DC Announces 'Wednesday Comics'

[General Grievous]

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

scoop cunningham strikes again!



DiDio listed off names of some of the other creators joining Baker, Gaiman and Allred on Wednesday Comics: Brian Azzarello, Paul Pope, Walt Simonson, Dave Bullock, Dave Gibbons, Ryan Sook, John Arcudi, Lee Bermejo, Joe Kubert, Ben Caldwell, Kurt Busiek, Eddie Berganza, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Karl Kerschel. More will

[spidervenom]

This is a pretty cool Idea. Glad to see you involved, Kurt. I wish you the best of luck.

[Mr.EZ]

DiDio listed off names of some of the other creators joining Baker, Gaiman and Allred on Wednesday Comics: Brian Azzarello, Paul Pope, Walt Simonson, Dave Bullock, Dave Gibbons, Ryan Sook, John Arcudi, Lee Bermejo, Joe Kubert, Ben Caldwell, Kurt Busiek, Eddie Berganza, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Karl Kerschel. More will

Oooh. Ooooooooooooooh.

I will have no money anymore after this.

[K-DoG7p7]

Finally, DiDio stated that the stories in Wednesday Comics, will not take place in current DC Comics’ continuity, but rather will be accessible by any and all readers.
All-Star newspapers?

[shrike]

This idea sounds... pretty cool, actually.

A bit sad its not continuity bound, but oh well.

[Black Atom]

Did I miss a link or something? Where's the original story?

[Mr.EZ]

Did I miss a link or something? Where's the original story?

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/030919-Wednesday-Comics.html

[General Grievous]

sorry, deleted it out of my first post by mistake

http://www.newsarama.com/

[scout1279]

Man, all those creators sound friggin' awesome, which pisses me off. I was looking forward to not buying a weekly.

[K-DoG7p7]

Man, all those creators sound friggin' awesome, which pisses me off. I was looking forward to not buying a weekly.

Well its not a year long thing :P

[4thHorseman]

This sounds pretty awesome. Looking forward to it.

[mgs]

ah, while cool, this is certainly not an original idea. I mean, Dark Horse Comics did this years ago! (with Dark Horse Presents)

[escapegoat]

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

scoop cunningham strikes again!



DiDio listed off names of some of the other creators joining Baker, Gaiman and Allred on Wednesday Comics: Brian Azzarello, Paul Pope, Walt Simonson, Dave Bullock, Dave Gibbons, Ryan Sook, John Arcudi, Lee Bermejo, Joe Kubert, Ben Caldwell, Kurt Busiek, Eddie Berganza, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Karl Kerschel. More will

Actually, Rich Johnston scoped this out long ago in Lying in the Gutters.


That said...this is still pretty cool.

[K-DoG7p7]

Actually, Rich Johnston scoped this out long ago in Lying in the Gutters.


That said...this is still pretty cool.

long ago... like last week? (or was it two weeks ago)
or 2 months ago when I first heard the rumor?

[JKCarrier]

A bit sad its not continuity bound, but oh well.

Staying away from the current DC Emo-verse is a huge advantage, as far as I'm concerned. Looking forward to seeing it.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

What an unbelieveably cool idea.

Maybe I'll have something new to read on the commutes to work.

[RachelEvil]

Oh. Fuck. Yes.

[shrike]

Does anyone know what they will cost?

[MacQuarrie]

This idea sounds... pretty cool, actually.

A bit sad its not continuity bound, but oh well.

That's what makes it good.

[Typo Lad]

Now this, right here, is a comic I will not wait for the trade on.

I need to set a pull list up just for this.

Death to continuity.

[KevinTBrown]

Does anyone know what they will cost?

Not yet, but based on the talent alone it's going to be a bargain regardless.

[Sean Walsh]

All-Star newspapers?

But on time!


(Although I guess one could argue that newspapers are daily and so this coming out once a week is still late......but the rest of us punch that person for being such a negative nancy...)

[Chris Hansbrough]

this is probably the best thread I've seen talking about this book. The rest I've seen make me sad to love comics when it's comments about "I only buy comics because of continuity" or "countdown and trinity suck". makes me want to smash my head against a brick wall. to me the book sounds amazing. one page = one whole huge page. no tiny panels, giant prety art. That makes Chris Smile. Mike Allred and Gaiman makes me smile, yle baker hawkdude super large makes me smile. this to me is awesome. one page - one strip, one page per issue, I'm hoping it's cheaply produced on pewspaper paper and it's all going on my wall if it is. especially if it's the price of a paper. cheap and awesome.

[Infra-Man]

Just when I was going to cut back even more, they throw this at me.

[EdContradictory]

Where will this be available?

In comic shops? In actual newspapers?

[NickThompson]

But comics come out on a Thursday here :frown:





Not sure on the format, but I'm interested.

[MacQuarrie]

Metamorpho (linked to Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred)
Oh hell yes. Metamorpho is finally going to see some of his potential realized.

[mgs]

Where will this be available?

In comic shops? In actual newspapers?
the way Dark Horse did it was to simply release it to comic book shops in the direct market, same as comics.

[Lester C.]

This isn’t going to end well. Innovation and new ideas rarely work in the direct market at least from what I’ve seen.

[Chris Hansbrough]

Oh hell yes. Metamorpho is finally going to see some of his potential realized.

and then people are going to bitch about how it's terrible because of experimenting

[MacQuarrie]

This isn’t going to end well. Innovation and new ideas rarely work in the direct market at least from what I’ve seen.
Screw the direct market. Maybe the other 98% of the country might want to read a comic.

