Over on the CBR boards you mentioned that your Amazing Spider-Man 3-parter with Lee Weeks is plotted and that he's drawn the first issue and is working on the second. This made me curious about which process you use. Are you working Marvel-style (plot/art/script) on this or doing full scripts? And do you generally work one way or the other, or change it depending on the artist?

I work "Marvel-style" almost exclusively, although that style really predates Marvel Comics. (Murphy Anderson told me that he worked from Jerry Siegel's plots when they were producing Lars of Mars at Fiction House.)

Since comics is always a collaborative effort -- at least it is for those of us who can't draw -- I've found that plotting a story and then scripting from the penciled pages produces a better story.

I have written some stories full script, most notably the two-page Superman strip for ACTION COMIC WEEKLY. But in that case I was working with the great Curt Swan, who knew the form forwards and backwards.

Oddly enough, MARVELS: EYE OF THE CAMERA was also written full script. Go figure.

-- Uncle Rog

Not another Lars of Mars reference.

Can we have just one Lars-free thread around here?

But...but...he's an incredible crusader from another world! It says so right here...



It was in a comic book, so it must be true!

-- Uncle Rog

Jesus. I think I like Anderson's old art even better than his Silver/Bronze stuff.

That art really is beautiful.

Shut yo' mouff!

Murph has been producing beautiful art all his life...

Murphy Anderson, one of the unsung heroes of 60s DC. Good stuff.

Wow... that John Carter image is amazing.

Yeah, Murph can draw Tharks better than anybody.

-- Uncle Rog

The thoats are how I imagined them, too.