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Action Comics #863 (Page 23)

April 4, 2008: George Perez Talks “Legion of 3 Worlds”

Newsarama.com spoke with artist George Perez about "Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds", which fans got a taste of in the pages of "Action Comics #863" this week, and asked him many things, including what we can expect from the first issue's cover...

    Q: Can you tell us what's on the cover?

    GP: I literally drew the Legions of three worlds. There's the Abnett/Lanning Legion, the classic Legion that's been appearing in Action, and the current Legion that Jim Shooter is currently working from the original Mark Waid/Barry Kitson era. So all three Legions appear on the cover of issue #1.

    The next issue's cover is going to spotlight the villains, and trying to find that consensus as to what the final appearance of any of the characters is going to be will always be a challenge. With the current Legion, I had to find out what they're going to be doing with the costumes by the time this book comes out. The costume designs for this latest Legion, with the exception of what's on the second cover, have not been inside the book yet, because I've only worked on the first issue. So those are always a challenge, because I'm trying to coordinate with yet another group of editors -- in this case the Legion editors -- to get all this stuff together.

    But I've been doing these types of maxi-series and mini-series for a long time. So I've gotten pretty good at the ins and outs of it.

    Q: That teaser image in Action Comics was pretty intense.

    GP: Yeah! I had a lot of fun doing that. By the way, the inker on that, who hasn't been credited, is Scott Koblish. He's inking the series. The only thing I'm inking is covers. In fact, the last issue I did -- issue #10 of Brave and the Bold -- was incorrectly credited to Bob Wiacek inside. They've already apologized to poor Scott Koblish. But anything that is interior artwork for the Legion project will be inked by Scott Koblish. And it's amazing all that detail he puts in. Sometimes he even surprises me. Like in Brave and the Bold, there was a little shot of Superman, and even I didn't draw the insignia when it was that tiny. Well, it was in the inks when he brought it back. A man after my own heart.

Read the entire interview at Newsarama.com.



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