A portion of an MTV Geek interview with Ben Bates, penciller for the Mega Man comic series...

MTV: What has been the most difficult panel?

BB: Out of the four issues I pencilled I know exactly which panel was the hardest! In issue 10 Mega Man battles Crash Man, and the most difficult panel was panel 01 on page 14. Actually, it's that whole page, but panel 01 was where it had to start. I needed to figure out how this building way up in the sky that had tons of pipes and platforms winding and wrapping all around would converge on this single point. And then I needed to blow it up and make it fall through the sky! Twice!

I kept stressing out about how I would draw all those pipes and make it look like the video game, and how any of it would make sense in a 3d space! In the end, I simplified the number of pipes and literally drew and completed one panel at a time to handle the stress. I felt pretty happy with the results.

In the end I didn't even need to stress out about any of it, because all my drawing got covered up by sound effects anyway!