According to The Hollywood Reporter, Patrick Horvath (The Pact II, The Disaster Artist) invites Che Grayson (Magic Hour, Batman: Urban Legends), James Tynion IV (The nice house on the lake, The House of Slaughter), Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls) and others to collaborate on the comic Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees turned Halloween one shot. The Halloween special will be held by IDW, an indie publisher and will be illustrated by Jared Cullum (Kodi, Wonder City) and Dave Wachter (TMNT, Venom: Black, White & Blood). The anthology will be released in stores October 7.
The original comic focused on Samantha Strong, a brown bear who is part hardware store owner and part serial killer. The comic followed a sequel novel titled Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring. A third comic that is currently being written which centers around an epilogue after Strong leaves the town Woodbrook where her murders come back to haunt her.
Horvath stated the system behind finding artists to work with, “We reached out to creators whose work I really admire and who we felt could tune into the specific wavelength of Beneath the Trees. In particular, I’ve always tried to keep some sort of balance of keeping it cute, horrific, cozy, and upsetting, and everyone onboard very much understands how to tap into that.”
Hovarth expressed THR through email, “One of the best parts about them is having a variety of different creators having fun together. It’s an exciting change of pace to open this world up for other people to step into and add their voices.”
Tynion shared his opinion on Horvath’s comics: “Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees is one of my favorite comics of the past few years, and it’s a pleasure to be invited to have a bit of gruesome fun in this killer, off-kilter world Patrick has created.”
Fleecs also expressed his own thoughts in a statement: “I was a Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees fan before almost anyone,” Fleecs said in a statement. “I read a review copy before the first issue came out and haven’t stopped loudly singing its praises since. Patrick is working in a subgenre of a subgenre. He’s taking something familiar and comforting and adding outrageous violence and pathology and creating something wholly original.”
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