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Understood.

I can still ask for clarification at Baltimore if it doesn't come via the news sites.

From The George Perez Fan Page on Facebook...

"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."

No. Because I'm sick and tired of the W/P line-up. After a while, when I've cooled down and Titans has stopped being awful.

I will eventually buy this. Probably not when it comes out, but after a while when money is finally stable. Of course, the way it's going...I may be able to buy it when it comes out.

Wow, reading that update from Perez really bummed me out ...

According to George's latest Facebook update he only has 13 more pages to go until he's finished this sucker.

With that info, I'm predicting a release date of this book for some time in March next year.

I was only just kinda casually interested in this book to begin with but it's long torturous history has elevated it to near mythic status. I'm definitely gonna purchase it whenever it does finally hit.

Plus, I'm sure George's pencils will be excellent.

I think I'll buy that f**ker and then wait 20-odd years to read it--just for spite!

I'm very curious. If the price is reasonable and I'm solvent, I'll most likely pick it up.

I'll read it in the same way I'll eat Idunn's golden apples, take a ride on Santa's sleigh and all the other stuff I'll do with fictional items!

Like making sweet, sweet love to Snow White!

According to Amazon.com "Games" is supposed to be released in Jan of 2011

From Mike Perkins via teh FB:

The Big Bad Wolf did that. Fathered a litter of kids, too.

Use spoiler boxes, Pov!!!

Sorry... I didn't think anybody who read DECENT comics actually read posts here in the Titans forum...

Touche!

Well, gang, "Games" is no longer a myth--it's about to be released today/tomorrow. Anyone gonna pick it up?

me am gonna wait til next month..can't wait.

I saw it and flipped through it--and was tempted!

Anyone buy it?

I couldn't. But I did flip through it.

We learn something about Jericho. Nothing bad, mind you. But I have a feeling as to why it was put in there.

I passed; not really interested, I'm afraid. But I am sure there are plenty who will love it.

I'm waiting for it to arrive through ebay.

Will probably read it. Buy? Not so sure about that. But I am very much curious.

I'm definitely going to buy it but I will wait until it comes out in soft-cover. George's art looks too good to pass up and, of course, I miss this incarnation of the team. I'm even looking forward to seeing Danny again!

A few years ago someone sent me a copy of this as a Christmas gift. My relationship with the Perez/Wolfman Titans isn't a good one. I developed a genuine dislike for this run because of DC's constant attempts at rehashing the lineup and stories for the sake of squeezing more money out of Titans fans to the detriment of the rest of the Titans. Cyborg and Raven are two of my least favorite Titans because by that point, the only characterization I'd seen of Cyborg in the comics was a judgmental asshole with as much consideration as a brick to the head, and Raven kept switching from good to evil so much she became a plot device instead of a character.

That said, I do enjoy Games a lot even though I'm happy Sarah Simms never got killed off in the actual continuity. I love the designs of the Gamesmaster's "Playing Pieces," especially Dungeon (the one Donna Troy goes up against). My favorite part of the novel was, and this is still a surprise to me, the Raven subplot. I liked the idea of her mother operating a ranch in Wyoming and the absence of some of the drama built around Raven's birth, and the conflict between her and her unnamed half sister was done much more successfully than Judd Winnick's mediocre writing with the "Sons of Trigon" and that whole Deadly Sins angle.