Here’s something that’s probably not a surprise: it was influenced by Murder on the Orient Express and other works of that kind. Gerblins was pretty much a dungeon crawl, but for Rockport, it was a murder mystery. In each one of the arcs in Balance they all kind of had their own kind of feel. So they show up on the train… and they then have to solve a murder mystery and find the item to stop evil and do good.Ĭlint McElroy: Not just a murder! A murder most foul. He was supposed to be on a train called the Rockport Limited and the agent has been found dead.

The three main characters, Magnus, Taako, and Merle are sent to find an item that was with one of the Bureau of Balance agents that has gone missing. Travis McElroy: I’ll do a quick synopsis for anyone that doesn’t know. We decided pretty quickly in the process that we liked the way that book one was turning out and that we would also like to make at least a second book.ĭavis: For those who may not be familiar with the series, can you talk a little bit about Murder on the Rockport Limited? I know it’s a story that has a lot of awesome action and hilarious moments, so was there anything you found particularly challenging about synthesizing all of that into the comic format?

Travis McElroy: If I remember correctly, we went into book one with the plan that there would be a book two, but with the option that if it blew up and turned out to be terrible that we could say, “You know what? We’ve got a call on the other line.” And we would just never do book two.

Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy