Changes

Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.

I really should have remembered the mantra of the TVTropes website ''Tropes aren't bad, they are tools''. I've heard the comic book artist and writer Mike Collins give sound advice to new storytellers – think about the setting. He took their pitches, twisted them slightly then put them on an alien world, ancient Rome, in a disaster zone… anything that wasn't ordinary. The story alone is nothing, the story and setting are a gestalt organism. Jester's setting of Brittleside and his approach to the Grim Reaper proves both points. An old trope can be given a fresh approach and the location can seal the deal.