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Mayerik reflects on his early association with Howard the Duck — which he was the first to draw, in Man-Thing — and the grueling experience of the Howard newspaper strip. He describes how Steve Gerber's agent Mike Friedrich brought them together for the creator-owned graphic novel Void Indigo, which Mayerik fully painted, and which Marvel's Epic imprint published under what he considers one of the best creator contracts in comics at the time. He also discusses his Ohio-based lifestyle, his passion for karate (which he credits with giving him a sense of realistic combat choreography), his cable television work, and his hopes to eventually write and draw his own graphic novel.

Part two of the Adkins interview covers his early Warren work for Archie Goodwin on Creepy and Eerie, his transition to Marvel where he pencilled and inked Doctor Strange, and his long career as an inker on Silver Surfer, Sub-Mariner, and other titles alongside John Buscema, Jack Kirby, and Gene Colan. Adkins also recalls mentoring a string of future professionals — Craig Russell, Val Mayerik, Paul Gulacy, and Jerry Bingham — and expresses his desire to return to pencilling.