The Truely Gruesome Tales of Simon Grimsdike

I love horror movies, not slasher films, but good horror movies, Monsters, the Occult, stuff like that. Anyway, I've always wanted to do Dr.Strange, I've got tons of stories in my head for him, but nobody's askin' me to do Dr.Strange, so I figured if I can't do Dr.Strange, I'm going to do my own book w/ some of the Strange Ideas. And that's where Simon Grimsdike comes in. For some of you that read Johnny, that name might sound familiar. In one of the issues we had Dirk Squarejaw talking to a character named Dr.Grimsdike. He was going to be my Dr.Strange in the Johnnyverse (that's right, the Johnnyverse... where Johnny Raygun lives :-P ) Then the Venture Bros came on, and the character design I had for Dr.Grimsdike was pretty much the same as their Dr. Morpheus. So I was pretty bummed about that, but I knew my Grimsdike story was pretty far away in Johnny, so what the heck, let's use the name on this new project.

About 6-7 months ago I was going to work w/a friend on a horror story, figured it'd be the perfect time to use some of those Dr.Strange Ideas... well, we couldn't agree on a direction for the book, so he took his ideas, and I took mine, and we went our separate ways. Problem is I was jazzed about this again. I really really wanted to do this book now. So, I contacted my ol' writtin' pal Matt Talbot and we started bangin' our heads together on a story.

We've come up with some really cool things, enough stories that we could run for 15-20 issues just on what we have now. So... I don't know when I'm going to be done with this book, but it's the next project I'm working on (after I finish ALL the other projects I'm currently working on). I'm pretty excited, there's going to be some shocking stuff in there, some stuff that people aren't going to like, and if you're a fan of the "comedy" in Johnny, well, sorry guys, it's not going to be in this book. I really want to branch out and not be held to one style.

Anyway, hope you like the preview... nothin's in stone right now, the name, title of the book, all that.