Halloween 2025 Special Early Look

 

It started with an ending. Unfortunate news hit the world that on January 16th, 2025, the world got a little less colorful and strange. David Lynch passed away. Nothing will ever be the same without him. I wouldn't be the same person without his work. It's influenced me and countless other artists on deeply personal levels. 

Like so many before me, I turned my grief into a drawing. I doodled my Bone Boy Billy as an agent of the FBI making a humorous recording for Diane. After that I watched a lot of Youtube videos about Lynch and his work and ended up re-watching the first season of Twin Peaks. Along with watching some of his films I'd never seen before like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead. 

I was incredibly inspired watching Lynch's work and wanting to find some way to pay homage to it. I'd already been struggling thinking of what would be the focal point for this year's Halloween special. I revisited the doodle of Agent Billy and suddenly I had it! This year we're going to do a little riff on Twin Peaks and, to an extent, Lynch's work as a whole. 

Under the working title Triple Spires I cooked up a fun little mystery. A beloved town mascot has been murdered. Leading to FBI Special Agent Billy getting called down to the small town to figure out what's going on and how it ties to other cases he's been involved with. As with last year's riff, the idea is to take the story we're paying tribute to and do our own Billy-fied spin on things. 

Currently I'm roughing out the pages for the Halloween special. I don't know how many pages it will be exactly but it's likely going to be around 10 to 15 pages. That's the most amount of pages for any comic I've made yet. It's a bit intimidating but also very fun to push myself as a storyteller. It's taken some frequent re-tooling to really get the story beats how I want them to flow. 

So I wanted to give a fun little tease/heads up about this year's special. We'll be going bigger and bolder than ever. Since there will be so many pages, instead of posting this on Halloween like last year I'm going to post the pages throughout the month of October. Taking place instead of the usual pages uploaded. 

I changed the title from Triple Spires, the name of the town, to Yellow Lights. After one of my favorite lines from Twin Peaks. "Because that's what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down, not speed up." I'm not entirely sure why but that line has always stuck with me so I thought it would make a decent title for the story. While Twin Peaks is the inspiration, the story will have it's own twists, turns and quirky weird characters. I'm very excited to share it with you this October!