His artwork featured a fluid animation-inspired drawing style coupled with clear, clean layouts well-suited to the book.

[3] Parobeck got to know DC Comics editor Brian Augustyn, to whom he repeatedly sent photocopies of his sample artwork.

Augustyn eventually contacted Parobeck to give him a job penciling a few pages of a Doctor Light story in Secret Origins #37.

This led to his first regular series work on El Diablo, with writer Gerard Jones, which lasted sixteen issues.

[3] Halfway through his run on Batman Adventures, Parobeck was diagnosed with Type one diabetes, which can be controlled by taking insulin.