So, Kevin Phillips sent along the first page of the two-page "Consider the Heart," which originally, in its prose form, was titled, "Lonely Old Woman Extracts Her Heart."
As I was adapting the story to script, the original title struck me as cold, unnecessarily remote, and not really supportive of the story itself, which is more about longing, past paths not taken, and some sort of final reckoning with love.
The new title, too, is reaffirmed visually (or will be) in the graphic form, and as the last story in the collection, asks the reader to return to the whole collection, to ask, what is the heart of this strange conglomeration of tales?
Maybe it's about the quiet times when we're alone with only ourselves, reckoning in truth with who we are and what we know of our own intentions.
Nothing's ever finished, not even titles. It's finished when you stop working on it. It's finished when you die.
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