EJ: I loved the way the rat and the scorpion would show up at key points in the story – was it scripted that way, or is that something the artist added?
PHILIP: That was me.
I wanted to do a variation on the old “Frog and Scorpion” joke — how can you trust someone, when it’s to their advantage, if not their nature, to screw you over? Which is the situation our “heroes” are in, to a certain extent.
I also wanted a way into the “aliens” ship, and I dislike omniscient point of views. Rat and Scorpion gave the reader a specific way in, as well as having a little story of their own, to prevent those scene of John From becoming purely expositional.
