Medium
Herbert Lui
Jul 23, 2019
The sun was shining on Ramón Pérez. He and two friends were relaxing in a rented beach house in San Diego, a week before they would be joined by thousands of others from around the world for Comic-Con. Since the WildStorm offices (pre-DC Comics acquisition) were just a 20 minute walk away, they connected with senior editor Ben Abernathy and grabbed pints and tacos with him. They all exchanged contact information after, but didn’t talk about working together at all.
A few weeks later, Abernathy made a call to Pérez, asking if he’d be interested in working on a project together (this would later be the Resistance mini-series from Wildstorm). Pérez ends the story there, highlighting the moral that I was seeking, “Be yourself, don’t force your stuff down people’s throats. People are just fairly chill about that kind of stuff.”
“People like to work with people they like,” he reiterates.
