posted March 05, 2003 08:42 PM            

I'd like to see a collection of George Perez's early 80s JLA comics, perhaps to coincide with the JLA/Avengers book. Perez and Gerry Conway created some wonderful stories in the JLA at the time that are still fondly remembered today. They were real high points for the series.

I speak of the famous JLA/JSA/New Gods crossover, the Secret Society of Supervillains revenge epic (JLA 195-197), the Amos Fortune's Tarot story from JLA 194, and, of course JLA 200. Granted the latter book had contributions from Brian Bolland, Gil Kane, Pat Broderick, Carmine Infantino, and Joe Kubert, but I wouldn't complain too much to have them sharing the attention with Perez. Hopefully, they and George wouldn't mind either.

It seemed odd to me that DC never collected those books when 1) Perez is a commodity and 2) Marvel has mined his old Avengers stuff. Perhaps those old stories don't sell that well? Still, I bet a collection like this would do well in conjunction with the JLA/Avengers mini.

posted March 05, 2003 10:49 PM            

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Originally posted by dcexplosion78:
Without #200's jam issue, it would already teeter over 250 pages...

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posted March 07, 2003 04:02 PM               

In the long-term, the result has been, unfortunately, that too many projects George worked on were "interrupted". For example, the "Korvac" story in AVENGERS, which had to be finished by Dave Wenzel; the JLA vs. SSOSV story that Keith Pollard finished; and HOW MANY artists did SONS OF THE TIGER go through when George dropped off that in mid-story?

George's "2nd chance" was when he started working for DC. After running with JLA, he finally got his act together BIG-TIME when he & Marv Wolfman started THE NEW TEEN TITANS. I was amazed when, after requiring ONE fill-in early on, George set a real record for himself on the book-- not missing a single issue for about the next 3 years or so. And his style really "matured" at the same time-- it was like it made all his "classic" work for Marvel before that look very "cartoony" by comparison!