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Bissette discusses leaving his three-year run on Swamp Thing (concluding with issue #50 alongside John Totleben) to pursue the Cloak and Dagger graphic novel for Marvel (written by Bill Mantlo) and his own creator-owned project Grumm, a fantasy mini-series co-developed with Tom Veitch. He speaks at length about his collaborative storytelling philosophy with Alan Moore — layered visual clues, reflective-surface transitions, scripts rich with descriptive detail — and draws comparisons to filmmakers Hitchcock, Cronenberg, and Roeg in discussing what makes horror effective. Bissette also addresses the financial constraints of not being on a royalty-earning book and plans to write a history of horror comics.

A lengthy, rigorously argued editorial distinguishing "labelling" (voluntary, creator-applied) from "ratings" (mandatory, industry-enforced), using the MPAA film ratings system as a cautionary model. Bissette documents how the film ratings system evolved into covert commercial censorship and argues that a comics ratings system would inevitably produce the same results.

A letter from Italian editor Nino Bernazzali invites contributors to the renamed international magazine The Cartoonist, which will publish in three languages. A reader requests Stephen Bissette's opinion of the Swamp Thing film.