Next year, Red 5 Comics brings back the cult favorite SyFy miniseries "The Lost Room" back for another season. The original miniseries, starring Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies and Kevin Pollak, has become a critically acclaimed cult-favorite amongst fans since its initial airing. Now, "The Lost Room" creators Laura Harkcom and Christopher Leone are ready to get back into their mysterious abandoned motel room for another run.

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While Joe Miller's story may have come to a conclusion by the end of the miniseries (with Miller himself becoming an Object), the ongoing saga of the room itself still has a ways to go - and the direction that Harkcom and Leone are taking with the series tells a story that isn't really about a single person, but of an Object. "I think the most interesting part of it was actually to follow the journey of the key, not necessarily one character or another," said Leone. "Our hope in doing it was always to create new protagonists who get the key and have new problems of their own who suddenly have this very important Object and are dealing with it. What we see in the ongoing comic book is at least a new protagonist in the next book and probably further protagonists, if we get farther down the road, who get the key."

The second season will pick up a year after the events of the televised miniseries and follows the path of a hardened criminal who was framed for the one crime he didn't commit and finds the mysterious key. However, just because there's a new Motel Man doesn't mean that old familiar faces won't pop in. Making appearances will be drifter Wally Jabrowski, Howard "The Weasel" Montague, Object specialist Dr. Martin Ruber and perhaps even one incredibly familiar face. "We might even see Joe come back eventually, not as the protagonist, but as a part of this universe of 'The Lost Room,'" said Leone. "But he's vanished. When the story picks up, nobody knows what happens to him."

"Now he's an Object and people are actually calling him The Miller Object and he's got a mythology building around him as an Object now," continued Harkcom.

Much of the continuing mystery of "The Lost Room" has to do with the room itself and The Event that caused it to splinter from reality. Occurring at t 1:20:44 p.m. on May 4, 1961, very little is known about how the room actually came to be and how the Objects within were imbued with the supernatural qualities they now possess - will fans finally be able to discover what caused The Event? "The more we talk about it, the more we reveal, but it's not a simple answer," said Leone. "It's not like you're going to read it and say, 'Oh, it was aliens.' You'll learn more and more about it as we go along, but it's not like you're going to read the book and say, 'There's the magic bullet.' We're not through. There are a lot more stories we want to tell."

"There is, just so everybody knows, an answer to what The Event was and what caused this fracture in the fabric of time/space," said Harkcom. "We do have an answer for that, but it's got some finality to it, so we want to make sure we tell all the stories we want to tell in this world before we blow the big reveal of what that actually was. We have events and are orchestrating some storylines and new characters and events that will lead up to the reveal of what that is."

"Plus, I think some of the big ideas, you almost need to be walked through it step-by-step to discover the whole logic of it. It'll take some storytelling to walk through the logic that goes through it. It's not a simple answer – well, it is, but you need to lead up to it in order to explain it," continued Leone. "If I just explained it to you, it wouldn't make any sense. If we walk through the whole thing, then it's pretty bugged out."

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