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Cover for Dark Horse Presents #142, which featured the English edition of "Wormsong." The issue was a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, and featured a story written by Mike Mignola (Hellboy) and drawn by Ryan Sook, as well as this cover by Mignola, colored by Dave Stewart.

Dark Horse Presents #142 also featured the debut of The Devil's Footprints, with an 8-page story by Allie and Showman. The story, "Wormsong," featured a Danish witch named Caprusche, in an homage to Robert Bloch and H.P. Lovecraft. The story was reprinted for Lexy Press in Italy, and this cover was created by Showman and Stewart for that edition.

The first piece of color art done for The Devil's Footprints, drawn by Galen Showman (Renfield, Pagliacci) and colored by Dave Stewart (Hellboy, Fray, Dollz). The central character is Brandon Waite. The demon is Idpa, an ancient Sumerian fever god. The painting is Brandon's father, William.

Cover to Dark Horse Presents #156, by Ryan Sook (Spectre, Spike and Dru, upcoming BPRD), with inks by Mick Gray (Promethea) and colors by Dave Stewart. Mick was unable to ink the interiors, which were handled by Andy Owens (Fray, Angel). This was the debut of Witch's Son, created by Allie and Sook in 1996. Nothing had been done with it until 2000, when another idea by Allie was abandoned when he and DHP editor Randy Stradley couldn't agree on changes for that story.

Cover to Dark Horse Presents #157, by Ryan Sook, with inks by Andy Owens and colors by Dave Stewart. This was the final issue of DHP, and included the 20-page conclusion to Witch's Son. Sook was dragged away to do The Spectre, and only did layouts to the conclusion of this story. Karl Moline worked from his layouts for the interiors, and this became both a test of Karl's reliability, and his compatability with inker Andy Owens. Witch's Son in part got Karl the job of his career making the Fray comic with Joss Whedon.

The cover to Titan AE #1, drawn by Al Rio (Gen 13), inked by Randy Emberlin (Spiderman) and colored by Stewart. This was Allie's first attempt at licensed comics, as well as his first stab at science fiction. The results were no more successful than the film, despite a great job by the artists. The comic has the distinction of presenting the mother of the film's main character, who was never even mentioned in any draft of the film. That mother character was named for Allie's own grandmother, who prided herself, always, on having the legs of a teenager.

Dark Horse's adaptation of Tim Burton's
Planet of the Apes was written by Allie, drawn by Davide Fabri (Star Wars: Jedi Council: Acts of War) and colored, of course, by Dave Stewart. In compressing the 120-page screenplay into 44 comics pages, the writer had to leave out a lot. To make up for this, internal monologues for Daena and Ari were added to flesh those characters out. The screenplay that Allie worked from gave Daena a lot more dialogue; with a more accurate idea of her role in the final film, the writer may have chosen a different character to focus on.

Star Wars: Empire is set just before the original Star Wars film, and features Darth Vader and the Emperor as targets of a different kind of rebellion. Written by Allie with covers and a villain designed by Brian Horton, Empire deals with Imperial politics in a way never before seen in the comics, but the real inspiration for the book came from editor Randy Stradley's observation that we've never seen Vader really ruthlessly go to war and show what he can do. That happens more than once in Empire.