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Sergio Saavedra
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Joined: 13 August 2007
Location: Spain
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Posted: 10 September 2025 at 11:15am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

In the thread about Generations JB wrote:

"Originally, III was intended to slip its chapters between what we‘d already seen in I and II, but DC editorial asked for big changes, both in format and content. Instead of four bookshelf volumes, as before, they asked for a twelve issue, standard half-tab format miniseries that took the story forward, up to and including the time of the Legion of Superheroes."

This made me wonder what degree of freedom may a sucessful, consecrated author may have to create his own idea, with his own plot, format, etc.
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John Byrne

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Joined: 11 May 2005
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Posted: 10 September 2025 at 12:52pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Over the years—all right, decades—I have somehow developed a reputation as an egomaniac on a power trip, nearly impossible to work with. In fact, editors expecting to be dealing with that guy had been the cause of much grief throughout my career.

Yet, I invite anyone who is so inclined to present evidence of this side of my professional personality. Not rumors, legends and twenty-third hand internet drivel, but actual examples of this behavior manifested in the work.

Some writers and artists achieve a level of invulnerability, but I am not one.

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