As a part of his “A Spirited Life” interview series, Bob Andelman chats with Darwyn Cooke about his upcoming Spirit series at DC Comics and gives fans a sneak peek at the book with several pages of artwork:

ANDELMAN: Can a licensed product like this be as lucrative to you as something you do that is creator-controlled?

COOKE: If you are confident that you can produce something that people are going to respond to, then I would say long-term, no. However, I have only spent just about six years in comics full time, and frankly, this was the only thing that would have kept me sort of on the track I was on. So it is not as lucrative at all, this is just something, it’s like, man, I don’t know. It’s like Brian Azzarello told me. He said, “Man, you are going to fail, but you are going to fail beautifully.”

Go check it out.

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