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Will Wulf & Batsy ever meet Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Invisible Man?

Hey thanks for your interest in my comics - and for your questions!

Yep, I've been working on some new Wulf and Batsy stories!

Over the years that I was originally doing Wulf and Batsy comics (starting in Dec.1999) and self-publishing them on my own (from roughly 2008-2017) I was bursting with ideas for stories (long, short, and in-between) about the characters.

But because I was doing the comics in spare time, on the side of my day job and married life, I really had to choose my battles about which stories to focus on, if I expected to get anything done. Every once in a while I'd find time to knock out a short story. But mostly during those years I felt a burning desire to do big, graphic-novel length stories with large casts of characters. Those felt like "the important" Wulf and Batsy stories. Each one felt like climbing Mt.Everest and each one was bigger than the one before it.

Along the way I kept getting ideas for other, shorter, simpler Wulf and Batsy stories I wanted to do, but forced myself to write them down and set them aside. I am a "one project at a time" kinda guy. I can work on comics on the side of my day job but if I tried to do 2 comics projects on the side of my day job, I would get distracted and my big graphic novel length stories (the "important" ones) would suffer or take even longer to finish.

Well, now, with those "big stories" out of the way, I finally have time to go back to all those short story ideas I loved but never had time for, and actually draw them as finished comics.

So the plan for Alterna is, to break up my big graphic novels into normal comic book sized issues and publish them as story arcs in an ongoing comic book series. And then slide these new comics (from my backlog of shorter, simpler story ideas) in between the big story arcs, as stand-alone issues.

As for difficulty of coming up with new ideas? That seems to be one problem I've never had. I can never seem to turn off the monster-comic-idea-machine in my head. If anything I come up with more ideas than I have time to draw. So I just keep writing them down and thinking, "Someday I will get to that one, too!"

Hi Bryan!

I know you'll be releasing some newer Wulf and Batsy material on Alterna, some of which has been in the vault for awhile waiting to see the light of day. My question to you is, do you find it easier or harder to come up with new Wulf and Batsy stories and ideas? I'd like to think it'd be like slipping on an old pair of comfy slippers, seeing as though you know these characters and that world inside and out. However, perhaps it's not as easy as that, and coming up with fresh ideas while keeping things familiar and consistent is more difficult than it seems.

As a new reader to Wulf and Batsy, I'm finding the history behind the series fascinating and I'm enjoying it very much. Thanks for coming to Alterna and I'm looking forward to what you've got in store for the future! Thanks!!!