Dale Halvorsen and I chatted withĀ Paste about the Survivors’ Club series we are working on and our writing and plotting sessions, which Dale toldĀ them are ālike creepy playtimeā.
Dale talked about Bill Sienkiewcz’s work and how his head exploded like a scene out of David CronenbergāsĀ ScannersĀ when Vertigo suggested Sienkiewiwcz do our covers, and we had to consider our survival skillsĀ when Paste asked us which horror movie we’d have the best chance of making it out of alive:
Beukes: Yikes, so many. So many of the characters are just ridiculously stupid. I remember watching Vacancy most recently and yelling at the characters the whole way through. āFor Peteās sake, wrap your hand in a towel, smash the mirror, use a broken shard as a piece of glass!ā This may come from my history of playing video games, especially the Sierra and LucasArts quest games, as well as the first person shooters. I spent my childhood looking at ordinary objects and trying to figure out how to combine them into useful tools.
Halvorsen: Iām tempted to say Left Behind (thatās a horror movie, right?) because thereās no way Iād be Raptured.
Click throughĀ for the full interview, andĀ Issue #6 will be out next month, so pre-order now from your local comic books store or you can Ā buy the whole series in digital from Comixology right now.