As mentioned earlier, GEORGE PEREZ NEWSLETTER #2 (Diamond Edition) is in stores today. The GEORGE PEREZ NEWSLETTER #2 (Limited Edition) will probably be shipped in a week or two. The reason ? George Pérez is autographing all 250 copies. Marcus Mebes said that they will be autographed next Wednesday, and will likely be mailed Thursday or Friday.

You should note that the Diamond Edition/Regular have a much smaller print run than the "Limited Edition". There are only 90 copies of the regular version, which makes it the rarer of the two editions. For casual fans, you should contact Tony Lorenz and order yourself a copy of the Limited Edition, while for hardcore fans, you might want both version for your collection.

I haven't read everything yet, but from first impression, it is really impressive. If you're familiar to the first issue, the cover are in color and the interior are in black and white. Issue two features a squarebound format (similiar to Prestige Formats) and the covers have a thin plastic coating.

There are three interviews in this issue, George Pérez, Tom Smith, and Kurt Busiek. The Busiek interview mostly focused on his work, including his upcoming POWER COMPANY. Smith's interview mostly is about coloring, although it's interesting to note that Smith got into coloring because Neal Adams thought his art "sucked" but liked his coloring.

Excerpt from the interview with George Pérez:

TL: ...Now all we need is the never finished "GAMES" graphic novel to be completed. I can dream right?
GPz: And I'm afraid that now that GAMES dream is never going to be more than that. In addition to the presence of dead chracters like Jericho appearing, a major scene in the story took place on the World Trade Center towers. That pretty much ends the speculation for me.

A new feature is the fan art gallery, which ran for twelve pages. A little too much for me, even though some of the artwork is really good. I haven't seen some of the Pérez gallery artwork, like the neato Wonder Man full-figured drawing. As you know, George have limited a lot of his art at conventions to just face art, so it's always kind of neat to see an original full body artwork.

The checklist focuses just on George's work with Marvel Comics.

There are three articles, one by Tony about George's Fantastic Four. The second one is by Kirk Philbrick, who's lengthy and detailed homage to George Pérez is a good read. Incidentally, Kirk's commissioned piece appears on the back cover.

The third and most interesting article I thought was Lars Peter Larsen's "Pérez Fans Around the World" article, which includes an interesting cover for DE NYE TITANER #1 and two other Danish version of our familiar US comic covers.

With all the features and professional fanzine, the price of $6.50 is really a bargain. No true Pérez fan should be without both cover version of this fanzine.

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