From left to right: Ethan Van Sciver, Sharis Van Sciver, Chris Ward, Jack Kirby’s ghost.

My greatest memory of working at Wizard Magazine was writing a large feature piece on world famous comic book artist, Ethan Van Sciver (who also happens to be one of the best “humorists” of my day, and I remain eternally jealous of his wit and talent). In 2005, he won Artist of the Year for his incredible work on Green Lantern: Rebirth. God, has it been almost 5 years? Anyway, we spent the day goofing around at Universal Studios, where I got my tape recorder wet on a Rocky & Bullwinkle flume ride and destroyed it, forcing us to table all interviews and serious business activity until later in the day. What terrible luck.

I won’t go into how we almost got kicked out of the park that morning, but I will do the next best thing: I will reveal, for the first time ever, two really, really funny Ethan Van Sciver stories that simply wouldn’t fit in an Artist of the Year feature.

I found it while digging through some old material, and laughed my ass off at these unbelievable comedy/tragedies, painstakingly transcribed by an unknown, unpaid Wizard intern (thanks, by the way, whoever you were. I hate transcribing interviews).

(TAPE STARTS)

CW: Now, did you ever tell me about any cool pranks that you did [before my tape recorder got wet]?

EVS: Oh, did you get those on tape?

CW: I don’t even know. You mentioned a goat in you kitchen or something…I don’t know if that was a prank.

EVS: That wasn’t a prank, that was god preying on us…

Click through for the craziest story you’ll read this half-hour!

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