BUSIEK: NO JLA/AVENGERS PROGRESS
Monday February 5, 2001
By Beau Yarbrough
Three things are inescapable for comics fans: Death, taxes and rumors of the long-awaited "JLA/Avengers" crossover book from DC and Marvel Comics.
The latest mutation of the "JLA/Avengers" crossover book rumor surfaced late last week on several comic news Web sites. Allegedly, artist George Pérez, long the anointed artist for the project, will be working on the book soon. Although he's gone exclusive with CrossGen, he has the right to do the "JLA/Avengers" project if the two companies ever work out their differences. (Legal disagreements unrelated to the project reportedly have stalled collaborations between the two.)
Rich Johnston's column at Silver Bullet Comics even went so far as to say that Pérez's former "Avengers" collaborator, Kurt Busiek, is currently working on the script and will be handing it off to Pérez in March.
Nope.
"I am not working on a script," Busiek told the Comic Wire on Sunday. "I'd love it if there was forward motion on this, and I'd love to be involved if it happens. And I've been hearing rumors on this for years now.
"But I haven't heard that any deal's been signed, and I'm not working on a script."
