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Joint interview about the upcoming Killraven graphic novel for Marvel, their first return to the series after a six-year hiatus. Russell discusses his artistic evolution since the original Amazing Adventures run — reworking the Martian designs ("they used to look like Mr. Potato Head"), drawing from life models, and his influences ranging from 19th-century Symbolist painters to Wagner operas and foreign films. He also discusses his collaboration with Michael Gilbert on Elric for Pacific Comics and his wordless Symbolist fantasy stories. McGregor explains the graphic novel's 50-plus page scope, the introduction of Killraven's brother Deathraven, and a new character — a woman astronaut in her 50s at Cape Canaveral who provides a counterpoint to Killraven's brooding nature. He notes the creative freedom of working without page restrictions: "I put my dues in on it, that's for damn sure."

Plunkett, whose detailed work on Marvel Fanfare #6 (inked by P. Craig Russell) attracted wide attention, discusses his slow, painstaking process and ongoing struggle to balance craft with commercial deadlines. He cites Al Williamson's EC work as his primary comics influence and describes his admiration for heroic figure-drawing traditions while acknowledging the gap between realistic anatomy and superhero convention. He is working on a difficult EPIC story about the death of Robert E. Howard and tentatively planning a run of Defenders covers for Marvel.

Part one of a three-part interview with the principals of Star*Reach Productions, the comics industry's only dedicated talent agency. Friedrich traces the agency's founding in 1982, its growth to over 50 clients (including P. Craig Russell, Paul Chadwick, Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, and Mark Wheatley), and its philosophy of building cooperative creator–publisher relationships rather than adversarial ones.