Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes George Perez interview - insight into early days of the new 52

Bleeding Cool has a piece up about a recent George Perez interview

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/06/24/george-perez-talking-about-being-rewritten-at-dc-comics/

He talks about his experience on Legion of 3 Worlds and also his current work with Paul Levitz on Worlds Finest. He also mentions how DC is now requiring full scripts on all books, and editorial indecision abounds. This might help explain why Paul's new run on the Legion has been so herky jerky.

Confirms what I thought: that DC is currently a very badly run company.

Stories by committee, where every committee member is in a different location, hasn't bothered to read any communications and only has a tin can and some string to get a point across.

With the move to Burbank, there may be even more committee members trying to have their say.

It's just to bad that Paul Levitz and Jim Shooter couldn't put their pennies together and buy that greedy parent corporation out.

Stories by committee. If there's one thing guaranteed to make a shitty outcome, it's a committee. Like him or hate him, Alan Moore does interesting stuff because he comes up with a story to tell and tells it. His way. Committees by extension have no one voice, and spend more time worrying about covering their asses than telling interesting stories.

For a long time the major background of DC stories have been "setting the stage for what they want" rather than telling stories. You have to have a story. Not some decompressed mess designed to fill a graphic novel structure. Story. Story. Story.

Horribly enough, I think when they leave those "creative summit" meetings, they think they have one. If you can call a homogenised mess that everyone ties into a story.

Actually, I think by that stage the people invited are already geared to do whatever gives them a chance of staying in the good books of where the editorial creative drive wants them to be. Anyone not fitting that mould has either long gone, or has DC fawning over them (which doesn't work well either).

Decisions will be further removed from even that horrid level going forward, as games and toys and movies will lead.

I believe in writers telling their stories. Yeah, once in a blue moon an editor has to say "Ummm, sorry, we aren't using that because of "x". But that should be once in a blue moon. It shouldn't be "well, we know you have the story but Joey in the mail room had this one great idea and we liked it and so we are gonna drastically change character "y", which has nothing to do with your story, but may impact it later on down the line. We haven't decided yet. Possibly. Tell ya what, check back tomorrow."

If the editors want to write the books, do so. But we all have issue #50 saying it's not a cool idea.

It doesn't make sense to regulate a creative medium so closely. Might be better for DC to just set some ground rules and let the writers go with it. And full scripts for everything? Doesn't give much room for flexibility.