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Back in March, I posted the text and images from one of my old three-fold flyers, a piece of art ephemera from 1996. Here is another one (with very minor edits), written just pre-Buffy, but well post-Pet Cemetery.

WARNING: Something Will Go Wrong

An important thing to remember about bringing people or animals back from the dead is that something is bound to go wrong. It will probably seem like a great deal at first, you just perform some ritual with garlic and fingernails, or sneak around at night in the sacred burial grounds, whatever, it’s not a lot to ask to get your loved one back. Right? Right, until...well, until you actually do it and they do come back, and they’re all rotting, or they’re possessed by the devil, or they’re just plain zombies or mummies and they try to kill you or suck your blood or whatever, something will definitely go wrong. It’s as if there’s some kind of punishment for trying to do what anyone would do, and bring a loved person or animal back to life. It’s as if, when you try to do it, you become evil, or something, and from then on you deserve everything you get.

It’s not as if it would necessarily always work out great anyway, I mean, you might have a person or an animal die and you’d be really sad and you’d wish for them back for a long time. Then, after years go by, you might get doing other stuff and you’d still miss them but it wouldn’t be all the time. Then this could be the time that you found a way to bring them back to life so of course you’d still do it but it might get really awkward because, even if they were normal and everything, you’d have this whole new life that they weren’t a part of anymore. Your apartment maybe wouldn’t be big enough for two, or there’d be no pets allowed or something and you wouldn’t really want to move but you’d just brought this person or animal all the way back to life and they sort of expect it. Whatever, all I’m saying is that without all the zombies and everything bringing people or animals back to life could still be sort of rough.

It’s not like I really expect someone not to do it, if they've got the chance. All I’m saying is that something is pretty well definitely going to go wrong.
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