A conversation with writer John Ostrander and your host, C Lue Lyron! We chat about breaking in at DC during the Legends crossover; the influence of socially conscious writing by --and vegetarian dinner with-- Denny O'Neil. We discuss how John's always been inspired to mix real life, philosophy and imagination. Here's the episode link, too: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wmdxb-98ab40 Feel free to copy and share! Our talk began like so: C Lue: What did Mike Gold ask you to accomplish when you came aboard to do Legends? John: He sort of laid it out for me. Now, Legends was the first mini-series after Crisis On Infinite Earths, which was a twelve issue run. He said he wanted to do this one in six. Crisis sort of blew up the DC Universe, took things apart. Our goal was to bring it back more together, and to launch some new books, as well. So Legends would show how the new, single DC Universe worked together. C Lue: What were you thinking as...

First, I read a friend's idea. I started laying out the figures. Here are the pencils: Next, I started using marker to get bold outlines. I experimented with a bit of white-out. I had the perfect dagger teeth in ol' Devil Dinosaur there then screwed them up trying to "spot blacks" between them in the mouth. I came back with white out and the marker and gradually restored them best I could. I replaced some of my "scratchy" lines for cross=hatching with darker, bolder lines, as my friend Marcus suggested. I spotted more blacks (the fills that provide figure density) and finished up. I'm still open to changes, though. The dinosaur is completely an homage to Jack Kirby! Here I photographed with a bit of warm light on the Spectre. For him, I used no reference save myself, and for Galactus, I referred to Ron Lim's version for details, which is pretty faithful to Kirby.