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Englehart recounts his two-year stint at Atari developing video games (including a Garfield arcade game), which ended when Warner sold the company and his group was let go. Now returning to comics, he is planning a twelve-part Silver Surfer maxi-series for Marvel, a Blue Beetle strip for a proposed DC weekly anthology, and a T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents book with Dave Cockrum for a new company, while continuing to write Coyote for Epic. He gives an extended description of Coyote's premise — a Paiute Indian with a shape-changing trickster god's consciousness set loose in Las Vegas — and reflects on his mystical beliefs, including a possible UFO sighting and an encounter he believes was a gnome in Norway.

Englehart details his 1986 hire by DC to write Batman movie treatments after years of stalled scripts, describing his pitch to kill Robin in the opening seconds, the studio's resistance, and how his treatment (which introduced Silver St. Cloud and a darker tone) was used as the basis that led to Sam Hamm's script. He also disputes claims about who originated the homicidal Joker and addresses the failed mid-80s negotiations for him and Marshall Rogers to return to the Batman comic.

Patterson traces his career from early porno magazine covers and background work at Neal Adams' Continuity Associates, through his tenure as production coordinator at First Comics (where he inked Warp and the "Black Flame" backup), to his celebrated run inking Brian Bolland on Camelot 3000 and his current work on Green Lantern with Steve Englehart and Joe Staton. He speaks frankly about losing the Camelot assignment due to scheduling conflicts, his enthusiasm for Japanese animation and robot toys, his admiration for the Crisis on Infinite Earths series, and his dismissal of Marvel's Secret Wars as pointless. He offers blunt opinions on artists, publishers, and the state of alternative comics.

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.

Jim Smith of Spumco disputes factual claims from the previous issue's Ren & Stimpy interview; a reader urges Steve Englehart to take over Batman editorial from O'Neil; typography editor Don Markstein challenges O'Neil's claim about periodical longevity records.