TALKING TO MARK ALESSI ABOUT WAID, PETERSON and the FUTURE OF CG
Matt Brady
posted 11-20-2001 02:46 PM
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NRMA: A point of clarification then – when comparing Ron Marz to Mark. The press release stated that Mark was being freed up, among other things, so he could finish Empire. But doesn’t Ron have other commitments he’s finishing up without leaving the company? Is it a matter of personal preference, where the system works better for Ron than it does for Mark?
MA: That could be the case, but isn’t. When anyone joins us, they come to us with a list of current engagements that they’re involved in. For George Perez, it was JLA/Avengers, which we allowed him to get started on, and have given them a due date for completing agreements, and then he went to the project, and he’ll be back with us, and he wants to do his own book. With Chuck Dixon, there were some things that he had committed that he had to get done. For Ron Marz, there were a series of projects that he had agreed to do for Dark Horse, specifically, Star Wars-related projects. They were part of his original agreement, but were delayed by Dark Horse, timing wise, and I understand that there might even be one more outstanding. So, the projects that Ron’s actually working on were in his original agreement to be done.
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NRMA: With the announced series penciled by George Perez – will he be writing that as well, or is it too early to say?
MA: I can assure you that he won’t be writing it. He’ll be penciling it. I don’t anticipate that we will ever be in a position where someone will pencil and write a title. But George’s viewpoint was that he enjoyed doing Chronicles, because he got to whet his appetite in a few different areas, but he wants to start being associated with his own character or characters in the CrossGen Universe. At his request, we’re going to give him his own book, and we anticipate it will come out the first quarter of 2003, after he’s finished JLA/Avengers and has the time to do the front end work and get an issue or two ahead of schedule.
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