade [00:56:28]: Carrie knows him.

Drew Mollo [00:56:30]: She’s on every Friday.

Tyler Crook [00:56:31]: Yeah,

Kari Sanders [00:56:34]: yeah, we, I, I know that Kyle Starks ran into the same thing with our course with Where Monsters Live or Liar Live.

Drew Mollo [00:56:42]: Drew Lie.

Kari Sanders [00:56:44]: I just got it. But so he, he was able to kickstart, but it was only for issues that he was doing, you know, so it was easy to get through and I, the, the PDF version just came out. For those of you that sponsor that kickstarter, check your messages. That’ll be coming up. But I’m assuming with Lonesome Hunters, you want to do a little bit more than just four issues to.

Tyler Crook [00:57:04]: I def, Like, I could do it in four issues, but it would probably feel so abbreviated to be like, really disappointing. Like, I feel like. Yeah, I definitely would like to do, do a lot more than that. Like the, the, the outline that I had for it was going to be basically six trades.

Drew Mollo [00:57:23]: Wow.

Tyler Crook [00:57:24]: And we’ve gotten two in. So like, there’s, we’re not halfway through with that story yet.

Kari Sanders [00:57:30]: Yes, we, we, we will, we will certainly wait so that we can get the full story rather than getting the. And here you go. That’s, that, that, that’s just, you know, I’ll write in the end what the rest of it was going to be. So you can like, think about it. But yeah, you don’t want to have that kind of thing. Going on.

Drew Mollo [00:57:48]: Yes.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:57:49]: Don’t. Don’t Game of Thrones me for the rest of my life.

Drew Mollo [00:57:56]: Or don’t. Or don’t. Lord of the Rings, where you got the multiple endings. Like one ending, Tyler. Not seven different endings. Choose your own adventures.

Tyler Crook [00:58:07]: Do. Do different endings.

Drew Mollo [00:58:10]: Listen, you could. Listen, you could do the clue man. You could do the clue version. I was like, all right, well, this book, that’s how that ends. This book, that’s how it ends. Oh, look, Tim Curry,

Leo Pond [00:58:20]: you know, I have a conspiracy theory about George R.R. martin.

Drew Mollo [00:58:24]: Oh, no.

Leo Pond [00:58:26]: That he finished the book already and it won’t be released until he dies, so he doesn’t have to get any criticism about it.

Drew Mollo [00:58:33]: That would be the ultimate.

Jar Jar Jeremy [00:58:36]: I don’t care.

Drew Mollo [00:58:37]: That would be the. That would be the ultimate twist. Even Shyamalan would be like,

Kari Sanders [00:58:47]: Don’t. Rosanna.

Drew Mollo [00:58:48]: Yes. Don’t. No, no, no. Take that one step further. Don’t. Saint Elsewhere. It. It was all a dream.

Tyler Crook [00:58:57]: Oh, that’s the only good one of those. Was the Bob Newhart show.

Drew Mollo [00:59:01]: Yes.

Kari Sanders [00:59:02]: Love that one. Yes.

Mahanna Jade [00:59:03]: Yes.

Kari Sanders [00:59:06]: They had to sneak her on set, and nobody knew she was there until the very thing. Like, she’s, like, hiding out.

Mahanna Jade [00:59:15]: So that reaction was genuine. It was hilarious.

Kari Sanders [00:59:18]: Yeah. Everybody was just like, oh, my God.

Mahanna Jade [00:59:22]: And then they.

Leo Pond [00:59:26]: Then they did that same thing for Breaking Bad.

Drew Mollo [00:59:32]: No, no, Carrie. The point of Lost is if you answer something, you get three more questions. So no matter what, you’re just like, what? I just wanted to know what the. With this island about.

Mahanna Jade [00:59:45]: I figured it out, but I’m like, I figured out kind of early on, they’re all dead.

Tyler Crook [00:59:51]: Yeah.

Mahanna Jade [00:59:52]: Yeah. Early on.

Drew Mollo [00:59:57]: This is. This is like. It’s like Family Guy when it’s.

Mahanna Jade [01:00:00]: It’s like almost like a purgatory. I feel like that.

Drew Mollo [01:00:03]: Yeah, it’s like jar. It’s like Family Guy. You know that skit where his Brian accuses Peter of re taping over the ending of movies, but it was his sled. It was a sled. I saved you two. Two hours. You’re welcome.

