For all you continuity buffs, Hercules already made an appearance in his own comic at some point in the chronology, and I remember thinking at the time that it was only natural that he and Capt. Fantastic should be the super buddies of my comics line like Batman and Superman were for DC. In fact, I seem to be doing a little retrofitting here, since it turns out they were already friends in their secret identities but had thus far managed to keep their super ones a mystery from each other all that time – it should also be noted that my best friend back then was a kid named Tom, so to some degree I was paying homage to our buddyhood by naming the secret identities after each of us. It’s a shame that the real John and Tom never used the full force of their power to defeat a scrawny dog – that’s work meant for our superhero counterparts and no one else.