What haunts you? – An Interview With Rodney Barnes on His Latest Series, ‘CROWNSVILLE’

This transcript has been edited slightly for clarity and conciseness. BlackNerdProblems: Hello, welcome to our first interview in a while. My name is Mikkel Snyder. I am a staff writer with Black Nerd Problems, and I’m here with Rodney Barnes. How are you doing today, Rodney? Rodney Barnes: I’m doing well, thank you. BNP: So, we’re big fans of your work over here. This is dating me a little bit, but I was the staff writer who did the reviews on Quincredible way back when you were with Lion Forge back in the day. Rodney: Wow. BNP: Ah, I loved your take on the genre. It was a lot of fun. We also loved Killadelphia a lot when it came out. It was a darling of ours. But we’re here today to talk about Crownsville. It’s coming out with ONI Press November 5th. So, before we get into that, I guess my first question is, you’ve worn a lot of hats over the years between different mediums, genres, IP work, original stories. What keeps you coming back to comics? And what keeps you coming back to horror? Rodney: I love comics. And, you know, there’s an idealism when it comes to comics. I work a lot in television and film. And a lot of times that’s business, you know, it’s work. But when I come to comics, it feels like the closest thing to idealism, like what I wanted writing to be in my head when I was a kid and I said I wanted to be a writer. Comics kind of give me that. In regards to horror, I’ve loved horror my entire life. You know, the majority of my work in television and other m…