Mahanna Jade [01:00:20]: You know, out of this conversation. Anyway, literally, if anyone heard this without context, you’re talking about. I’m going on about Purgatory juice over there on about. It was a sled.

Drew Mollo [01:00:34]: Okay, mj, this is called ADD.

Tyler Crook [01:00:43]: See that? There was a thing on social media a couple years ago where somebody had edited the end of Toy Story. I think it was Toy Story 3. The one, like, the movie where they were, like, gonna go into the incinerator.

Drew Mollo [01:00:54]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [01:00:55]: And somebody had done an edit where it Ended where they were, like, about to fall in the incinerator, and then it faded to black, and then the credits came up, and then that was the movie that they watched with their parents, and the mom, like, lost their. Over it. They were like, oh, my. This can’t be the end that way. Of course. Because it wasn’t, but.

Drew Mollo [01:01:15]: No, I know.

Tyler Crook [01:01:16]: But it made for a very poignant end.

Drew Mollo [01:01:18]: Good.

Kari Sanders [01:01:18]: My. My aunt. My aunt when she was in elementary school and back when they called it elementary school, they. They read Charlotte’s Web live in class, you know, obviously live. But then they had the show, and the teacher didn’t tell the correct ending to the book. So my grandma got to deal with her daughter having, like, an emotional breakdown at home because the teacher lied to her. And she watched the movie and was just like, oh, my God.

Drew Mollo [01:01:50]: You know? Oh, my God.

Mahanna Jade [01:01:52]: So she totally Phoebe’d it.

Drew Mollo [01:01:55]: Okay. I was just about to say that I was just.

Mahanna Jade [01:01:57]: The episode of old. You know, she had never written all that. Phoebe had never seen. Seen the ending of Old Yellow because her mom did the same. Her mom would always turn it off. So Phoebe had no idea how Old Yeller ends.

Tyler Crook [01:02:13]: Oh, my gosh.

Drew Mollo [01:02:15]: And then she watches all these other things, which Charlotte Webb is included in there. Just like. And Charlotte dies at the end. Yes.

Mahanna Jade [01:02:24]: Yeah, that’s. Yeah, it’s. That’s what kicked off that hood rabbit whole thing. Like, oh, yeah, they mentioned Charlotte’s Web in that. And I’m like, come on, guys. That’s hilarious.

Drew Mollo [01:02:32]: Absolutely.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:02:34]: Kids movies are brutal.

Drew Mollo [01:02:37]: Yeah, absolutely.

Kari Sanders [01:02:39]: So what else do you have? What else do you have going on right now? I mean, you got the. You got the comics. Got the Archie in hell. You got. Do you have any conventions or anything coming up or.

Tyler Crook [01:02:48]: I may be going. We’re working on seeing if we can make a plan to go to San Diego this year.

Drew Mollo [01:02:55]: Nice.

Tyler Crook [01:02:55]: But that’s not. Not. Not for sure yet. And then. And so that’s all I. All I possibly have planned for conventions. I also. I’m also working on a book right now that I’m writing.

Tyler Crook [01:03:10]: Actually. I’m working on two books that I’m writing. One of them I can’t talk about just yet, but it probably won’t be out till late next year. A horror. It’s like a horror thing that I’m writing. And then another very talented artist is. Is drawing it. And then I’m writing a book right now that is also.

Tyler Crook [01:03:30]: It’s an adaption of a history book.

Drew Mollo [01:03:33]: Sweet.

Tyler Crook [01:03:34]: Called the Temecula Massacre. And It’s. It’s basically just a graphic novel adaption of, like I said, a history book that’s an account of the massacre of the. A group of Temecula Indians that occurred during the Mexican American War in the. In the 1840s.

Drew Mollo [01:03:55]: Oh.

Tyler Crook [01:03:56]: And it’s very, very interesting. I actually, I grew up in Temecula in my, like, my teen years was spent there. And a very good friend of mine works for the Pachanga Indian tribe there in Temecula. Or I guess it’s the Pachanga Band of Indians.

Drew Mollo [01:04:16]: Right.

Tyler Crook [01:04:16]: And they. And she’s a historian for him, and so she actually wrote the book. And so I got. And she. She reached out to me and was like, do you want to do this? And I was like, yeah, yeah. And Jeff McCumbsey is. Is the artist on that, and he’s doing an incredible job.

