“Why sword and sorcery?”
That was the first question my editor, Wolfgang Bylsma, asked after I told him I wanted to do a series of four-page stories about a wily character named Talgard. Actually, if I’m honest, “where can we get a beer while we talk about this?” was his first question. But to be fair he had recently found out that his flight had been delayed four hours, and I was taking advantage of him being trapped in Brisbane.