Unfortunately, the hotly anticipated Teen Titans: Games has been delayed again. Featuring Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s returns to the era and characters they made oh-so-famous, this book has been essentially 25 years coming. Looks like we’ll have to wait a tad longer.
As the description for the book goes according to Robot 6, the book “features a classic Titans lineup – Nightwing, Troia, Cyborg, Changeling, Starfire, Raven, Jericho and Danny Chase – pitted against a mysterious villain playing a deadly game.” The book was originally solicited for a November release, but it has been noticed that the new Amazon release is now slated for January. Unfortunately, Perez had to give priority of his work to DCU’s Legacies book, and with recent surgery on his eyes, the man who was once an artistic powerhouse has slowed down a bit in his output.
While we wait for the work, we wish Perez all the best and a strong recovery. If he can still make books like Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds look just as fantastic as Crisis On Infinite Earths looked when it first came out, we can wait a little bit longer.
For Perez’s full statement regarding his health and the delays, check behind the cut.
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As many of you have already learned, The TEEN TTANS: GAMES graphic novel has been taken off the November release schedule and will be re-solicited. The fault is entirely mine. I’m afraid that a confluence of events, including my worsening e…yesight which prompted the ongoing surgical procedures that I’ve already covered here and the bad timing of committing to LEGACIES before I knew that GAMES’ deadlines had been compromised.
With LEGACIES being an ongoing series, as opposed to GAMES being a one-shot, it was determined that the monthly series had to be prioritized since my involvement with that series had already been publicized.
Due to some attendant light sensitivity issues, my ability to stare at a white sheet lit by studio lamps was definitely getting a bit difficult, which is one of the reasons I switched to inking Jerry Ordway for Issue 6. Oddly enough, looking at pages already grayed by pencils was easier on my orbs than starting with a clean white page.
In all likelihood, I will still have several surgeries to get through and, according to my doctor, the prognosis is good. I will be returning to GAMES after I finish LEGACIES and will progress as best as I can in between surgical procedures. After I finish that long, long, long delayed book, I will request to be used primarily as an inker for the following year (with the exception of some covers or pin-ups here and there) until my eyesight is normal (or at least stabilized). After that, I intend to kick some serious comic art butt!
I sincerely apologize to all of you who are now disappointed, yet again with the continuous delays on this decades-old project. I particularly want to apologize to my friend and TITANS cohort Marv Wolfman who’s shown the patience of a saint throughout all this, even during times when I was too overwhelmed to return his calls.I have about 25 pages left to draw and I’m hoping that, when the book is finally re-solicited (and it will be!) that it will be at least a tiny bit worth the long wait.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
-George Perez
