Interviews Conducted by Robert J. Beck

Yeah I think his work looks really good like that, looking forward

 to seeing yours!

Yeah, my business brain understands that it's better if i just pencil,
but my artist side longs to see my work fully realized. [laughter]

[laughter] Yeah. Moving on with the issue, you draw Hank and
Jocosta getting intermate, that is what it’s ment to look like
 right?

[laughter] Yeah, well he's repairing her. Actually, Dan Slott's
 script has her sitting up but I misread and had her laying down.
I'm surprised it passed editorial.

Ths issue is full of team-shots, are these complicated to draw?

A little bit. The tricky part is not so much the drawing all the characters, but staging them with enough variety to make it interesting, but not confusing. The thinking part gets in the way of the drawing part.

  The stone guys in this issue, was it you who put the symbols on
  them, the artist or the letterer?

  That was all me, but he still had to color them, so I suppose I
  should say us.

  Yeah they really seem to glow so I wasn't sure, they do look
  pretty cool though, really mystical.

  I write my wife and kids' names in there a few places but all
  squiggly, so you won't be able to make any out.

  Hank's gun does seem pretty usless in this book, it's basiclly a
  stun-gun right?

For THIS episode, but the stun gun is just one item that grows from his toolbot, I'm sure he's got a REAL gun in there somewhere. But, yeah, the stun gun is useless.

The next issue is the end of this chapter of the book and the last one you are on for a while?

I take a break for 24, 25, and 26 so that Dan can catch up with his script writing. Then I'm back on with 27 and hopefully uninterrupted ongoing. I should be getting a script for 27 any day now. That's where the spymaster came in, to keep me busy.

And you are doing all the covers for the series?

I did the cover for 24 and 25. They haven't asked about 26, yet, so who knows.