Matthew Solberg

The first page of Book Two: The Menace of Mastermight progressing from thumbnail pencils to inks and color.

"You know what we're missing?", Travis asked me early on in our brainstorming for Book Two, "Villains.", he responded. And boy howdy, did we take that missing ingredient and craft nefarious and mischievous villains for Sunset, Meteor, and the whole carnival to face off against. They call themselves The Rogue Syndicate. Meet them, if you dare, in Book Two: The Menace of Mastermight. On sale now!

In early 2023, after we selected the robots for creation as physical mascots and gave them their names, I went about writing their background story. "Why will anyone care to meet a pair of robots at Fan Fusion? And what would two robots from a distant planet be doing at a pop-culture convention?" I like the trope of "two robots from a distant planet crash-land on earth", with the twist of "they crash-land in Arizona". I like the trope of "they crash-land in the 1920s". And I felt that the...