Drew Mollo [01:04:37]: Oh, nice.

Tyler Crook [01:04:39]: And we don’t have a very good plan for when that’s coming out, but. But hopefully be available to everybody when it does come out.

Kari Sanders [01:04:47]: Dylan would like to know what the horror is. It a Godzilla horror. We forced this, man. Well, we don’t force him. He is kind enough to bend to our. Would you make another dinosaur? Would you please draw guns? We have another dinosaur. You know what would be really cool in that picture? A dinosaur Godzilla Happens a lot on the live stream.

Tyler Crook [01:05:10]: I pop in and I’m like. Because my one rule with the live stream is that it has to be low effort for me. Like, I can’t because it’s called the comic book Cooldown for a reason. It’s, like, for me to, like, cool down at the end of the day, hang out with friends, and, like, just draw something for fun. And so, like, if it ends up being too much work on the. On the front end, like, it wouldn’t be. It wouldn’t be a cooldown anymore. So it’s so.

Tyler Crook [01:05:38]: So half the time I show up, turn on the live stream camera, and, like, I don’t know what to draw tonight. And 90 of the time, it’s like, dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosaur.

Drew Mollo [01:05:50]: You know what?

Tyler Crook [01:05:50]: We’ve been doing a lot of dinosaurs.

Mahanna Jade [01:05:53]: Have you done a reptile?

Drew Mollo [01:05:55]: Yeah. There you go. Reptar. You could draw a. You could draw a dinosaur with freaking laser beams on it.

Tyler Crook [01:06:02]: Okay, well, I did do a Godzilla not long ago, but he was the. If you. I don’t know if you guys have ever seen this, but there was a really cool ad campaign for Xerox that had Godzilla in it, and it was like, Godzilla doing, like, making copies.

Drew Mollo [01:06:21]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [01:06:21]: So I did a version of that Godzilla, like, getting coffee in the break room.

Kari Sanders [01:06:26]: I have a picture of that somewhere. I saved it, but I can’t find it.

Tyler Crook [01:06:33]: His. His mug actually said I Godzilla footprint Tokyo.

Drew Mollo [01:06:42]: Oh, my God.

Tyler Crook [01:06:43]: Pretty good. Pretty good idea.

Drew Mollo [01:06:44]: Nicely done. Toho approves.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:06:48]: I. I would be in your. Your cool down every week just being like, Jar Jar Binks as he man. Jar Jar Binks as this. Jar Jar this.

Drew Mollo [01:06:57]: I. And I would just.

Mahanna Jade [01:06:58]: Yeah, that would be bad too.

Drew Mollo [01:06:59]: Yeah, I would just throw out ghosts. I’m like, low effort draw Carrie as a ghost. A lot of hair, A lot of wisps. Lot of hair, lot of hair, lot of wisps. You know, Then you throw out those obscure characters, like, you know, Willow Wisp from Spider Man. Who is that? I don’t know. Looking it up, you know. So I actually did have one.

Drew Mollo [01:07:25]: One question for you, Tyler. So in terms of. Is there any project like that idea, like if. If any publisher was like, oh, you. You like, okay, you can do this. Or you pitch to. Like, is there like the dream project that if they said you could do this, you’d be like, whatever I’m doing is on hold. This is.

Drew Mollo [01:07:42]: This is my life now. Like, like, honey, tend the chickens. I’ll be in the basement.

The Books He’d Fight to Make and His Dream Projects

Tyler Crook [01:07:49]: I don’t know if. I don’t know if there is a project like that. Like, I do definitely. Like, I have a. I have Lonesome Hunters is something that I care very deeply about that, like, I would. I would go to great lengths to make that book happen. I have some other, like, pitches that I’ve put together that I’m very excited about trying to get done in the coming years, but there’s not like, I guess the closest. If they came to me and asked me to do a Swamp Thing book, I would.

Tyler Crook [01:08:25]: Yo, I would put that on the calendar.

Drew Mollo [01:08:28]: Do it.

Tyler Crook [01:08:29]: And the same. Same is true for Commandee. Like, if I could do a Commandee book.

Drew Mollo [01:08:34]: Yo, come on, D. Last boy on Earth.

Tyler Crook [01:08:38]: Yeah.

Kari Sanders [01:08:38]: Oh, I. I found. I. I’d copy pasted this off of your live stream to show to them.

