Wednesday Comics [Hardcover]

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Batman	Superman	Sketch Commentaries by Eduardo Risso and Lee Bermejo	Strange Adventures	Supergirl

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Starred Review. The spirit of wide-eyed adventure that has been largely missing from today's comics world comes back with a vengeance in this compilation of DC's 2009 retro-themed series. Originally printed on newspaper broadsheets, appropriate to its prewar pulp roots, each of the series' dozen issues featured one-page installments from 15 different original tales with heroes culled from the DC back catalogue. Though selections range from the preadolescent goofy (Dan Didio's Metal Men, Jimmy Palmiotti's Supergirl) to the surreal (Neil Gaiman's tongue-in-cheek Metamorpho, Paul Pope's Adam Strange), the operative word is action. With few exceptions, the Wednesday Comics feature enough two-fisted, exclamation-heavy action to satisfy any easily bored kid or adult—Dave Gibbons's take on Jack Kirby's Kamandi (The Last Boy on Earth!) is particularly rousing, heroic stuff, a postapocalyptic Prince Valiant. Some of the comics do less well; Joe and Adam Kubert's Sgt. Rock is particularly rote, as is Brian Azzarello's thin Batman story, which is at least energetically drawn by Eduardo Risso. But on the whole, this is a thrilling piece of work, re-energizing past classics without losing the spark that made them special in the first place. (May)
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (June 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401227473
• ISBN-13: 978-1401227470
• Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #4,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Quality, Amazing Characters, June 2, 2010

By	Luis Perez - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Wednesday Comics (Hardcover)

If you are a fan of any of the characters in this book you should really do yourself a favor and check this out. These stories are all told in a great narrative unique to the different stories, the unique page structure builds on top of that. The book itself is great quality the pages are crisp, the binding is sewn and the book can lie flat perfectly. Finally some of these pages really take shape when you sit them next to each other. When they were being released in issues you only got one page and unless you took your comics apart the pages never truly lie next to each other. The most prominent case of this is with the Metamorpho chapter, the periodic table of elements looks just great.

All in all it really is another successful DC experiment and really shows and reminds us that DC can still be a lot of fun.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my best purchases, June 4, 2010

By	Matt Spelts - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Wednesday Comics (Hardcover)

I ordered a copy of Wednesday Comics and was amazed at how big the box is it came in. An absolutely beautiful book well worth the money I spent on the book. Well worth the price Amazon is asking. A must for any comics lover and especially those that appreciate the artistic nature of the books themselves.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Presentation and artwork are fantastic, Stories are so-so., June 23, 2010

By	J. Zavala "Architect by day, masked crime fig... (Georgetown, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Wednesday Comics (Hardcover)

Let me start off by saying this is an incredibly beautiful and large book. The art is some of the best and truly unique I've seen in comics to date. To me, the only real downfall is how the stories fit in with the rest of the book. Wednesday Comics ran for 12 weeks (one page per week per story). So basically each story is only 12 pages long and each page needed to sustain the reader each week. I never felt like it was enough time to flesh out anything meaningful. I don't blame the writers as there were some amazing talent on this project (i.e Brian Azzarello). I blame the format. If it wasn't for the giant artwork, I don't think any of these stories would have been worth the time to read. Especially individually. This book is really just the sum of its parts.