As I’ve been working on character studies for various illustrations, it occurred to me that we needed one for the mysterious, mercurial David Menlo. Here is our favorite one-handed Sorcerer looking intently at something unnameable while holding an antique thurible (a device for burning incense and used in many holy — or unholy! — ceremonies…. We’ll be spending lots of time with David in The Maelstrom and I think readers will be pleased to get to know David a little better and to see his and Max’s friendship grow. David might even find himself a girlfriend….