The Lonesome Hunters is a 2022 comicbook series by cartoonist Tyler Crook, published by Dark Horse Comics.

[2][3] The title of the series is a reference to Crook's favorite book, Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

[5] This version was ultimately abandoned, but he continued working on the project until 2019 when he locked down the story and pitched it to his editor, Daniel Chabon.

Though the initial announcement was only for a four-issue miniseries, Crook stated plans for a much longer story running twenty-four to thirty-two issues,[3][6] and says he already knows what the last few pages are going to look like.

Mecha-Sabre Gemini is an amalgam of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Robotech, and Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim.

[15] The intergenerational friendship between Howard and Lupe was a consistently praised point from reviewers, as was the way Crook portrayed the characters' emotions and different aspects of loneliness.

[18] Podcasters Brad and Lisa Gullickson praised the well-observed character beats that felt very true to life despite the story's more fantastical elements.