 Despite wanting to draw action-oriented superhero stories at the time, he credits his work on "Maze Agency", whose scripts Barr composed in the full script format, with improving his skill and confidence at storytelling.In a 2004 interview, he stated that this work also developed his preference for character-oriented stories over action-oriented ones, both as an artist and a writer.Hughes' interior pencils were inked by Eury's longtime friend Rick Magyar, and because Hughes aspired to ink his own work one day, he took Barr's suggestion that he produce pinups on each issue's back cover as an advertisement for the next issue to practice inking his own pencils.