Roadkill du Jour: Kevin LaPorte Talks Voodoo, Roadkill, Merle and Daryl Dixon

It’s just over a week before the Kickstarter campaign in support of Roadkill du Jour #1 draws to a close, and series writer Kevin LaPorte–also known for his work on Clown Town and The Blind Eye–joined us to talk about the series, why he loves doing it and why fans should buy a copy (unlike most Kickstarters, the first issue is already done and will be available for download as soon as the Kickstarter is completed).ComicBook.com: Between this project and Clown Town, it seems as though your work is a healthy mix of horror tropes with other genres mixed in. Is that just how your brain works, or is more a calculated decision?Kevin LaPorte: For good or ill, that’s how my brain works. The essence of a story might spring from any moment or experience or thought, but as I knead it and shape it and structure it, those horror elements inevitably seep from the crevices of my gray matter and right into the plot. For me, the horror lives, not so much in the violence and gore – those come with the territory in many straightforward action tales, too – but the real horror unfolds in the dark and twisted decisions of the characters and the unthinkable, yet perhaps relatable, motivations behind them.In Clown Town, we follow the story of one little girl on a quest to recover her best friend from a cadre of rampaging killer clowns, monsters who actually saved her friend from abusers by administering some particularly theatrical executions. The horror stems not from the child-saving vigilante angle but from how they save the kids and what they do to them to protect them from being abused again.