My top 50 greatest things
Number 25: George Pérez
George Pérez is my favorite comic book artist of all time. His style was fairly intricate and detailed, with an ability to craft and block scenes that often involved large groups of characters, all while capturing the humanity in each of them. He had the same skill of making action move on the page, similar to Kirby in this regard, but in a more fluid way. When dealing with more cosmic events, he was able to evoke the strangeness of it all, but elevated it with a very specific level of grandeur. His work on Crisis on Infinite Earths is a great example of all of these elements, managing an insane amount of characters and maintaining an authenticity to them and their surroundings. I would have a very difficult time picking a favorite from him. Two books I often revisit are X-Men Annual #3 and The Avengers #168.

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