Writer: Joel Newman Artist: Finn Kidd Secret Society Press, 2024 Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” This review of Heaven is an Afterparty looks at the zany first issue, with its sense of mortification arising from the passage of time. Writer Joel Newman,and the artist Finn Kidd appear to have a surprisingly subtle message immersed within the pages of partying and silliness. On the face of it, this is an absurdist parody. An “infamous party peddler” named Ariel “Ari” Santanas has seized a brand new super yacht, the SS Enchantertainment, spoiling the carefully prepared counter-strategies developed by her former friend, Jenny Baxter. A DJ with the very English stage name of Cecile K starts up some music and some dancers – “Ravers! The Devil’s fun-havers!” yells Baxter in disgust – start bouncing around on the decks. The piracy is ridiculous, the effort by Jenny