Having been alerted to George Perez doing a turn on this month's JSA, I resolved to march down to my local Android's Dungeon and buy my first new Perez comic in 20 years (I bought Busiek's Avengers years after they came out). I still fully expect to do that tomorrow when it comes out. Even though it ties into IC and I expect to be confused and left with a cliff-hanger. This is the way I learned about comics as a kid --one disconnected comic at a time.
Anyway, the writer of the new JSA arc is Paul Levitz, DC head honcho and former Legion and 1970s JSA writer.
The New York Times (of all places) has a puff piece about Levitz's return to scripting today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/books/07levi.html?ex=1296968400&en=ab03cb0f1b1190d0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rssThe piece is criticized by Tom Spurgeon at Comics Reporter:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/nyt_another_early_valentine_to_dc/DC Comics, writer George Gene Gustines and the New York Times continue their romantic media entanglement with yet another soft, gosh-wow profile article, this one on Paul Levitz's return to comics writing. I'm interested in the subject matter here, as it occurs to me seeing the subject header just how much of what DC does through titles like JSA reflects the basic approach to the material the DC's President and Publisher pretty much embodied as a full-time comics writer two and more decades ago. That's not always the case with the seemingly endless series of these relatively unsophisticated DC-focused articles at NYT. I wonder if when these pieces appear someone at Marvel ends up snapping at the folks from Motley Fool for no reason, then apologizing.