Ryan and Daniel Quantz, along with then-newcomer artist David Marquez In a 2010 interview on Broken Frontier, six years before the murder, Ryan described the creative process:
With Syndrome, Blake Leibel, who created the concept, just sort of posed a couple of provocative questions to us—especially about how one would actually treat, as opposed to simply[...]
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Ryan and Daniel Quantz, who did the actual work of creating a comic along with artist David Marquez, reveal that Leibel had seemingly little to do with the creative process In fact, Leibel's name is only brought up once in the entire interview, when Ryan explains how little he had to do with the story:
"With Syndrome,[...]