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CBG #1313 (15 Jan 1999)
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News brief from CBG #1313 (15 Jan 1999)
‘Avengers/JLA’: Not Coming
Your Way Soon.
While both teams may be more popular now than they have been in years, both Marvel and DC’s key players are publicly admitting that an Avengers/JLA crossover is a slim possibility for the foreseeable future. “At the moment, there’s really not much likelihood of this happening, for the following reason: If such a project were to be done, it would absolutely have to be pencilled by George Pérez,” Avengers Editor Tom Brevoort said. “He got cheated out of it once before, years ago, and, as far as I’m concerned, he’s got right of first refusal. In fact, I would actively move to halt any Avengers/JLA project that George was not the penciller of, unless he had turned the assignment down.”
Brevoort added that, while, in his view, Pérez would have to pencil the crossover, he would be very reluctant to give up Pérez’ pencils on the monthly Avengers so he could take time to draw any specials.
Pérez said that he’s game for the project, as well, and, while he appreciates Brevoort’s concerns, he has a potential solution.
“It would be a dream come true, but I can understand any editor’s desire not to take their creator away from their own titles for doing another,” Pérez said.
“An option might be to do an actual crossover where it stays in the continuity of the comics — here part one would be in JLA, with the regular creative team handling it as a regular issue or an annual, and ditto Marvel’s end, where the JLA would guest-star in Avengers. That would also be the first time a thing like that has ever been done, but, because of the whole ‘Access character, we're at a time where it actually could be done.”
JLA writer Grant Morrison weighed in with his views on the potential project. “Actually, I've got no interest in writing it,” Morrison said. “I'd like to read it, if Kurt writes it, but I’ve got absolutely no interest in it. Honestly, I just don’t like Marvel enough to care if they ever meet. Kurt Busiek does, so it would be better if he writes it. If I wrote it, I'd heavily favor the JLA, and the story probably wouldn’t work. Personally, the JLA could kick the Avengers’ butt, and any story that suggested otherwise would seem kind of contrived.”
While it may look bleak for any such Avengers/JLA team-up, Pérez concluded that, in today’s market, no one can say: what fans will see.
“Naturally, it’s something that would have to have high-up approval from both Marvel and DC,” Pérez said. “And, with all the restructuring that Marvel is doing lately, anyone who might've said yes to the deal last week may not even be there today, and vice versa — so we'll have to wait and see.”
Source: CBG #1313 (15 Jan 1999)
While both teams may be more popular now than they have been in years, both Marvel and DC’s key players are publicly admitting that an Avengers/JLA crossover is a slim possibility for the foreseeable future. “At the moment, there’s really not much likelihood of this happening, for the following reason: If such a project were to be done, it would absolutely have to be pencilled by George Pérez,” Avengers Editor Tom Brevoort said. “He got cheated out of it once before, years ago, and, as far as I’m concerned, he’s got right of first refusal. In fact, I would actively move to halt any Avengers/JLA project that George was not the penciller of, unless he had turned the assignment down.”
Brevoort added that, while, in his view, Pérez would have to pencil the crossover, he would be very reluctant to give up Pérez’ pencils on the monthly Avengers so he could take time to draw any specials.
Pérez said that he’s game for the project, as well, and, while he appreciates Brevoort’s concerns, he has a potential solution.
“It would be a dream come true, but I can understand any editor’s desire not to take their creator away from their own titles for doing another,” Pérez said.
“An option might be to do an actual crossover where it stays in the continuity of the comics — here part one would be in JLA, with the regular creative team handling it as a regular issue or an annual, and ditto Marvel’s end, where the JLA would guest-star in Avengers. That would also be the first time a thing like that has ever been done, but, because of the whole ‘Access character, we're at a time where it actually could be done.”
JLA writer Grant Morrison weighed in with his views on the potential project. “Actually, I've got no interest in writing it,” Morrison said. “I'd like to read it, if Kurt writes it, but I’ve got absolutely no interest in it. Honestly, I just don’t like Marvel enough to care if they ever meet. Kurt Busiek does, so it would be better if he writes it. If I wrote it, I'd heavily favor the JLA, and the story probably wouldn’t work. Personally, the JLA could kick the Avengers’ butt, and any story that suggested otherwise would seem kind of contrived.”
While it may look bleak for any such Avengers/JLA team-up, Pérez concluded that, in today’s market, no one can say: what fans will see.
“Naturally, it’s something that would have to have high-up approval from both Marvel and DC,” Pérez said. “And, with all the restructuring that Marvel is doing lately, anyone who might've said yes to the deal last week may not even be there today, and vice versa — so we'll have to wait and see.”
Source: CBG #1313 (15 Jan 1999)
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