Drew Mollo [01:08:44]: Yeah. That’s so good.

Kari Sanders [01:08:51]: Oh, my glorious.

Tyler Crook [01:08:53]: He’s like, absolutely. Like, please, Carl, don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee.

Mahanna Jade [01:09:01]: That looks like that was me this morning. Really and truly. It was bad.

Drew Mollo [01:09:04]: Yeah. I’m sorry, mj, you need that on like, Tyler, you need to make that a shirt. Like, people would buy that. And my people, I mean, the. The goth in the corner over there.

Mahanna Jade [01:09:16]: I work with elderly dementia people and they My fun T shirts go over really well. They respond really well to them.

Drew Mollo [01:09:26]: Yeah. And respectfully, you don’t message M. Day MJ till she’s had her coffee, because that is just inviting. Just primordial fury.

Mahanna Jade [01:09:39]: Not to brag or anything, but at least six people have described me as terrifying.

Drew Mollo [01:09:45]: Yes. Not bragging at all. Thank you, mj.

Kari Sanders [01:09:49]: Something we have in common.

Tyler Crook [01:09:51]: I have done some swamp things. I’ve even done like some swamp thing oil painting on the live stream.

Drew Mollo [01:09:58]: Whoa. That must be.

Kari Sanders [01:10:02]: You should, you know, join us.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:10:04]: Friday is more.

Kari Sanders [01:10:06]: Yeah, it’s very fun. It makes my week. And then I say that, and I miss this Friday because I just fell asleep. I’ve had a lot of vacation and all this other stuff going on and I just crashed through it. But like, every Friday, it’s my. Like, everybody’s like, what are you doing on Friday? I’m going out to the. You want to go out? No, I’m going to be sitting home with my comic book pull down family and. And.

Kari Sanders [01:10:30]: And watch this wonderful gentleman make some beautiful art with his awesome wife and cat. And. And my fam

Drew Mollo [01:10:40]: is literally our Colonel Weird through podcasts. So just be. Yeah, I’m just sitting in on Tyler’s show. Yeah, I’m just gonna go to John Suntruss’s show. Yeah, I’m gonna be on our show, but then I gotta go because there’s another one. I’m just like, okay, good. Thank you for your time, Ms. Sanders.

Drew Mollo [01:10:56]: You know, Godspeed. You know, don’t lose your head.

Tyler Crook [01:10:59]: Sometimes. Sometimes I’ll watch the. Thing. I’m so bad with names sometimes.

Drew Mollo [01:11:09]: You’re doing good. As long as you remember our names, you’re good.

Kari Sanders [01:11:13]: Chris over at Comic Tropes.

Tyler Crook [01:11:14]: No, I watch Comic Stripes a lot, but Word balloon. Dang it. The. He just did Transformers.

Drew Mollo [01:11:29]: Leo. He said the T word.

Tyler Crook [01:11:33]: But who. Who?

Kari Sanders [01:11:34]: You got us near mint condition.

Tyler Crook [01:11:37]: No, not near my condition. He’s a. He’s a comic book creator. He just finished drawing and writing Transformers for a while.

Drew Mollo [01:11:47]: Darren Warren Johnson.

Leo Pond [01:11:49]: Yeah.

Tyler Crook [01:11:49]: Daniel Warren Johnson. Thank you. Dang. Sometimes names like Carrie will know from watching the stream. Sometimes names just fall out of my brain completely. So sometimes I’ll watch Daniel Warren Johnson’s live stream and I’ll see people that are, like, regulars in my chat, in his chat, and I’m always just like, hey, now, what are you doing there?

Drew Mollo [01:12:06]: Hey.

Tyler Crook [01:12:07]: To be in other people’s, like, live streams.

Drew Mollo [01:12:10]: You cheating on me with Daniel Warren Johnson? What does he have that I don’t? He has optimus prime, huh? I’ve got Hellboy.

Tyler Crook [01:12:18]: Yeah,

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:12:21]: that’s a crossover waiting to happen.

Leo Pond [01:12:25]: Oh, my God. His Transformers run was amazing.

Drew Mollo [01:12:30]: Yeah, we know if. Listen, bud, I’m working on getting him, okay? I know you’ll squeak, but I’m not.

Tyler Crook [01:12:38]: I’m not surprised that it’s good because he just loves Optimus prime probably more than any other living human.

