PERSONAL HISTORY Trailer & 4 Months of Other Catching Up

Hello everyone!

Did I mean to go four whole months without a post? No. Is this the longest we've gone without updating the blog? Maybe. I'm not willing to check. Could someone else have stepped up to the task? Definitely. Did they? Nope. Is this getting question/answer thing getting old? Absolutely.
I'm happy to say we've had several things happen in the last few months to make this nice and jam packed. Honestly, every time we go a while without a blog update, it's because I'm waiting for the next big thing to happen so I can talk about it all. So let's just get into it. Enough horsing around. Starting with the most important stuff first.

PERSONAL HISTORY
Lots to say here. The movie is completely finished. I spent the winter editing. We had a really great set of sound mixing sessions in a nice studio setting in the early months of the year while I wrapped up the score at home. Just a very good experience in post. Since then we've just been making a ton of plans for the future of the film. Sadly, it's still too early to say anything one way or the other. It's a long process.
However, what we can do, is show off our new trailer that just dropped this week! We'll keep updates coming as they happen. ​

COMICS
I'll do this as an all encompassing thing. This year as a whole will be fairly quiet on the comic book front. We've been doing some work behind the scenes, but it'll be a slow process getting anything new out there.
We do have something happening today though! With Free Comic Book Day happening, we always like to do a little something. Check out a special edition of THE DOG PARK PODCAST with a little free something-something. This is something we're doing just for fun. Not to the caliber of a genuine Dog Park story. But I do think anyone who is interested in the history of this project will be able to appreciate it.
Other than that, we'll talk more about THE DOG PARK on the podcast. Including everything we've done so far this year. I won't waste your time making you read it now.
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As some of you may remember, we do have another comic. A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY has been on a long hiatus. It went mostly unannounced because it was totally up in the air for a bit. The long and short of it is, Beth hit some major burn out with the project after Issue 3. Getting the fourth going was a struggle, so we gave her some time off. That expanded to several months and that turned into making the mutual decision to take it off her hands and find another way to deliver it. We have two final chapters left. It's been an awkward run. The second we started off, Beth's work on LEFT HOOK prevented her from working on the next part. I think that shook things up more than we could have anticipated. It's certainly not her fault as far as keeping momentum is concerned. It was virtually impossible to do. That said, with some cool down time, I have jumped in and penciled the last two chapters. Layout is totally done and it took me about a week of focused work to get it done. This was generally the longest stage on the first three issues. That said, with other things kicking into gear, ink and color will take longer than usual. I will not promise a finish date for the final parts of the story, but it will get done eventually.
For one last piece of bad news, we teased a full length motion comic to go along with the release of the omnibus version. That's not going to happen anymore. We recorded most of the dialogue, but that was back in 2020 when we were doing everything remotely. Those who were not used to remote recording, had a lot issues. It was too much to deal with, especially since it was meant to be an easy project any way. I'll probably use some of the scenes as promotional videos, but the goal at this point is to move forward and finish the book itself. Companion material is of very low priority.
All this said, expect another long silence before we jump back in. When it's all said and done, it will be a fun read. I hope it will be worth the embarrassingly long wait.

EVERYTHING ELSE
We've had a few cool events go on this year. The main one being ICT Comic Con for this year. They moved the event a little earlier this time around and we had a great time as usual. We were also surprised to find out about an encore screening of ANOTHER DAY COLDER happening at Doc Sunback. I had gone to see Patrick Poe & Lolo Loren's new movie ALMOST, SORTA, MAYBE and found out that we were playing when our poster was featured outside. A pleasant surprise for sure.
We're helping Fritz Robinson on his latest short film, GOOD LISTENER. I served as Assistant Director and Director of Photography. Now we're handling post-production. We've got a few other collaborative projects in the works and I'm sure we'll post about those as they come to light.
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As for now, I think that's all we've got. Hopefully another update will come sooner than four months from now. No promises!

​-Tyler