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Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse are to bring Resident Alien to an oddment in 2026 , with One More For The Road from Dark Horse Comics
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Portsmouth Comic Con is hosting guestPeter Hoganthis weekend , across Free Comic Book Day as well , with a newResident Alienseries launching from Dark Horse , with the television receiver adaptation finally reach UK and European Netflix , we have a word in … and also see that the comic leger series would be get a finale next year withOne More For The Road . funnies and games writerDavid Bailleis organising the laughable Good Book side of Portsmouth Comic Con so he got in a few questions for us .
David Baille : It was great to seeResident Alienfinally hitting UK and European Netflix a yoke of week ago . I imagine it ’s even more exciting for you ? Are you hosting a vigil political party ?
Peter Hogan : Yes , it is exciting . What happened when the show went to Netflix in the States last year was that we suddenly gained this huge raw audience , most of whom had never even get a line of the show before . As a final result of that , the book sales rose dramatically as well . So , I ’m plain trust that happens here as well . I cogitate a mickle of hoi polloi have retrieve the show heavily to track down before now . So … I may be persuade by my kids to watch over at least the pilot once again .
David Baille : How did the original comic series first happen – what ’s the account there ? What I really need to acknowledge is – did it all start with the punning in the statute title ?
Peter Hogan : No , I ’d had the title up my arm for many , many years , but it was n’t what start out the idea . I ’d learned over the years that if you ’re a writer , it really helps to lurch task hand - in - hand with an creative person . Since I ’d worked well withSteve Parkhousein the yesteryear , I somehow persuade him to have another go . He wanted to do something involving noncitizen , so it all develop from that … and at that point I remembered that I already had this title , which fit dead .
David Baille : The first miniseries must have been a monumental achiever for Dark Horse , as the original 2012 miniseries has had six or seven sequels over the year . Was it instantly optioned by SyFy ?
Peter Hogan : No , not at all . Mike Richardson at Dark Horse precipitate in erotic love with it at first vision , and he was convert from the start that it ’d run as a TV show or a movie . He started speak to Hollywood flat away , but … it really accept over ten years to get the show off the earth . Meanwhile , Mike kept greenlighting series after series of the Quran , because he was so positive that eventually it ’d come about .
David Baille : Did you get to make a dictated visit ?
Peter Hogan : Steve did n’t go on set , but I did , and had a slap-up time . you could see the effect in the finale of Series Three , where I share a few second on - screen playacting opposite Linda Hamilton !
David Baille : I know you sour with the legend that is Steve Parkhouse antecedently at Vertigo – what is it about the team that go so well for you?Peter Hogan : I do n’t really know , except we trust each other , and respect each others skills . mostly we just exit each other alone to get on with it .
David Baille : One of my favored cartoon strip of yours isTimehouseat2000AD(in the other 90s ) . Firstly – do you remember it fondly yourself ? And how many citizenry ask you about it these day ?
Peter Hogan : Almost nobody ! No , that ’s not true … but it was quirky , and most2000ADreaders do n’t really manage for quirky … though I did have one Quaker who wanted to turn it into an opera ! I do remember it lovingly , partly because it was the first longish history that I ever attempted . Also , it had its genesis in a dream , and I conceive , ' so , that’show this storytelling matter works . '
David Baille : You were one of the first people I became cognisant of jumping from column to writing . Was that always the program , and how difficult a transition did you find it ?
Peter Hogan : It was n’t really a plan , but portion of writers that I ’d play with told me I should have a go myself … So when the editing spear come to an close , I did just that … though editing and writing are two separate science , so it took me a little while to receive my feet . Even so , whenever I see any of my really previous stuff , I ’m by and large surprised at how good it is – it ’s just the capital punishment that ’s a flake ungainly .
David Baille : Has being an X - editor program given you an armoury of silver bullets for pitching story to editors?Peter Hogan : No , not at all . Not convinced such a thing exists , either . Mostly I think it ’s just a issue of luck and timing .
David Baille : I was very worked up to get a line aboutyour new anthologyBlack Forestswith prowess from Glenn Fabry , Steve Parkhouse , Mark Stafford and David Hitchcock . How did the Kickstarter go ?
David Baille : It start well , though we did n’t really have that much material to show people . I think once it ’s finally out there , and it ’s had a follow-up or two , and people can look at the thing for themselves , then I think we should get a lot more interestingness in it .
David Baille : Will you have copies for fans at your convention appearance this year – like at Portsmouth Comic Con next week?David Baille : Yes , definitely . We ’re currently run way behind schedule , which has been ineluctable because a couple of citizenry had illnesses and other personal government issue to deal with , so I ca n’t even give you a date when we ’ll have cease copy – but when we do I ’ll be out there somewhere signing them .
David Baille : What ’s next for Peter Hogan Industries ?
Peter Hogan : Resident AlienBook Nine is calledThe Book Of Changes , and that ’ll be coming out this fall . After that there ’ll be a 26pp finale , believably next spring , which is calledOne More For The Road , and after that we ’re done . I ’m also currently trying to get a new comics series off the ground withMarc Laming . We ’ve been desire to work together for years , so hopefully this clock time it ’ll happen . And meanwhile I ’m about 90 % of the way through writing a science - fiction novel , and contrive anotherBlack Forestscollection if the first one get down well , so … I ’m keep jolly meddlesome .
Peter Hogan is known for Resident Alien , as well as write series for Vertigo , and 2000 AD and Tom Strong for Wildstorm . David Baillie is also a comics author , co - creating Red Thorn with Meghan Hetrick for Vertigo , as well as other strips for 2000 AD , Heavy Metal , Valiant and others – andaccording to this 2000AD wiki page he died of one-time long time a few years ago .
Peter Hogan and David Bailliewill both at Portsmouth Comic Con,3rd and 4th of May 2025
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