Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT David Dastmalchian has combined his love of horror and comics to create his own comic book series, Count Crowley, which is distributed through Dark Horse Comics. Count Crowley follows Jerri Bartman, a journalist turned late-night horror show host in the style of Svengoolie or Elvira.
That was the premise, and then we built a world around that and I have been able to work for many years now on the book with one of the best comic book artists I think in the business right now, a guy named Lukas Ketner. I have an incredible team that we've been the same team all the way through, and I am working as we speak on where I am taking the story next, and I can't wait for people to see that.
She goes home with her tail between her legs, devastated, not willing to talk about what happened to her because she just feels so unsafe everywhere she goes, and all she's got at this point, because her parents have passed on, is her brother who's running this small station. He tries to put her on the news, she's embarrassed, he finally gets her to be the host of the late night horror show.
David Dastmalchian: For me, each project is a totally different journey and a totally different approach. If you're going to have the best collaboration with the artists that you're paired with and the colors and every member of the team, you have to be willing, in my opinion, to scrap everything you think you know about how to build story together and start over.
Knight versus Samurai sounds amazing. Talk to me about the world-building process, because you said it's a dense book. Then, man, if you love the characters, which I do, you just start writing stories about them, and you just start writing their backstories, and you start writing, "Why are they here at this moment in their journey? What do they need from this?" When Charles Ward, who's the Dragon Slayer, who is the leader of the Knights, comes face to face for the very first time with Sonata Musashi, the Tiger Lord, who's the leader of the Samurai, hopefully by the time my readers get to that...
I do want to talk about Late Night with The Devil because that film sounds incredible. It's an indie film, so we can talk about this.