[MacQuarrie]

and then people are going to bitch about how it's terrible because of experimenting

"Never retreat, never retract, never apologize; get the thing done and let them howl." - Ben Bradlee

[Lester C.]

Screw the direct market. Maybe the other 98% of the country might want to read a comic.

The problem with that is that they want to read Magna or trades not the monthlies or the weeklies for that matter. Don’t get me wrong, I want this to be a huge success as I love everyone involved. I just don’t think it will, is all.

[MacQuarrie]

The problem with that is that they want to read Magna or trades not the monthlies or the weeklies for that matter. Don’t get me wrong, I want this to be a huge success as I love everyone involved. I just don’t think it will, is all.

That's not true.

They want to read COMICS. Manga and trades are all that's available to the general public. Comic shops are off their radar.

Kids don't read manga because it's manga; they read it because it has exciting stories in a variety of genres that American comics won't touch. They read manga because it's the only game in town. It's not the format. It's the stories. It's always the stories.

[Bat-Reader]

the creative names involved with this project are absolutely stunning. Even if it doesn't sell very well in it's original format, people will probably be all over it when all of the stories collected in tpb etc.

I know i will. :D

Though i'm a forener, if i had a comic shop which regularly bring monthly issues, i would have gotten them in their newspaper size ? format.

[oddballuk]

I've been in love with the idea of this project for a while.

When CBR revealed a Gaiman/Allred Metamorpho story for a special project after Kyle Baker had already been posting Hawkman art on his blog for a project, I imagined it would be related and form an anthology of some kind.

Then Baker revealed in an interview that his story was for a book called "Wednesday Comics" involving Mark Chiarello and I knew immediately that this would be the next weekly and that it would be awesome (has any project headed by Chiarello not been awesome?).

The more rumours I heard, the more excited I got and now the official announcement really has me excited as the talent involved is even better than i'd imagined and the oversized, newspaper style format just sounds cool.

However much this costs, i'll be happy to pay it.

[West Mantooth]

New art including WW
http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/03/23/more-wednesday-comics-art-surfaces/
http://www.badlibrarianship.com/2009/03/wednesday-comics.html

Is that Dr. Poison?
Edit: Yeah it's her

http://purgetheory.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

[Stressfactor]

This all looks good although there is a tiny little corner of me that is disappointed that there is no Aquaman here. It seems to be this would be the perfect place for him -- Outside-of-continuity-"classic" versions of characters? What better place to let a writer and artist play around with good old Arthur? Plus, if it proved popular... hey ho an ongoing we go!

[scout1279]

This all looks good although there is a tiny little corner of me that is disappointed that there is no Aquaman here. It seems to be this would be the perfect place for him -- Outside-of-continuity-"classic" versions of characters? What better place to let a writer and artist play around with good old Arthur? Plus, if it proved popular... hey ho an ongoing we go!

I didn't think of this, but now I'm disappointed too. :frown:

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

The first solicit arrives:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090420-dc-july-2009-solicitations.html

[KevinTBrown]

The first solicit arrives:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090420-dc-july-2009-solicitations.html

Cue the bitching that it's "only" 16 pages for $3.99,

[Aspield]

I think the concept is brilliant, and I have it eagerly on my pull list. DC's prior experiments with weekly comics were a little (IMO) weak.

Of course, it could all fall apart in the execution, but I'm willing to give it a go. Hope it fits right in the racks.

[Aspield]

Cue the bitching that it's "only" 16 pages for $3.99,

Of course, the plots of most of the books falling off my pull list are probably only 16 pages (or less) too. At least in depth.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Cue the bitching that it's "only" 16 pages for $3.99,

I'd have figured Didio writing a Metal Men feature would've taken care of that.

[General Grievous]

The talent alone is worth the price.

Neil Gaimen, Azzarello, allred,busiek, gibbons.

[Weetomuncher]

I actually thought Wednesday Comics was going to be cheaper than a normal $2.99 book, rather than at the 'special' $3.99 level.

That translates to £3 for me in the UK.

That hardly seems like an attempt to break the mass market.

[Cayman]

I'd have figured Didio writing a Metal Men feature would've taken care of that.

There's a few WTF names in there. Didio, Berganza, Palmiotti.

[General Grievous]

There's a few WTF names in there. Didio, Berganza, Palmiotti.

Palmiotti writes Jonah hex which is critically acclaimed. he wrote some awesome uncle sam stories a couple years back and he has been giving the powergirl ongoing which has to be good as she is a very pop character and it can't fail.

[Cayman]

Palmiotti writes Jonah hex which is critically acclaimed. he wrote some awesome uncle sam stories a couple years back and he has been giving the powergirl ongoing which has to be good as she is a very pop character and it can't fail.

I'm familiar with his work.

[4PointOh]

The colors in the Wonder Woman piece are kind of...weird.

[Chris Hansbrough]

Palmiotti writes Jonah hex which is critically acclaimed. he wrote some awesome uncle sam stories a couple years back and he has been giving the powergirl ongoing which has to be good as she is a very pop character and it can't fail.

no. Palmiotti and Justin Gray write those books. not Palmiotti. just saying. it's a different story when one is alone. Palmiotti and Gray are critically acclaimed team. palmiotti is a myserious force that on his own could be awesome or couled be not awesome

[West Mantooth]

it can't fail.


Oh, boy. Where's this burst of assurance coming from?

[West Mantooth]

The colors in the Wonder Woman piece are kind of...weird.

It's supposed to be some kind of dream state.