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Petrucha describes how Jim Salicrup recruited him for Topps' Duckman comic just as he'd resolved to quit comics, and how he pitched satirical springboards that won approval from creator Everett Peck and the Klasky-Csupo TV team. He discusses the show's sophistication, the Underground-comics aesthetic of artist Craig Yoe, and reflects on earlier series META-4 and Squalor for First Comics and his work on Topps' X-Files.

Petrucha explains how his longstanding interest in Forteana and UFO phenomena made him lobby hard to write the X-Files comic for Topps, and discusses the show's success as the product of unique, integrity-driven storytelling rather than formula replication. He reflects on the freedom the comics format gives him versus TV budget constraints and expresses hope that the series' success will allow him to revive Squalor and Meta-4.