Wednesday Comics #10 (OF 12)
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WEDNESDAY COMICS, DC's new, 12-issue weekly series, reaches its incredible conclusion in September. Here are just some of the highlights of this third and final month:
- In BATMAN, WEDNESDAY COMICS' weekly cover feature, Bruce Wayne digs further into a steamy murder mystery. It's a classic noir tale by the Eisner Award-winning 100 BULLETS team of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso.
- METAMORPHO dives into a fever-dream of an adventure, written by New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman with art by Eisner Award-winner Michael Allred (Madman).
- THE DEMON AND CATWOMAN make a deadly detour after Selina Kyle attempts to rob Jason Blood's collection of antiquities, taking her into unexpected territory. Written by Walter Simonson (Thor, MANHUNTER) with art by famed DC cover artist Brian Stelfreeze.
- DEADMAN is warned off of pursuing a serial killer by the only being who could do so: Rama Kushna. It's a tale of mystery and mystics written by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck, art by Dave Bullock.
- KAMANDI explores the living nightmare that is the world after the Great Disaster in a sprawling tale written by Dave Gibbons (WATCHMEN, GREEN LANTERN CORPS) with art by Ryan Sook (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL).
- The feathers fly as HAWKMAN heads into slam-bang action, as written and illustrated by Kyle Baker (PLASTIC MAN, Special Forces).
- SGT. ROCK is captured by German forces - but will the Rock break? Find out in a gritty wartime epic written by Adam Kubert (SUPERMAN: LAST SON) and ilustrated by legendary comics artist Joe Kubert.
And don't miss these continuing features:
- THE METAL MEN, written by Dan DiDio with art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.
- THE FLASH, written by Karl Kerschl (TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE, THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE) and Brenden Fletcher with art by Karl Kerschl.
- SUPERGIRL, written by Jimmy Palmiotti (JONAH HEX) with art by Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL).
- GREEN LANTERN, written by Kurt Busiek (TRINITY, ASTRO CITY) with art by Joe Quiñones (TEEN TITANS GO!).
- SUPERMAN, written by John Arcudi (The Mask) with art by Lee Bermejo (JOKER).
- ADAM STRANGE, written and illustrated by Paul Pope (BATMAN: YEAR 100).
- WONDER WOMAN, written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell (Dare Detectives).
- THE TEEN TITANS, written by Eddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway.
WEDNESDAY COMICS will arrive in stores folded twice to 7" x 10".
Size: 16 Pages
Price: $3.99
Reviews
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| powerdad | 09/11/09 | No | Read Review |
| TheNextChampion | 09/10/09 | No | Read Review |
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Since it's coming out on Thursday I will be calling this 'Thursday Comics' for the week.
I can't wait to see how awesome a T.Rex/Hawkman fight is gonna be.
Posted by TheNextChampion on 09/08/09 at 02:56 PM
Should be a good time.
Posted by PraxJarvin on 09/08/09 at 03:16 PM
@TNC-That joke is really only funny once. ;)
Posted by drakedangerz on 09/08/09 at 03:53 PM
Am I the only one that thinks the art in the last couple of Kamandi pages haven't been up to snuff, compared to the previous weeks?
Posted by WinTheWonderboy on 09/08/09 at 03:53 PM
If you had told me 10 weeks ago that I would be this excited about the end of this series I would have been shocked. I fully expected this to contain a bunch of relatively low quality stories plastered to a newspaper page, not the extremely well designed and realized product we actually received.
Posted by stuclach on 09/08/09 at 04:44 PM
@win I can't really say I noticed a marked difference. I thought the last two pages we had were colored a bit darker than they should have been (especially on this paper quality.)
Posted by PraxJarvin on 09/08/09 at 06:12 PM
i haven't actually read this for 7 weeks. That's not a bad thing. It's very nice to look at
Posted by edward on 09/08/09 at 09:36 PM
Kerschal's Flash would make an awesome superhero sit-com
Posted by Heroville on 09/08/09 at 11:22 PM
Wouldn't it be awesome if they planned ahead and realized this would come out on Thursday and thus retitled it for this week? Yes. That would be awesome.
Posted by redlibertyx on 09/09/09 at 07:43 AM
@Edward - That is actually a rather large compliment for the artists. To continue to buy $4 issues simply for the art is very indicative of the quality of said art. I agree that some of these strips are absolutely beautiful.
Posted by stuclach on 09/09/09 at 08:21 AM
This was good, although it seems like a lot of these strips ended with only two more to go.
Highlights: Hawkman taunting the T-Rex, Java admitting he likes Broccoli, Risso's art for Batman, Berjemo's take on Superman's Heat Vision.
Lowlights: Wonder Woman of course. Demon and the Cat was pretty pointless. Sgt. Rock is also pretty medicore.
Posted by TheNextChampion on 09/10/09 at 04:35 PM
I liked Green Lantern this week. Go figure.
I liked that Deadman climaxed already.
I find it hillarious that Sgt. Rock could've been done in half the strips with almost no modifications.
Posted by miyamotofreak on 09/11/09 at 03:50 AM
@miyamoto: I liked it how wrong that Deadman comment sounds :)
Posted by TheNextChampion on 09/11/09 at 02:38 PM
A bit late, but never dated: Prax's Patented Ratings:
The Great: Kamandi (Lions and Tigers and Guns, oh my. Excellent again. Give Gibbons a Kamandi book now.); Deadman (Fantastic. Bit worried there's still 2 weeks to cover, but awesome); Algon [nee Metamorpho] (Fantastic again. So strange, so funny, so good.); Strange Adventures (I love this new take on Adam Strange. Curious to see where it goes.); Supergirl (Simple, but good.); Flash (Beautiful yet again.)
The Good: Green Lantern (Totally picked up this week. Shame it hasn't been at this level all 10 weeks.); Metal Men (Good stuff. THe art was fantastic this week. Loved the frantic crowd spilling out of the panel.); Hawkman (Awesome. "Look what I can do!")
The Mediocre: Batman (Batman killed a dog! What the hell!?); Demon/Catwoman (Kind of lost it this week.)
The Bad: Superman ("Can you read my mind? Do you know what it is you do to me?" Bermejo's art is stellar , except for an off-Supergirl face, but the story is bland.); Teen Titans (What the what? Teen Nazis?); Wonder Woman (I just don't care anymore. Looks great.); Sgt. Rock (Unnecessary.)
Special Bonus: Algon's little speech says: "Rex, the element man, is dead. Element girl is dead. I am King of the World."
Posted by PraxJarvin on 09/13/09 at 08:56 PM
@Prax: Darn I was hoping Algon's speech was going to be funny.
Or like Java, that he liked Broccoli
Posted by TheNextChampion on 09/13/09 at 09:02 PM
@Prax-I found it disturbing that you could see the outline of Supergirl's left nipple in the Superman page.
I've enjoyed this series, but it has taught me that I would not be able to do a weekly series like 52. I enjoy reading this, but can't imagine investing in it for a whole year. It's just not for me.
Posted by drakedangerz on 09/14/09 at 12:04 AM
@Drake I have to say, I did 52 and enjoyed it. It was tough, and I only just barely made it to the shop some weeks to keep it "weekly" but I truly loved it. I couldn't do that for Countdown or Trinity though.
Posted by PraxJarvin on 09/14/09 at 01:29 AM
@Prax-Yeah, I'm sure it would be much easier for me to say yes to a series like that if I absolutely loved everything about the series, or at least most of it.
Posted by drakedangerz on 09/14/09 at 12:08 PM
Only 3 to go!
Looking forward to Metamorpho the most.
Posted by miyamotofreak on 09/08/09 at 02:49 PM