Have you ever wondered what makes the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse so apocalyptic? Obviously it has something to do with conquest, war, famine, and death, but how? How does the Conqueror conquer? How does War war? Is Famine only about starving people, or does any resource scarcity count? How is Death causing all these beasts and diseases to kill people? Come to think of it, why is Death the one in charge of people dying to war and famine? Are War and Famine trying not to kill people? And what's up with Death and only getting to kill a quarter of the Earth? What does it even mean to kill a quarter of the Earth? Is it only talking about people or are we including plants and animals too? Or is it something completely different? Is the quarter a limit or a prescription? Why are any of them doing any of this in the first place? Because they want to? Because they have to? Or is it just some fundamental aspect of their existence that they cause these things to happen? Where did these Horsemen even come from and why do they have the authority to do any of this? What's so special about them? I suppose you could say they're just the embodiments of these concepts, beings created solely for the Apocalypse, so of course they're going to do what they were created to do, but… well, that's just kind of boring, isn't it? Isn't it so much more interesting if you think of them as people just like you and me? People with some unique abilities, sure, but still, people. People with the same wants and desires that any of us could have. That's a much more interesting path to the apocalypse, don't you think?