Alejandro Arbona
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AA: Get outta here. Haven't you ever heard of Spider-Man? Daredevil? Iron Fist? I work with those guys every day of the week.
JF: Why did you choose to do what you're doing?
AA: While I had been a voracious comics reader up through adolescence, I fell out of it during my college years and afterwards, with only the occasional dalliance in some collected volume that I could pick up on the casual, once-in-a-blue-moon foray into a comics shop. But the whims of building a career in entertainment and editorial brought me to employment at a comics journalism outlet, where I rediscovered the wonder of the medium, and nurtured a love and a critical knowledge of it bigger than I'd ever known before. After that, I was determined to stay in the comics industry, but I felt compelled to aim for the big leagues in my next job: something creative, something challenging and something on the inside. As luck would have it, patience and dedication paid off, and I was rewarded with an editorial position at Marvel. Couldn't have asked for better.JF: How do I get to be where you are now?
AA: There's no singular answer to this question. Several members of our editorial staff have come up through the internship program. Other editorial types have come to us from outside industries such as journalism, marketing and film. And some people just lucked into a spot where nobody knew their name or what they did so they didn't dare fire them. And of course, Marvel doesn't live off the labor of the editorial department alone; we also have a corps of marketing folks, designers, salespeople, custom publishing-type persons and all the other professionals it takes to run a huge corporation.JF: Impossible Man vs. Slapstick - who would win?
AA: I'll have to go with Impossible Man here. He's a Popuppian, nigh omnipotent by our grossly limited, third-dimensional, bottom-feeding standards, while Slapstick's basically just a guy who got some crazy powers. But that's just my opinion; if you want a concrete answer, you'll have to gather a colloquy of message board posters. They'll set you straight..