What Was Up With ‘Wizard,’ #13: August 1999

Oct 13, 2026 | 11:55:53 PM | Ilke Hincer

In the letters, the first person wants to know what exactly an inker does. Sounds like someone had just watched Chasing Amy! Wizard turns to their favorite inker, Jimmy Palmiotti, who talks briefly about enhancing things, putting some things more in the foreground and others more in the background, but he does admit that penciling is a lot harder. I’ll have more about Palmiotti below! The second letter is about … inking? What the heck, letter-writers? This dude wants to know about reference books about inking, and Wizard notes that Steve Rude collaborated on a recent inking book and there’s always How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, which was still in print at the time (I don’t know if it still is, lo these many years later). Good for Wizard, giving out good advice like that! 

Another dude wonders what happened to Crimson Plague, and when Wizard asked George Pérez about it., he said it would be relaunched in the summer of 2000. Only one more issue came out, however, and Pérez never got to finish it due to many other things happening in his life and the industry. So sad!