What is the story going to be about in the Beasts of Burden mini-series?
JT: Each issue has a different story with a bad situation or bad creature. The first issue is the dogs visiting friends and it starts raining frogs. And they race back to tell Ace, who we last saw was chained up in the yard from the last story we did in Dark Book of Monsters. Evan likes to do the human interaction off panel. For example, “What happens if there’s a crazy thing that happens in your yard and your house is destroyed?” Well the dog is now chained, there’s a new house, he has to heal because he was nearly killed, so Ace is still back there. The second issue called “Lost” and a mother dog needs help finding her pups because they are missing. The third issue is the Orphan, which the cat, goes looking for Dymphna which is the mystical black witch cat in the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft. He doesn’t think she died at the end of that story and goes on an adventure to find her. That one has a cast of a 1000 rats, and I’m not even exaggerating on the number [laughs]. And the fourth