Leo Pond [01:12:47]: Yeah. It just has so much heart. And, you know, I, I believe he. He did the rn. He wrote it as well, so he did double duty, but, yeah, it’s freaking amazing.

Tyler Crook [01:13:00]: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I loved his Do a Power Bomb so much. That was. That was one of those books that really surprised me when I started reading it. I was sort of like, I don’t know if I’m into wrestling enough to, like, read this. But then by the end, I was just like, this is amazing. This is such a great book.

Drew Mollo [01:13:21]: Speaking of, to two things. One, for Daniel Warren Johnson, the Moon is Trying to Kill Us is a fantastic book that he did with Riley Rossimo. It’s such a great book, Carrie. I, I, I know you were reading it at one point.

Kari Sanders [01:13:37]: Yeah, I.

Tyler Crook [01:13:38]: That was like. They were both drawing those, right? And like.

Drew Mollo [01:13:42]: Well, no, when he was writing it, Riley was the artist, but I’m fairly certain there and then. Oh, God. I just had something, and it’s gone. God damn it.

Tyler Crook [01:13:53]: It wasn’t. It wasn’t. The moon is killing us. It was like the moon is following us or something.

Drew Mollo [01:13:57]: Yeah. So, yeah, something like that. And it was fantastic. It was just.

Kari Sanders [01:14:01]: Yeah. You can’t ask me to tell you what it was about right now, though, because that was about.

Drew Mollo [01:14:07]: It was about a girl in a coma and her parents go into her mind.

Kari Sanders [01:14:10]: I was gonna say it was about a. It was about a thousand issues of things that I have read ago, so I brush back up.

Drew Mollo [01:14:18]: That was a long time ago.

Leo Pond [01:14:22]: I, I was going to mention this earlier when we were talking about hell, but I don’t know if any of you watch Invincible.

Drew Mollo [01:14:30]: No spoilers.

Leo Pond [01:14:32]: Well, all I’m gonna say is Robert Kirkman wrote an original story for Invincible that wasn’t in the books for the Hell episode. Invincible. Invincible. Yeah. Okay. It’s definitely a different take on Hell. And, yeah, it was really well done.

Drew Mollo [01:14:50]: I said, Kirkman’s a great writer.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:14:52]: He just.

Kari Sanders [01:14:53]: So.

Drew Mollo [01:14:54]: Yeah, okay.

Kari Sanders [01:14:56]: So back I wanted to bring up. Just because we have to mention, I didn’t carry it out of my closet today because I didn’t want to injure myself, but the. The giant Harrow County Shield of truth that I can hide behind or beat someone to death with. It’s a multi purpose. Yeah, they, they did that one and then they released the one without the slip case, which I was like, okay, interesting order. But are we still like everybody’s going to constantly be asking, so I’m just asking on behalf of everyone. Is there still more Harrow county left to come? We, we do have colon on next week, I believe. And so we’re, we’re going to be asking him as well.

Kari Sanders [01:15:41]: But am I going to be able to add to my like arsenal eventually or.

Tyler Crook [01:15:49]: Nothing. Nothing that I can talk about yet.

Drew Mollo [01:15:52]: Oh, okay.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:15:53]: Nothing that he can talk.

What He Can and Can’t Say About More Harrow County

Tyler Crook [01:15:55]: Oh, I could say that I’m. I’m not going to be drawing any more Harrow County. Oh. In the foreseeable future, like there might be more, there may be more tales of Harrow county, stuff like that, but again, there’s nothing, there’s nothing concrete. It’s something that comes up regularly though, that we’re trying to figure out.

Kari Sanders [01:16:14]: Okay, okay. And, and if I ship that massive thing to you, will you sign it?

Tyler Crook [01:16:23]: I will sign it, but. Oh man, there’s got to be an easier way.

Drew Mollo [01:16:29]: Carrie, you’re gonna pay a lot of money.

Kari Sanders [01:16:32]: Well, I mean, I could just fly to Oregon. It might be cheaper.

Tyler Crook [01:16:36]: Yeah, it probably would be.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:16:37]: Yeah.

Drew Mollo [01:16:38]: Because Carrie, that, like I said, that’s a God killer right there. That’s a hate killer right there.

Leo Pond [01:16:44]: You know what I mean?

