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JLA #32

April 21, 2009: Rags Morales Talks "Justice League of America"

Newsarama.com caught up with artist Rags Morales to talk to him about many things, including his 2-issue stint on "Justice League of America" #32 and #33.

    Morales is doing two issues of Justice League of America with writer Dwayne McDuffie. It begins with this week's issue #32, and the artist will also be drawing next month's issue #33.

    "JLA was offered to me as a regular series, and it was a plum opportunity, but I was already committed to work with Geoff again," Morales said. "I really wanted to sink my teeth into something that was a little more uncommon. Something that wasn't a monthly book. The chance to work with Geoff was just too tempting."

    His return to the JLA after having been gone from those characters for awhile was a little different because the line-up has changed so much recently, Morales said.

    "It's not the classic line-up," he said. "I'm dealing with more of the secondary characters, what with Batman deceased and Superman on call and Wonder Woman off doing her thing. The characters I'm dealing with in these issues are Vixen, Zatanna -- whom I'm familiar with, obviously -- Firestorm, and John Stewart as Green Lantern. And Dr. Light. And that's cool. I remember when I was speaking with [DC editor] Eddie Berganza about doing some JLA, he mentioned getting to draw Hawkman. And I kind of snarled at him. There comes a point where you kind of run out of ideas for a character, and having done 21 issues of Hawkman, it seems like every commission is a request for Hawkman. You don't want to run into a rut. You want to do something fresh and new. So when I had the chance to do these characters, it was a new challenge. And that's always more fun."

Read the complete interview at Newsarama.com.



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