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Explains his self-taught coloring techniques (cel-vinyl animation paint, airbrush, felt markers) and how he broke into comics through conventions and a connection with Byron Preiss, eventually coloring for Howard Chaykin's The Stars My Destination and Marvel's Hulk magazine. Vents about the constant frustration of beautiful color work turning to "mud" in printing due to paper quality and separation issues — "So often you put all this beautiful work into something and it turns to mud." Discusses upcoming work on the X-Men Graphic Novel with Brent Anderson and his side career illustrating computer books.

Three creators respond to the question of why readers are concerned about the spate of superhero deaths. Terry Austin questions the inconsistency of keeping Phoenix dead while Elektra was resurrected; Steve Oliff argues stale characters should be killed off to make room for new ones; and Steve Gerber delivers a nuanced meditation on the difference between genuine emotional impact (Siegel's "Death of Superman," Miller's Elektra) and cynical marketing stunts, warning that handling death callously and "sold for $5.95 in the graphic novel format" trivializes the ultimate question.