I saw these comics both back-to-back in the Boston Globe one day in September and then the day thereafter.

Opus has since gone on to his ultimate reward (albeit Goodnight, Moon). While I am no longer reading the comics section of the newspapers daily, I have to ask: Is there a trend or sub-genre of Afterlife comics suddenly emerging? And, if so, why?

I really am hoping for the best here…but does anyone else see an eerie, foreboding similarity?

Does Tim Curry do a horrible New Yawk accent in it, too?

Before it went kaput, Marv and I did an interview for Infuze magazine…which ultimately never saw the light of day.

But, with Archaia gearing back up and Some New Kind of Slaughter set to complete its run, I’m really pleased that it’s finally surfacing over at the ComicBookJesus blog. (Don’t ask me about the name; I’m all about the press itself.)

Go and read such erudite things as:

I became interested in Noah the same way I became interested in the Pharaoh for The Lone and Level Sands. I mean, it really fascinates me how much people, both secular and religious, think they remember about biblical characters that just isn’t there in the text. There’s so much wiggle room, so much gray area, and exegetes over the centuries have, with good intentions, spun out a number of character interpretations. None, as far as I could find, looked to fill Noah’s Iserian “gaps” (check out that hard-core scholarly terminology!) in terms of other cultures’ Floods. So, I had a great angle at which to approach the research.

**Said in a Robert Shaw/Doyle Lonnegan accent from The Sting:**

“Y’fallah?”

First Peter Rios. Then Heidi MacDonald. Back over to Peter. Followed by Newsarama. Then to Heidi’s The Beat.

You can be I’m following this very, very closely. And, like Henry Gondorff, close to the vest. (Still miss you, Paul.)

EDIT: Maybe I’m more like Johnny Hooker, in that I did feel compelled to say something, namely a brief defense of ASP to Heidi. In the piece, though, I do inadvertently perpetuate the misimpression that the Archaia deal is tied to DDP rather than Kunoichi. Mea culpa.
All I’m saying is: Marv Mann and I were offered solid, fair contracts, and we signed them. That’s that.

In closing: Who was Peter’s tipper? And why is he/she playing a grumpy Deep Throat? (Different Redford movie.)

More links: Even more from Peter and CBR.