Their age-old conflict is given new life in the Dark Horse comic Ether, which debuts this week.
Dias uses his human knowledge of science to help the people of the dimension Ether solve crimes.
The result is a fully-realized magical world, shaped by the over-active imaginations of both Kindt and Rubin.

Credit: David Rubin
It was really inspiring and made my imagination run in a lot of powerful ways.
I started to draw a lot of creatures, characters, and sets …
Drawing this series has been a lot of fun, but at the same time a great challenge.

David Rubin
In each issue new things happen: New characters, new environments, space-time jumps.
You cannot use the same formula to draw all that.
He developed elaborate designs and sketches for all of that … Truest definition of collaboration you could have while making comics.