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PeterAaronRose on March 14, 2007

Brent really captured my vision of the Sarah Bentley character to the tee. It was important to me that she come off as a genuine woman, free from the traditional stereotypes typically associated with female characters in comics. Our Sarah is an intelligent woman who possesses a reserved confidence and isn't concerned with superficiality.

This becomes an important counter-balance to Joshua Brand, who makes his first cameo as an adult in the second to last panel of this page, a character that almost relishes in outward confidence and masks his inner being with a number of external facades. The interactions between the two characters were particularly fun to script, and I found myself concentrating more and more on their chemistry as the book unfolded.

Most of the objects in Joshua's home are from African, East Indian, and American Indian lore. I wanted to get across a worldly knowledge of all things spiritual, as the supernatural clearly knows no bounds. I vaguely recall sending Brent some reference material, but he did a good job picking out many of the objects on his own accord. Thank god for the Internet!