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FB Whilce Portacio on Spawn Omar: Now, what was the process like for you when you were going and going for it and creating new stories and you were working on Spawn, how did you come to work on Spawn?

Whilce: I just, actually not just, it was a week before my contract with DC was up. I was contracted with DC for a little while and did some of both Batman and Superman. And then, a week before it was up, it was at a period where it was going to be a week up, and so, I couldn't take a new job and they didn't really have a new job. And so, while I was going to hang around for a week, so I asked if I could hop out of the contract a week early, and he said yes. That next day, I was a guest at Arizona, Phoenix Con. And as I'm checking in, tap, tap, tap, turned around to [unintelligible 00:01:01], and it turns out my old partner-in-crime, because I published some books with Image before that, with Brian Haberlain, he was Todd's editor at the time. And so, it was Brian's idea to get me into the mix because Todd wanted to revamp again. And so, I go; cool, a great way to ease me back into Image and hey, the Spawn world, that's my playground

Omar: Yeah.

Whilce: So, it was an easy decision after Todd said so, I mean, asked. And on top of that, I got to know, I finally got to know Todd enough by that time, I knew like everybody that knows, really knows Todd. Todd can be rambunctious let's say, but he is one of the most loyal people ever. I mean, I was already a diabetic at that point, okay? And so, even at DC which has Time Warner health insurance, that was the point in time people don't remember, you know, I don't want to go to the politics, but before the ECA, I had top insurance because of the group, but every month, I had to pay extra, extra, and it kept rising because the costs were just so. I mean, it was so horrible back then. And so, DC was only, I think if I remember right, DC was paying only half, and so, I was paying the other, and it just kept rising. So, that was one of the other reasons why I opted out of the contract. So, then when I went to Todd, I told Todd, and Todd goes, “no problem”, and he paid in full, even the rises.