DYNAMIC FORCES: What do you like best about Spider-Man? What sets him apart from other heroes?
RON FRENZ: The everyman nature of the character. His appeal is how he relates to all and how he's by far the easiest to know personally. The original creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko went out of their way to make him a regular guy. Spider-Man does well internationally because of the full face mask - every culture can project themselves on to Spider-Man. He's a big hit in Japan and other countries, because all cultures just enjoy the adventures of the characters.
PAT OLIFFE: I also think it's the connection with the everyman quality of the character. The genius of Peter Parker/Spider-Man is that he would appeal and be this character that all could relate to. Then this average teen would be given this gift of great powers and responsibility - it was a great idea and hook that made the comic work and made it so popular. Plus the visuals just work for this character. You have the spider influence, but with this heroic red and blue costume that was designed so great and appealed to so many. This character is visually interesting and moves better than almost any other character around.
JOHN LIVESAY: He's always been a lot of fun and always usually likable. The villains were never too stupid or cornbally always cool enough, but yet he has good enough powers is strong enough and witty enough. Things just work well with this character.
JD SMITH: The thing I like best about Spidey is he's a regular guy who has some pretty irregular things happen to him. I think you can identify with the fact that he's an average kid with the same shortcomings as everyone else.

DF: What made you want to work on this character and the family of titles associated with him?
RF: My fandom from being a kid is what made me always want to do Spider-Man as a character and a book. From about the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to grow up and work for Marvel and do Spider-Man. It was definitely because of my love of the character as a kid.
PO: Well basically it is kind of funny that when I first was looking to get into comics and thought about characters Spider-Man not at the top o f my list. I liked him, but I was not a rabid fan. Then Untold Tales of Spider-Man was looking for an artist, I got picked, and within the first issue I fell in love with drawing the character. The way he moves and the way you can play with body positions of the character makes him unlike any other character I've ever worked on.
JL: Spider Man has always been my favorite character. I knew Pat from his Spider-Girl work. He and I did a few issues together. Since I worked with him and Ron on Spider-Girl, I thought they would be great for this project.
JDS: I've always loved Spider-Man. I don't think that glow from childhood has worn off yet.

DF: How did you come to be a part of the design team for the lithograph “Amazing Spider-Man: Enter The Green Goblin?”
RF: Home Shopping Network needed and preferred four signatures on these prints. In the course of any regular print, you usually just get three signatures - penciller, inker, and the colorist. But Home Shopping likes to be out of the ordinary and wanted to have four. One suggestion was to bring in an inker to do some part of it, but John didn't want that. Pat wanted another penciler, so he laid it out, pencilled the entire thing, and left two figures unpencilled. I pencilled two of the Enforcers, Fancy Dan and the Ox. I was a last minute addition. Each lithograph also has a special Spidey sketch on it. Everyone but Pat did sketches of Spider-Man on the lithograph. I did about 2/3 of the sketches on those exclusive remarks.
PO: That mostly came from John Livesay. He basically put this together. We've worked together before and he did a fill-in inking job on an issue of Spider Girl, which worked very nice with my style. We came up with some other small projects and were looking for something different. He worked with Dynamic Forces and it sounded like a great idea to be restaging and revisiting this important moment in comics history.
JL: This was my idea. I liked the Dynamic Forces prints and wanted to have one for my own. I called up Nick (Barrucci, Dynamic Forces president) and asked him about the chance of doing one. I showed him the layouts and design, Marvel approved it, then we just went from there. I talked to Pat, he did his work, then everyone else fell into place and worked on it. Pat and I are very big fans of Spider-Man and Green Goblin, so we really wanted to do this.
JDS: I've done a lot of work with Nick in the past and have always wanted to work on a litho of his. A buddy of mine, John Livesay who inked the piece, really was the catalyst for the whole project. He's some kind of Svengali or something.

DF: What was the biggest challenge to creating this lithograph?
RF: The biggest challenge for me was to pencil the figures in such a way as to have them blend in some degree with the incredibly terrific art of Pat. My job was just not to screw it up. And the individual viewer has to be the judge of that. Pat is awesome. I was intimidated to put my clunky lines in the midst of what he was doing. I think it worked. I also think JD's coloring is fantastic and really added depth and dimension to the piece!
PO: I think the challenge was taking John's idea and playing with it a little to try and give it more of a three dimensional look. When you look at the piece and see the pumpkin bombs in the extreme foreground, I've done that to try and add a little more dimension to the piece. We also have a strong background element with the Enforcers and the stalactites. Another challenge was the size of this piece. It's proportionately close to double splash page size and trying to design and implement all of this into one framework was very tough.
JL: Just making sure everything comes out as good as possible. I really wanted to make sure we got JD. He's just one of the best colorists and everything fell into place from there from the layouts to coloring.
JDS: Trying to keep the colors in harmony. It can be difficult when you have several characters on one piece.