Videos by ComicBook.com
With a TV series in development and Moore’s original concept for the series entering into its third act, it’s beginning to be “anything goes” time in the town of Manson, where Rachel, her best friend Jett (who, coincidentally, was her boyfriend in another life) and their strange little group of friends and foes have been living variations on the same lives for centuries, preparing for the day when a demon called Malus would make his move.
Well, this month it happened…and Terry Moore sat down with ComicBook.com to talk about it.
Remember that our interviews are SPOILER-FILLED. If you haven’t yet, please buy a copy of Rachel Rising #20 and read along with us.
ComicBook.com: You know, your Jack the Ripper poem sounds suspiciously like the Ten Little Butterflies book my toddler loves. And now that’s ruined.Terry Moore: It’s the dark side of The Butterfly Effect.ComicBook.com: Is it intentional that he plume of smoke winding up around the cross in that first sequence looks very snake-like?Moore: Yes. The serpentine evil slithering past the icon of good.ComicBook.com: Is there a bit of a struggle here going on between the priest’s feeling that he’s the steward of this tradition versus being the servant of whatever it is that Zoe represents?Moore: Well, the priest is really Malus, and he serves only one master. Simple, right? But he wants off this planet and that’s not gonna happen until the human race is wiped out. So, he has The Plan. The problem is, Zoe doesn’t care. And I would say when Zoe slashes the priest to ribbons, that’s a bit of struggle.ComicBook.com: I can’t quite tell whether his assent to Zoe is real or not…Moore: As the old poem once said, [He] has reasons, astounding astronomers but oh delighting me.ComicBook.com: How much time has elapsed, in-story, over the course of the last few issues? Because I know it’s not so but it seems like those bodies have been lying on the floor for a very long time.Moore: It was a couple of hours.ComicBook.com: There’s a bit of recapping in the dialogue in this issue; is this the first bit of a new trade, or are you just feeling like you need to keep the readers up to speed since the revelations of last issue were so huge?