Kari Sanders [01:16:45]: Yeah. Colin’s face when I carried that into Planet Comic Con, Casey. And I like, I have this back pace and that’s all that was in it. I’m just sweating and I get there and he’s like, are you okay? I’m like, hold on. Thump. And he’s like, you brought that, huh? And then he ends up like, he comes to Omaha to do stuff. I’m like, I didn’t have to carry this all the way through,

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:17:14]: Joy.

Mahanna Jade [01:17:15]: It’s done things like that before, honestly.

Kari Sanders [01:17:18]: Yeah, it’s just such a fun book, so.

Drew Mollo [01:17:21]: Oh yeah, yeah.

Kari Sanders [01:17:23]: Love everything.

Tyler Crook [01:17:24]: I’ve signed a couple of those at signings that people have carried there and it always is very, very impressive because I would not carry that book out of my house ever again.

Kari Sanders [01:17:37]: You got to be very careful. It has to come on carry on with you on the plane as well because you don’t trust it to not get dinged up and lug it. Like you can pack everything else, but you can’t actually unless you put like 10 tons of bubble wrap around it. And sure, that that doesn’t gonna get damaged And.

Drew Mollo [01:17:55]: And then, Carrie, you break the. The tray on the air, on the airplane because it’s so goddamn heavy. So literally just.

Tyler Crook [01:18:06]: Man, if. If the person next to me on an airplane pulled that book out, I would tell them to please put that away.

Kari Sanders [01:18:12]: Yeah,

Drew Mollo [01:18:16]: yeah, that’s. That’s one of those. No, no, no, no.

Tyler Crook [01:18:22]: Handle this person.

Drew Mollo [01:18:24]: Yeah, yeah. This is a. This is a Necronomicon situation. You gotta tell them to put it on.

Kari Sanders [01:18:33]: He made me hold a skinned boy picture.

Drew Mollo [01:18:38]: Yeah, it’s just. Carrie, that’s one of those things that you do this. You do it. You’re like, oh, this is that. And I’m like, yes, Carrie, but what will the. The normies think when they see that? You know, they’re like. And then you’re like, I don’t care. And I’m like, yes, but what will the authorities think?

Kari Sanders [01:18:56]: Who has had Somebody sign over 100 comic books at a time? I. I just asked for one signature.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:19:03]: You know?

Drew Mollo [01:19:03]: You know what? You know what?

Kari Sanders [01:19:05]: Which one?

Drew Mollo [01:19:06]: You know what? I’m not on trial here. Okay? And we’re wrapping up with Tyler. Don’t embarrass me. Don’t talk to me like this. Put that squirrel away. Jar. You’re letting this happen, Leo. Mj, you’re good, you know, okay, so whatever.

Drew Mollo [01:19:21]: So, guys, I think we should definitely start wrapping it up. So do you guys have any other questions for. For our lovely guests?

Kari Sanders [01:19:30]: Anybody out there in. In comment land? Do you have anything you’d like to ask Tyler? If you don’t want to, just wait till Friday.

Drew Mollo [01:19:38]: Ground control, it’s Tyler Crook.

Leo Pond [01:19:43]: So, Tyler, what. When you’re after your cooldown on Fridays, you know what, what. What do you do on the weekends?

Drew Mollo [01:19:52]: What do you dork out about besides chickens?

Tyler Crook [01:19:59]: The last, last long period, it feels like every weekend I’m. I’m working. I’m almost. I’m almost out of that phase, though. I think as soon as I sort of get into the flow of Archie and hell, I think I’ll finally be working. I’ll have my free weekends, but I do a lot of music stuff for fun. I don’t work in the yard as much as I should. I live next door to my parents and my dad is a big.

Tyler Crook [01:20:27]: Loves to work in the yard, so I sort of just let him do that. Him and Ma do that a lot. Yeah, you know, I. I usually, like when I have time off, if I’ll. I’ll goof around with music a lot or I just sort of like fall on the couch and. And and that’s it.

Kari Sanders [01:20:52]: Big punk fan here. Oh, Stefan would like to know, is that an L.L. bean shirt?

Tyler Crook [01:20:59]: I don’t think so. My sister gave this to me recently, but I don’t remember what brand it is.

Kari Sanders [01:21:06]: We won’t ask you to strip.

Drew Mollo [01:21:10]: It’s not Splash Pages After Dark.

