1 {scene: The dull grey wastes of Hades. Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs leads Marcus and Julius across the landscape.}
1 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: HOW DID YOU COME ACROSS AN INSANELY OVERPOWERED FIREBALL? ROMANS DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.
1 Julius: Greek fire.
2 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: BUT THAT DOESN'T EXPLODE. IT JUST BURNS SLOWLY AND GIVES OFF FUMES THAT CAUSE HALLUCI...
3 {Fireballs stops walking and stands stock still.}
4 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: {lifting his scythe angrily} CURSE YOU, CHOKING!!

This answers the question of what Fireballs was going to say in #1178 before Choking On A Giant Frog interrupted him.

Oh, and this isn't the Infinite Featureless Plane of Death they're walking across. It's still Hades, which is why it has features.

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2015-09-21 Rerun commentary: It must be somewhat disconcerting to find yourself dead, being escorted across the Underworld by an anthropomorphic psychopomp, only to have said psychopomp turn out to be somewhat... well, psycho.

I think Hades should slowly be draining the colour from Marcus and Julius, but I didn't bother doing that when making these strips.