New York Comic Con: Dezago and Rousseau Talk Tellos, The Perhapanauts and More

Last week, Todd Dezago and Craig Rousseau were preparing to leave for the New York Comic Con when Dezago began receiving more than a dozen large boxes at his Upstate New York home. Unexpectedly, it was Tellos Collosal Volume 2, a long-delayed hardcover collecting a handful of stories written by Dezago and drawn by other artists, set in the world of Tellos, the creator-owned series Dezago invented with the help of his friend and longtime collaborator, the late Mike Wieringo.Rousseau was one of the artists in the collection, marking one of his earliest collaborations with Dezago, the writer with whom he would go on to create The Perhapanauts.That critically-acclaimed, creator-owned series began as a pair of miniseries at Dark Horse and then evolved into a full-fledged ongoing at Image Comics before scheduling conflicts forced it off the rails.It’s been a long time since the last monthly issue of The Perhapanauts was released, and in the meantime they’ve had a Halloween-themed one-shot, another that failed to take off, and both Tellos and The Perhapanauts almost made it to production as motion comics before the whole thing fell apart.It’ll be with a considerable exhalation of breath, then, that the creators see the release on November 7 of The Perhapanauts: Danger Down Under #1, the first of a five-issue miniseries that sees the oddball teaming of paranormal investigators facing an all-new threat while working with their Australian counterparts in an unfamiliar headquarters. With a variant cover on the series’ first issue by Thanos creator Jim Starlin, the series will kick off as a monthly again, with Rousseau on art chores but Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope standout Eric Henson drawing backup features. Dezago says that they’ve been keeping in touch with the old readership while cultivating new fans all this time and that he feels pretty good that Danger Down Under might–gasp!–actually make money.Dezago and Rousseau joined ComicBook.com at the New York Comic Con to discuss their numerous projects and look forward to the first new Perhapanauts in years.So it’s been a while–but you guys have new Perhapanauts out, which always excites me!Craig Rousseau: Yes we do!And you’ve got an ashcan here at New York Comic Con, but for those who don’t have access to that, what’s coming next?