According to the internet, Darren J. Gendron once ate a bear from the inside out. He simply walked into Mordor. He won a staring competition with a fish, fought a hydra with just one hand and some bacon, and his Kevin Bacon number is four.

Dern is the writer of Hello With Cheese and The Monster Alphabet, and he’s the designer of Scurvy Dogs and Póstumo: The Deck of the Dead.

If you come in contact with Dern in the wild, you can calm him and draw his attention with the traditional call of “Heyo dern!” Be warned that he may still be hostile to you if you are a hobo or a clown. Oddly, hobo clowns are not threatening to him.