Oct 23, 2026 · 45 min · 9 segments
On this Episode of Timecode: Dead Air, as we rap with H.J. Maestre, the creator of the graphic novel The […]
Jon WoodHost
And it kind of occurred to me as I was reading, I was like, oh, wait a minute, this is, it's shots.

So it's, you know, the plane hitting that and then coming out and then through that and then them looking up and there's one of like a plane crash wiping out a car and it's, you know, there's no dialogue back and forth, it's just that.

It's exactly that where all of a sudden they're on top of the World Trade Center, you know, with the weirdos coming up.

I don't know what's going on because there's obviously this whole backstory, which then you get to throughout the story as you come to it.

How did you come up with this specific story to where you actually had it like starting from where it got to where it became and then kind of also having the whole mythology, which kind of comes to, and I think it's like book seven or eight or maybe with the whole Lilith backstory.
I'm going to give you the information that you need, not necessarily in the order that it would be in the story, but rather in the way that I want to communicate it to you.
And so when you start that first chapter, you're being told exactly what you need to know.
not so much in the introduction of the main protagonist which is the weirdos yes you get enough of okay so i know these people i don't know enough about them but i know that they exist but that first chapter is really the end of who lilith is who is this person you know um and so the story then builds up from there and then eventually when you get to later chapters you realize oh wait a minute this is I know this information, but this information is being told to the characters much later on in the story.
So there is various different versions of what the Lilith wanted to use for that first story.

And it kind of occurred to me as I was reading, I was like, oh, wait a minute, this is, it's shots.

So it's, you know, the plane hitting that and then coming out and then through that and then them looking up and there's one of like a plane crash wiping out a car and it's, you know, there's no dialogue back and forth, it's just that.

It's exactly that where all of a sudden they're on top of the World Trade Center, you know, with the weirdos coming up.

I don't know what's going on because there's obviously this whole backstory, which then you get to throughout the story as you come to it.

How did you come up with this specific story to where you actually had it like starting from where it got to where it became and then kind of also having the whole mythology, which kind of comes to, and I think it's like book seven or eight or maybe with the whole Lilith backstory.
I'm going to give you the information that you need, not necessarily in the order that it would be in the story, but rather in the way that I want to communicate it to you.
And so when you start that first chapter, you're being told exactly what you need to know.
not so much in the introduction of the main protagonist which is the weirdos yes you get enough of okay so i know these people i don't know enough about them but i know that they exist but that first chapter is really the end of who lilith is who is this person you know um and so the story then builds up from there and then eventually when you get to later chapters you realize oh wait a minute this is I know this information, but this information is being told to the characters much later on in the story.
So there is various different versions of what the Lilith wanted to use for that first story.
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