Building ‘House of Slaughter’: An Interview with Tate Brombal and Chris Shehan

House of Slaughter is the latest offering BOOM! Studios, set in the universe of the Eisner Award-nomiated Something is Killing the Children. Last month we got our first look at the principle characters and this time around, we had the opportunity to sit down with Tate Brombal, the writer, and Chris Shehan, the artist, about their foray into the horror universe. Black Nerd Problems: To start us off, for the readers who may be out of the loop on the lore of Something is Killing the Children, how would you explain and describe the House of Slaughter? Tate Brombal: The House of Slaughter is one of the many houses in the Order of St. George, which is this world international spanning secret society of monster hunters that track and kill the monsters that only children can see, because they are eating the children, they are killing the children. So somebody needs to take care of that. And that is what the Order of Saint George does. House of Slaughter is where Erica Slaughter was trained. She’s the main character of Something is Killing the Children. That is kind of the background, but this book focuses on Aaron Slaughter, and it’s kind of this world expanding shoot off series that can finally delve into the house itself and tell a story outside of the main plot of the main series. It really gives us a chance to explore all of the really great characters that James and Werther have come up with in the main series, as well as teller own series about another hunter, Aaron, in these …