What was the best thing about working on Star Wars, and what was the worst?
Now, working on media properties frequently means a lot of sweating trying to get likenesses done. Back then, it was more like just doing comics. They were a little worried that we might actually tell a meaningful story about the principal characters instead of waiting for the next movie, but mostly, it was just doing a comic of Star Wars. The good thing about it was that we liked the characters and we had fun; David was an excellent writer, I enjoyed working with him. Tom Palmer was a phenomenal inker. His young son, Tommy, now all grown up, was a huge Star Wars fan. Tommy–he was five or six at the time–used to critique his father’s work, and if the Millenium Falcon was not right, Tom would hear about it. That was one of the funnier things about working on Star Wars. We had an expert available. Orion is your latest series. It is set in the universe of the New Gods, but why is the primary focus Orion himself? Well, partly because my feeling is that the primary focus is one of the thi
