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Benny the Ball
18:31 / 08.07.09
So today sees the release of DC's Wednesday Comics, a weekly, 12 part, tabloid sized mixed bag of stories and characters.

I picked up a copy, but haven't read it yet - it does look very nice though.

Is anyone else reading/picking this up?

What do you make of the format and experiment?
 
 
Spaniel
19:08 / 08.07.09
I will be buying it when it hits these shores tomorrow. It looks nice. I imagine it will be an enjoyable fetish object.

Think we're planning on giving it a review on Mindless Ones
 
 
Benny the Ball
23:43 / 08.07.09
Well, some of it works incredibly well - The Batman strip seems to pack a lot of emotion into it's one page, The Flash story is beautiful drawn and great fun - some things seem to try too hard to be 'Silver Age FUN!' - some seem to have told their story over 12 pages, but gotten lost in the break up. It is beautiful though.
 
 
Mr Tricks
16:49 / 09.07.09
hurray for Newsprint. I wonder how much of that paper was first run vs. recycled.

It was strange trying to "read it" one page after another. While the individual pieces were over all enjoyable, some better than others, there was next to no real sense of narrative momentum. I guess I was hoping for something a little more ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY.

Most of the pieces seemed to function as a comic page that could exist in a smaller format. Take the Superman feature that will appear in USA Today (?). Of them I found the Wonder Woman piece making the most use of it's format. That one could not have been reduced in size.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
02:56 / 10.07.09
I wonder how much of that paper was first run vs. recycled.

In a sense, it is a bit like novelty toilet paper.
 
 
CameronStewart
05:21 / 10.07.09
I guess I was hoping for something a little more ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY.

Without giving too much away, I share a studio with Karl Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher and I think if you keep reading their Flash story you might get your wish...
 
 
Mr Tricks
21:13 / 10.07.09
Well that's exciting Mr. Stewart just for the opportunity to explore what we all mean by being "a little more like ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY."
 
 
Benny the Ball
02:45 / 11.07.09
The Wonder Woman strip was the only one that I've saved so far, simply because it seemed like it had more going on than the other strips, so I felt fine flicking through them.

I liked most of the stuff, I wasn't totally in love with Supergirl or Metal Men, but will see where they go - the Batman strip was quite charged considering that it was only a page, the Flash strip was fantastic, Superman looked great.

I think it's true that there wasn't much of a feeling of doing something different, a lot of the strips just had bigger pictures and no real sense of tune in next week about them, but I'll follow to see where it goes, 12 weeks, and it looks great, and the strips I liked outweighed those I didn't by a long stretch.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:14 / 11.07.09
Looking forward to reading, and also planning to sell on my eBay store - I'll post the link when I'm done!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:43 / 13.07.09
That's a good point ONT - how much is Wed #1 likely to be worth when everyone's broken, furtive and sixty, plus trying to catch a goddamn break at the Diego convention?

My personal feeling is that I wouldn't feed Weds comics to a pig, actually.
 
 
FinderWolf
22:47 / 11.08.09
Allred art - always great, although the story is thin by Gaiman - panels and pages where almost nothing happens.

Batman by Azz/Risso - fun. Kyle Baker Hawkman - very fun.

The Flash/Iris Allen strips - the most fun and most well-done. Except for the art of Ryan Sook on the Kamandi thing -- Gibbon's story is fine and moves slowly but the art is really the star of the show here. (although it was Gibbons' idea to make it like Prince Valiant, so there you go)

Great concept, great experiment, kudos to Chiarello (who is a damn fine artist/painter in his own right) for actually getting this to happen and see print. Although I am stating to no longer buy 'em to save some cashola. (I got #1-4)
 
 
Benny the Ball
12:43 / 12.08.09
Reaching the mid point, and the strips that worked are still kind of working. Superman has taken a turn for the ugly-stupid-pointless though (the 2nd strip was some weird hybrid of Smallville and Dark Knight that did not work at all).

Flash remains the main draw for me.
 
 
FinderWolf
20:50 / 12.08.09
Yeah, Flash is fantastic. 4 Barry Allens! Superman is pretty crap. Although Bermejo's art is GORGEOUS.
 
  
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