


Ram: I think you said it, the only grounding element you need is eternal knowledge that everything is going to stop at some point and we're all born with that knowledge. Filipe touched on this earlier, but he didn't want to draw death as a black, goth figure as it appears often in American or European stories, and he wanted to breathe a little bit of life into it which I thought was beautiful because I think that touches a lot closer to the way people in India and Mumbai would probably think about death. If you're talking about things as big as death, mortality and immortality, then surely you must recognize those things mean very different things to people depending on where they come from. Ram: The way I look at place in storytelling, it's almost like an ever-present character in your story and the only things that make us different are - not merely in terms of geography but psycho-geographically - where we come from. What is it about that theme you find intriguing and, Filipe, how do you visually bring that to life?

I've always been intrigued by the importance of geography in your storytelling, from Paradiso at Image and These Savage Shores at Vault to your superhero stories like Swamp Thing and Catwoman moving to a new part of Gotham.
