[1] Morales attended a number of vocational art classes, including The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey.

[2] Morales' first professional work was penciling 19 issues of Forgotten Realms with writer Jeff Grubb as part of the TSR line of books.

At the time Morales said "when I saw the magic that Michael Bair added to my work, I knew I had to stick with this dude".

[4] The series was eventually selected by The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)'s 2007 recommended list of Great Graphic Novels For Teens.

[11][12] Regarding his figure work, Morales finds stock, poster-like standing poses difficult, preferring the more communicative movement seen among characters in narrative sequences, a forte he feels helped him attain the Identity Crisis assignment.