Alejandro Arbona

AA: This is an easy question. I had the chance of a lifetime when I got to edit a hell of a piece of work entitled "Fantastic Four: ¡Isla de la Muerte!" It was a one-shot comic that brought the FF to my native Puerto Rico, where they investigated the mystery of el chupacabras. It was a real labor of love, and a ton of hard work, but readers loved the hell out of it, and my fellow Puerto Ricans were overjoyed. We also took the ground-breaking step of simultaneously releasing a Spanish-language edition of the issue, nationwide, which was an industry first.

JF: What's the hardest thing about your job?

AA: It's a job in the publishing industry first and foremost, which is always deadline-driven, tense and extremely demanding, and requires the seamless collaboration of multiple parties. An added challenge is that, when you're reading a comic you're supposed to be editing, you tend to get caught up in the fun of what you're looking at, and you have to remind yourself to bring every ounce of your critical faculties and editorial instinct to hone the sharp ends, trim the fat and make sure all the moving parts are well oiled.