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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2009 23:27:36 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2009 23:54:17 GMT
What a fantastic idea!
Depending on what its like, that's the sort of thing that companies should be pushing into other markets rather than just the direct-sale comic store though
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2009 0:27:50 GMT
At last: a good idea from DC.
-Ralph
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Post by karla on Mar 20, 2009 7:57:57 GMT
excellent, i'll keep an eye out.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 20, 2009 15:54:39 GMT
Interesting, interesting.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2009 17:42:14 GMT
Let's just hope DC don't fuck it up by making the stories within the title as impenetrable as most of their current output. I so want this to be good. It'll have to be a barnstormer now comics are so freakin' expensive.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 20, 2009 17:46:09 GMT
Apparently they aren't anything to do with continuity, the aim being to be timelss examples of their characters.
Which makes me happy.
Andy
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Post by legios on Mar 20, 2009 21:48:36 GMT
It is a fascinating idea. A return to the format of the Sunday adventure strip where some of the roots of the superhero comic can be traced to.
As blueshift says, it is the ideal thing for them to get it out into other venues where a mass audience might see it. If anything is going to create a new audience for comics it is going to be something accessible, pacy and exciting. It certainly isn't going to be anything that the conventional comic book is doing. After all, look at the sales figures for the Spiderman issue that guest starred President Obama - a huge sales bump for that one issue, but as near as not one single person stayed for the next issue. They got a huge array of potential new audience and didn't manage to catch any of their interest enough for them to buy even one more issue.
I love the sound of this project - accessible, perhaps even heroic, versions of DC characters. I'd like it to do well and I'd especially like it to do well beyond the ghetto of the comic shop, where it will be at best a curiosity.
DC have taken one interesting step by commissioning it at all. I'd love them to take a further step and actually try to sell it to a mass audience.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 20, 2009 22:36:22 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 16, 2009 14:36:24 GMT
First look at two pages of the project can be found here. Looks damned good! Andy |
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Post by blueshift on Apr 16, 2009 14:53:48 GMT
It does! Though if they will be printing on traditional newsprint, I wonder how the subtle colourings will come out!
Also Wednesday comics is probably a bad name because they only get comics on Wednesday in America. I was expecting the name to change to be honest.
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Post by legios on Apr 16, 2009 20:25:05 GMT
Also Wednesday comics is probably a bad name because they only get comics on Wednesday in America. I was expecting the name to change to be honest. Given that it is being produced by an American comics company with their eye primarily on the US market the title seems fairly sensible to me. Looking at the preview pages it feels more and more like a concious attempt to evoke the spirit of the old weekly adventure strips in the newspapers, so given that that they are falling in with the new publication patterns and releasing it on a Wednesday rather than the Sundays when the old strips ran the title "Wednesday Comics" seems reasonable to me. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 8, 2009 18:39:10 GMT
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Post by legios on Jul 13, 2009 20:20:43 GMT
I haven't bought this as yet - circumstances have kept me away from a comics shop for a fair while - I have now read it. It is a little bit varied, with some creative teams understanding the format a bit better than others. Some of it seems quite good, other bits not so much.
What I think may hurt it a little is the fact that it doesn't, at first glance, feel like it deserves its price point. It is purely a first impression thing, but I think that first impression might end up costing it sales unfortunately. (It also has a problem of being the wrong format for where it is being sold. Folding it into four so it can be shelved with regular comics in a comics shop does not do it any favours. It feels like its natural home should be on the newstand, folded in half).
Karl
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