A note to our listeners, this episode contains discussion of suicide.

Ethan Sachs lives in New York.

He writes comic books.

He's written for Marvel and for D.C.

And he's written a ton of Star Wars comics.

Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, bounty hunters, allegiance.

He recently put out a new comic that doesn't have anything to do with

Star Wars or the Avengers or Superman or anything like that. It's a lot more personal.

And he worked with a new collaborator. What is a haunted girl about?

So a haunted girl is a YAA supernatural horror story about a 16-year-old girl named Cleo who has been discharged

from the hospital after a suicide attempt, struggles with depression and is struggling to

reintegrate into school. And on top of all that, finds out that she's the only person who can stop a supernatural

apocalypse and so she has to find the perseverance the drive to work through her issues to save

everyone else but she doesn't do it alone. She has her friend. She has her

adoptive father and she has her therapist, Marcy. And so, you know, we're trying to show

that you're not alone. And at the same time, you're also more powerful than you realize.

And the story, even though it is a very fictional story, was inspired by the real-life journey of the co-writer, my daughter.

It's DePresh Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

I'm a great you're here. We live in a story-driven culture.

We devour them.

We need stories to make sense of what's happening to us, what has happened before,

what may happen in the future.

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