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Conducted at Ken Steacy's Toronto studio over Chinese food, this comedic three-way conversation covers Leialoha's career of "amazing coincidences": meeting Mark Evanier at the 1971 San Diego con, getting on Warlock by bumping into Jim Starlin in Berkeley, inking Howard the Duck #1, and landing Star Wars because he knew who George Lucas was and asked Howard Chaykin in an elevator. He discusses the creative/financial tension between Marvel work-for-hire (fast, paid, owned by Marvel) versus creator-owned alternative work (slow, satisfying, underpaid), explaining why he eventually left Coyote — the bi-monthly schedule was destroying him. He is planning a samurai mini-series with Carl Potts at Marvel and more funny-animal work for Epic.