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Harris recounts his return to comics after years writing licensed children's books, tracing the path from a Dragonlance backup story through creating The Ray for DC (with artist Joe Quesada) and then writing two Marvel Spider-Man projects — the Annex mini-series (featuring a Desert Storm veteran with downloadable armor) and Web of Doom. He also discusses his DC Elseworlds graphic novel Castle of the Bat, painted by Bo Hampton, which reimagines Bruce Wayne as Dr. Frankenstein.

A double interview: Jack C. Harris traces Simonson's full career from his college art-school senior thesis (The Star Slammers) through his DC and Marvel work (Manhunter, Alien, X-Men/Teen Titans), to his current revitalization of Thor, on which he has been given complete carte blanche as writer and artist. Simonson explains how he's drawing on Viking imagery and Norse mythology rather than the Kirby template, is rehabilitating neglected characters like Balder, and has ideas for the run dating back to 1967. Steve Ringgenberg's bonus interview focuses on the Star Slammers graphic novel, Walt's literary and artistic influences (Heinlein, Gordion Dickson's Dorsai books, Jim Holdaway, Frank Bellamy, European artists like Moebius), and his detailed plot-to-thumbnails-to-script working method.