Wednesday is the Hidden S' favorite day of the Week...
DC's
Wednesday Comics concept is shaping up to be the most interesting and charming experiment in comic publishing of the year. While online comics continue to make inroads in the comic industry, DC has taken a bold step back to revive a format as old as comics itself: the newspaper comic.
Wednesday Comics are printed in large, newspaper style format which mimics the old Sunday comics that your father and grandfather used to read. This new series has some outstanding comic talent working at the top of their game to put together what promises to be an unbelievably rich reading experience.
The format runs 16 pages per issue and the rundown of creative talent is impressive: Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred on the Metamorpho/The Element Man strip; Kyle Baker working on Hawkman; Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook reviving 70s cult fave Kamandi; Paul Pope on Adam Strange; a Deadman strip by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck; The Kuberts working on Sgt. Rock; Simonson & Stelfreeze working on a Demon/Catwoman team up...the list goes on like this for a while
The most promising strips are the Pope strips which showcase some of Pope's interest in classic Edgar Rice Burroughs spaceman Sci-Fi. Pope's imagery and storytelling bursts off the page and seems both futuristic and old-fashioned at the same time.
Gaiman/Allred's strip is the most interesting in a way because of the opposition of their approach. Gaiman of course is the prince of darkness while Allred works in a Warholian universe of primary colors, simplified silhouettes and breezy storytelling. Simonson's work with Stelfreeze on the Demon/Catwoman arc promises to bring together two of the DC universes' most intriguing anti-heroes.
There are no real duds thus far, either. The Metal Men and Supergirl strips are probably the weakest of the bunch so far and the first Batman strip seems derivative of a 100 rooftop meetings of Batman and Commissioner Gordon. The Superman strip by John Acrudi (writer) and Lee Bermejo (artist) contains one of the most potent and virile depictions of the Man of Steel I have seen in many a year.
What then is the timing of all this about? Could it be a psychological byproduct of the economy being on the ropes? A signal that comics are returning full circle to their modest roots? A sign that handmade and tangible are suddenly Au Courant? Hard to say, but I do know that it is tougher to wait for wednesday...
The Hidden S...
Wednesday is the Hidden S' favorite day of the Week...
DC's Wednesday Comics concept is shaping up to be the most interesting and charming experiment in comic publishing of the year. While online comics continue to make inroads in the comic industry, DC has taken a bold step back to revive a format as old as comics itself: the newspaper comic.
Wednesday Comics are printed in large, newspaper style format which mimics the old Sunday comics that your father and grandfather used to read. This new series has some outstanding comic talent working at the top of their game to put together what promises to be an unbelievably rich reading experience.
The format runs 16 pages per issue and the rundown of creative talent is impressive: Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred on the Metamorpho/The Element Man strip; Kyle Baker working on Hawkman; Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook reviving 70s cult fave Kamandi; Paul Pope on Adam Strange; a Deadman strip by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck; The Kuberts working on Sgt. Rock; Simonson & Stelfreeze working on a Demon/Catwoman team up...the list goes on like this for a while
The most promising strips are the Pope strips which showcase some of Pope's interest in classic Edgar Rice Burroughs spaceman Sci-Fi. Pope's imagery and storytelling bursts off the page and seems both futuristic and old-fashioned at the same time.
Gaiman/Allred's strip is the most interesting in a way because of the opposition of their approach. Gaiman of course is the prince of darkness while Allred works in a Warholian universe of primary colors, simplified silhouettes and breezy storytelling. Simonson's work with Stelfreeze on the Demon/Catwoman arc promises to bring together two of the DC universes' most intriguing anti-heroes.
There are no real duds thus far, either. The Metal Men and Supergirl strips are probably the weakest of the bunch so far and the first Batman strip seems derivative of a 100 rooftop meetings of Batman and Commissioner Gordon. The Superman strip by John Acrudi (writer) and Lee Bermejo (artist) contains one of the most potent and virile depictions of the Man of Steel I have seen in many a year.
What then is the timing of all this about? Could it be a psychological byproduct of the economy being on the ropes? A signal that comics are returning full circle to their modest roots? A sign that handmade and tangible are suddenly Au Courant? Hard to say, but I do know that it is tougher to wait for wednesday...
The Hidden S...
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