In Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire’s upcoming comic, death has been cured. Titled A.D.: After Death, it combines prose and traditional comic booking to tell a story that not only pursues the mysteries of this post-mortality world, but delves deep into the memories of protagonist Jonah to examine the ever-present fear of death back when it existed.
"When I was working on it, the story spoke to some of the stuff that's really core to what I like to write about, and some of the fears that keep me up," said writer Snyder, whose credits include Batman, American Vampire, and The Wake. "Even more than that, it was working with Jeff, realizing that he has a place that he goes to in his graphic novels that's intensely personal and meditative and exploratory. And I realized if I was working him, and we don't get many chances to do that, I wanted it to be that way too, and really go as deep and personal as I could. It's emotionally autobiographical material, and I just wanted to be as open on the page as I could."
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"When I was working on it, the story spoke to some of the stuff that's really core to what I like to write about, and some of the fears that keep me up," said writer Snyder, whose credits include Batman, American Vampire, and The Wake. "Even more than that, it was working with Jeff, realizing that he has a place that he goes to in his graphic novels that's intensely personal and meditative and exploratory. And I realized if I was working him, and we don't get many chances to do that, I wanted it to be that way too, and really go as deep and personal as I could. It's emotionally autobiographical material, and I just wanted to be as open on the page as I could."
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