Mahanna Jade [01:21:14]: Yes, he’s.

Kari Sanders [01:21:15]: He’s not Dean Haspiel who strips all the time, but.

Tyler Crook [01:21:23]: Yeah.

Kari Sanders [01:21:24]: So you’re just, like, interviews? Yeah.

Drew Mollo [01:21:28]: Yeah.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:21:29]: Okay.

Drew Mollo [01:21:31]: Carrie, do you want to sign us off?

Kari Sanders [01:21:34]: Well, look, we could let Leo do it. We’ll do it the normal way, but. Okay, start with Tyler and see, like, where.

Leo Pond [01:21:41]: Yeah, totally. Yeah. So, Tyler, where do you like people interacting with you on the socials?

Tyler Crook [01:21:47]: I’m on Blue sky and I have my YouTube channel where I do my live stream, and that’s really it. I still have an Instagram account, but I don’t check it often enough for it to be, like, worthwhile. Yeah, that’s kind of it. And you can sign up for my newsletter, too, through my website@mrkrook.com and then you can hear about when I have new original art up for sale or when I have new books coming out.

Leo Pond [01:22:18]: Nice. Are you doing that newsletter through Substack or something else?

Tyler Crook [01:22:22]: No, it’s just through my website. It’s just through Squarespace.

Leo Pond [01:22:25]: Awesome. Well, I want to thank everybody for watching this fine evening. Definitely go to our website, splash pagescompan.com you can find all the information for Tyler there, including his link to his website, YouTube, Blue sky and whatnot. And we’ll kick it on over to mj.

Drew Mollo [01:22:44]: Hi, guys.

Mahanna Jade [01:22:45]: Yeah, so I can be found. Easiest place to find me is Instagram at the Cheerygoth C H E E R Y Golf. And you’ll be finding some more of my cosplay things, my shenanigans. And the convention being heading to, like, next week, I’ll be at Pine State Expo.

Leo Pond [01:23:05]: Awesome.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:23:08]: Hey, everybody. Come join me on Twitch as I try to take over the world on Fortnite or Diablo.

Drew Mollo [01:23:18]: Yes, Diablo 4. Yeah.

Jar Jar Jeremy [01:23:22]: Game is great. That’s it. That’s all I got.

Tyler Crook [01:23:28]: Hey.

Kari Sanders [01:23:29]: Yeah, Dylan. Well, you know, try. Try them on a Friday. Maybe he’ll. Maybe you’ll be loosened up a little bit then. And we love you, too. Now, if you want to find me, guys, I have all the things, but I don’t use any of them except for Facebook. Really? I just follow other people on the other stuff.

Kari Sanders [01:23:46]: So go to Facebook, Carrie Sanders. It has links to my author page on Amazon. That. Which is the evil place I know everything that it’s like, I’m on Facebook, which is evil, I go to Amazon, which is bad and stuff, but that’s where you find me. Because I don’t give a shit. I’m old and I can’t adapt to this newfangled technology. But if you see a judgmental crow, you have found me. And that is how you can reach me.

Leo Pond [01:24:12]: Awesome.

Drew Mollo [01:24:14]: Mr. Drew Ebriddle. Sorry, I couldn’t help it. Hey everybody, thank you so much for joining us on Splash Pages. If you haven’t already, scratch that itch of how you can follow us. Make sure you like and subscribe our face, our fate. Or like and subscribe our YouTube where we post all our links, all of our vids, everything. Because we’ve got a lot going on.

Drew Mollo [01:24:41]: We’re already starting to plan out the second part of our year while still wrapping up our current year. Thank you, Dylan. We have a lot of great guests still planned for the rest of the month. And going into May, for instance, we have next week, we have returning again just like, just like our. Our guest tonight, his. His collaborator from Harrow county, the great Cullen Bunn, is going to be joining us again. We’ll be talking about a lot of his new stuff. It’s going to be awesome.

Drew Mollo [01:25:13]: Can’t wait. And if you need to get in touch with me, I said it once, I’ll say it again. There are quite a few ways, so Facebook, Instagram, ghostbusterman, 1984, blue sky. I’m sure there’s others. If you reach out, I’ll get back to you, I promise. I’m just like really tired, so like, can I

Leo Pond [01:25:37]: with that. We’ll catch you later.

Kari Sanders [01:25:39]: Bye bye, everybody.