Comic book artist George Pérez has died, a few weeks short of his 68th birthday.

I think the many retrospectives of Pérez's career that are sure to emerge over the next few days will include the word "legendary" a lot, and I think that unlike a lot of such retrospectives, the use of that word will be justifiable on more terms than simple politeness to the deceased. He was particularly known for his ability to execute colossal crowd scenes, a knack which served him well in his magnum opus, DC Comics' 1985 megacrossover Crisis on Infinite Earths—in which he was routinely called upon to draw scenes showing pretty much every single hero (and villain, for that matter) in not one but every DC Universe at once. Just planning some of those pages must have taken days, let alone executing them.

I'm sure a lot of people who know his work a lot better than I do will take these matters up at much greater length and with much greater authority, so, 'nuff said. In conclusion, fuck cancer.

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For me, it will always be JLA/Avengers, especially the last issue, which had EVERY Avenger and Leaguer up to that point, often in creative ways, along with pretty much every villain he just squeeze in on top of that. Only he could have pulled that off.

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