Let's talk about the episode you're writing. What can we expect? You did episode 2?
Ben Edlund: In the continuity, yeah. Well, I'm not supposed to say anything...

What's the title?
Ben Edlund: It's called "Hello, Cruel World".

And, you know, I considered the end of season 6 into season 7 to be one of our most fluid... It really is, like, the show that just keeps going, you know, so at the end of season 6 obviously you have the angry, deranged god. Big problem. So the first and second episodes, there's a lot of continuity going there that we just want to be first-the-best with, you know? [Episode] 2 ... unfolds the creatures ... the nightmare that they'll have to deal with this season.

Is it a heavy episode, not one of your more comedic ones?
Ben Edlund: It's a heavy one. I mean, it has comedic pieces, and I think it's actually... season 7 will be characterized ... we'll be able to do both a little bit more, I think, fluidly because there's a natural absurdity to being on the air for seven years. And the number of times they've died, we're just -- the tone would be still dark, but I'm just finding it funnier every day. I'm like, "Really, how many times have you died?" And there's something about that that I think would be refreshing.

Like we've been using the term "B-movie" as a kind of buzzword for ... you know, the fun of the B-movie, like ... we're gonna bring more of the popcorn in for this season. Because in the sense like we've turned the apocalyptic stakes to, like, 11 many times, we'll keep doing it, but I think there's a quality that it's just gonna lend itself to a movie more into comedy this year.

I don't know if that makes sense, but I'm sticking by it.

Jim [Beaver] mentioned something about the infrastructure changing on the show for the boys. Can you elaborate on that?
Ben Edlund: Well, we've been saying that, like, basically, they do things a certain way. They have had a long history of ... they have their techniques, their methods. They know what they're doing. They know their job. They have their support network, such as it is.

Those things in their lives are going to be challenged. They're gonna find themselves kinda, in a sense running from lots of guns, because the stuff they face this season is kind of massive.

I hope this is almost like details. Anyway ... yes, ask me another one!

How many stand-alone episodes are you planning? Have you talked about that?
Ben Edlund: Probably commensurate with other seasons. I mean, that's what, like six or so? I'm not even sure. I don't know if I've ever counted how many we've done. We definitely want them. I always love that that gives us the chance to really play really strange, interesting games with the form. Yeah definitely, probably six or more.

Any specifics you care to share?
Ben Edlund: I know what I want to do. Nobody else knows this, but I know what I want to do. And I've been talking about it freely here!

I'm convinced we could -- there's gotta be a way that we can get them on a spaceship for one episode. I think that's the way to go, you know? Right now I picture it as just the continuation of the latter part of the Buck Rogers series where the Hawk lands on it. We just put them in that! We have a bunch of people who could do it -- there's gods and tricksters, there's any number of ways that they could be on a ship for an episode! They'll have little uniforms and they'll go, "Why are we here?"

What mythology are you going to be dealing with this year? You've already done Judeo-Christian and monsters. What's the new mythology?
Ben Edlund: In a way, we'll keep our ... we're still ... we're in the crumbling remnants of that Judeo-Christian thing. There's Heaven, there's a God, all those things ...

Purgatory is obviously a big part of it, and then the origin of Purgatory. I think we're doing a good job of actually taking a bunch of pieces and making out own quilts, so there'll still be Judeo-Christian aspects, and it'll still ultimately be like a post Judeo-Christian show. I think, in a way, we're taking some of the wind in the sails of the Cthulhu mythos. We're using some of that as some of our sort of street cred for some of the things we're doing.

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