News Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:35:31 CST Ilke

Good Comics, pt. 3
2007-01-10 08:46:44 by Tom Brevoort

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JLA/AVENGERS #1 (Sep 2003)

Getting this project up and off the ground was no easy thing, as there were three companies involved, rather than just two, since George Perez had signed on with CrossGen at the time. Fortunately, George had left a loophole in his CrossGen contract that allowed him to do a JLA/AVENGERS project should one be offered to him by a certain date. It took everybody right up to the last second to get the necessary paperwork to George.

The core of the team-- myself, DC editor Dan Raspler, Kurt Busiek and George-- met in Florida, after the Orlando Megacon at which we announced the project, to work out the broad strokes of the story. We got a lot of good stuff out of that meeting. And when a blizzard warning closed Manhattan airports, Kurt and I rented a car and drove for 26 hours straight to get back to New York. I'd love to be able to say that we came up with all of the genius bits on that trip, but frankly we were both so tired and punchy for most of the trip that it's a wonder we didn't kill somebody.