May 102013
Wednesday Comics
This oversized hardcover edition collects the entire critically acclaimed anthology series that reinvented the classic weekly newspaper comics section. It features 16-different stories starring the World’s Greatest Super Heroes including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash, as well as lesser known characters including Metamorpho and Metal Men written and Illustrated by the comic industry’s top talents including including Neil Gaiman (THE SANDMAN), Brian Azzarello and Lee
List Price: $ 49.99
Price: $ 27.67
Amazing Quality, Amazing Characters,
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.
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|Presentation and artwork are fantastic, Stories are so-so.,
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.
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|One of my best purchases,
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.
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