La super frustration de George Perez

[ALIASAdmin-Woman]

Unfortunately when you are writing major characters, you sometimes have to make a lot of compromises and I was made certain promises, and unfortunately not through any fault of Dan DiDio, he was no longer the last word, lot of people making decisions, going against each other, contradicting, again in mid story. The people who love my Superman arc, I thank you. What you read, I don't know. After I wrote it... I told them here's my script, if you change it, that's your prerogative, don't tell me. Don't ask me to edit it, don't ask me to correct it, I don't want to change something that you're going to change again if you disagree...

I didn't mind the changes in Superman, I just wish it was the same decision issue 1 or issue 2, and I had to kept rewriting things because another person changed their mind, and that was a lot tougher, it wasn't the same as doing Wonder Woman, I was given a full year to get Wonder Woman established before enfolded into the DC Universe properly, I had a wonderful editor Karen Berger who ran shotgun for me. They wanted me to recreate what I did through Wonder Woman, but it's not the same age, not the same atmosphere, I couldn't do it any more, and the writer who replaced me, Keith Giffen, was very nice. I've known Keith since we both started in the industry, he called me up when they asked him to do Superman to make sure I wasn't being fired off Superman. And regrettably I did have to tell him I can't wait to get off Superman. It was not the experience I wanted it to be.

[ALIASAdmin-Woman]

Amongst some of the surprises that greeted him on the title were the fact that he didn't even know Grant Morrison would be working on Action Comics. "I had no idea I was doing it five years ahead [from Morrison's Action], which means, [in] my story I couldn't do certain things without knowing what he did, and Grant wasn't telling everybody."

"I became very frustrated,"Perez added, explaining that there were basic questions about the character's new status quo that DC editorial couldn't answer for him. "Are the Kents alive? What's his relationship with all of these characters? Who exists? And DC couldn't give me answers. I said, 'Oh, my gosh. You're deciding all these things and you mean even you don't know what's going on in your own books?"



By the time the Superman title hits its one-year-anniversary zero issue in September, the series will have seen three separate writing teams (Perez, Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens, and incoming writer Scott Lobdell);with the level of editorial oversight Perez describes here, it's almost surprising that even more writers haven't cycled in and out of the series.

[AceMembre de Nextwave]

Je pense que tu aurais pu (dû ?) poster ceci dans le topic vo consacré à Superman ...

Mais ça en dit long sur l'incroyable organisation qui règne chez DC depuis leur reboot. L'exemple le plus frappant concerne l'ignorance de Pérez sur le fait que sa série se déroulait cinq ans après celle de Morrison ("Action Comics") et que le staff éditorial ne lui a transmis aucune info sur la situation de son personnage, en lui demandant de le réécrire comme à l'époque où il s'occupait de Wonder Woman (ce qui date sérieusement, au passage) ...

Je ne veux pas dire que ça excuse la faiblesse du boulot de Pérez, dont la version de Superman ne m'a vraiment pas séduite, mais enfin ça mérite du coup une indulgence certaine.
Et ça corrobore ce que l'article de "Comic Box"sur le reboot disait, à savoir de nombreuses incohérences, le fait que certaines équipes créatives n'ont été mis au courant du reboot qu'en Avril (voire plus tard) pour des séries à paraître en Septembre... Bref, ça ne fait pas très sérieux pour un éditeur qui a entrepris, avec pas mal de légèreté, une totale refonte de ses parutions.

Instructif en tout cas.

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

Gail Simone a aussi dit ca au début..
C est d ailleurs une des causes des nombreux changements d auteurs au 7..
On aurait pu penser que le reboot etait clairement pensé..(surtout apres les erreurs suite a crisis en 87 et Zero Hour en 91??) mais si les gros auteurs avaient une vision claire (et même c etait al leur) comme Johns, Morrison, Snyder.. la grande majorité des auteurs a été lancé dans l histoire avec un minimum d infos d'ou le four de certaines series ...
Le souci est aussi que plus sont au courant, plus t as des chances de fuites (et là y en a peu eu...)

[osgiliatEternel]

Il faut bien s'en rendre compte le reboot de Perez sur Superman n'est pas son meilleur boulot,et pourtant j'adore tout ce qu'il fait. de Crisis en passant par Futur imparfait,avec Hulk.
ca m'agace quont lui est pas donner suffisamment d'info pour faire un meilleur scenario.

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