Eric
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James Maxey:
What inspired you to write Where Their Worm Dieth Not ? And what message did you want to get across to those who read this short story?
James Maxey
Eric, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. If I got a notification someone asked a question, I completely overlooked it. But, if you're still out there waiting for an answer, it's probably pretty obvious from the story that I'm a huge comic book geek. At one point, I was reading a Justice League story and some minor JLA member had passed away and two pages later the character was completely forgotten. But, I figured that the characters had to be pretty bored with death and dying, since pretty much ever single member of the Justice League had died at one point or another, then revived, sometimes in continuity, sometimes by reboot. And, for ever superhero death, villains perish at least a dozen times, but then they come back and everyone is, like, "Whatevs. Folks come back from death all the time. Yawn." I really wanted to write a story where the cost of not being able to die a permanent death was explored. As far as a message, I don't know. For comic book fans, the story is probably an interesting take on a common trope that hasn't been looked at with the depth it deserves. If there's a message to be extrapolated into the real world, I guess it could be summed up as "death sucks, but never dying might be worse."
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Ziggy Nixon
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James Maxey:
I've got to ask but where did you grow up? I ask for 2 reasons: 1st, we're just a few weeks apart in age and 2nd, it was with more than a little interest that you've mentioned in the Hero books places in esp; NC that I know all too well, including even the Pizza Hut on Battleground Ave. (which is now either a bank or a chinese restaurant, I forget). Oh and stuff near where my dad lived in Asheville, that was wild!
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