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More From George Perez On Working At DC Comics

At Toronto Comic Con, George Perez held a panel, with an extensive Q&A. Talking about his life, his career, his likes and loves, he was also asked about is more recent work on the Superman book as part of the DC New 52 relaunch. And, just as he was in Metropolis, Perez was open and candid.

Things are being second guessed left and right, a case of too many chiefs, not enough Indians now. Whether it will work? Who am I to say. They want it to be like Hollywood, and it's becoming like Hollywood, in producing comics, and what you have is a corporate room deciding where things are going to go. And part of the reason for me leaving Superman is that I had certain ideas I wanted to do unfortunately, stuff that they okay one day, they would change their mind the next day, and it was becoming waytoo difficult, slowing us down. That ws unfortunate. I hope they succeed for the industry's sakeIn the case of Superman they didn't want a writer, they wanted a typewriter. They have to deal with people producing the movie, who also had a say in what's going on in the comic as well. My one fear, I'm not producing a comic, I'm producing a storyboard for a movie, that's not what I wanted to do.

So I decided to bow out, and stay on as penciller, where I have fewer headaches – not no headaches, but fewer headaches, In doing World's Finest, everything's still being decided at the last minute. They needed a design for Power Girl, they didn't ask me.They finally gave me the design, they needed to get it out solicitations, got it drawn, got it coloured, got it printed in the solicitation, they called me a week later, we changed our mind on the Power Girl costumes, so now I have to do a patch on the first issue cover and for a mercenary, practical and financial point of view, I just lost the resale value on my artwork, because now the character's not the same character that appears on the cover and they screwed me out of that, and I shouldn't have to be thinking about that but you guys really have to make up my minds!

When an artists like Dan Jurgens, one of the fastest most professional in the industry, when I was working with him on Teen Titans, he was always he was three months ahead of schedule. I was having a hell of a time keeping up with him. On Green Arrow, he was basically trying just to make the deadline and not be late, because kept changing their mind on the stories.

In the case of Superman I didn't want to wait around any more. I need to get away, it was not conducive. I didn't want to end up hating working on the book.

You can listen to the full audio here, thanks to Jamie Colville. Here are the World's Finest covers in question…

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