Οι συνομήλικοι (επίτομο)

So far, the best way to avoid dying young is old age. But when aging isn't accompanied by illness, it's often paired with ridicule. A little effort to maintain your appearance is labeled as "showing off," "acting young," or "reliving your youth," while letting yourself go is seen as a descent into elderly melancholy or dementia. Heads you lose, tails others win; such is the paradox of the so-called "golden years." And the only genuine compensation, whatever accumulated wisdom you have, remains undervalued.

Arkas brilliantly explored what happens to us after death in Life After Death. Peers serves as something like a "prequel" to that album. It wouldn’t be wrong to call it Life Just Before, as it includes an equally ingenious catalog of what happens at the close of human life.

The three main characters—Gerasimos, Charalampos, and Zacharias the dog—embody three basic attitudes toward death: complete denial, prudent acceptance, and angry compromise. The nearly 90-year-old Charalampos expresses denial, the 75-year-old Gerasimos acceptance, and the "peer" (11-year-old) dog expresses angry compromise.

“The dog teaches us friendship, but the cat teaches us the world,” wrote poet Yannis Varveris in his last collection. The dog in Peers teaches us to resist the idea that we will soon lose the world.

The comic is in the greek language.