Wednesday Comics will be a 12-issue series published in the same format as the Sunday comics delivered in newspapers every week. There will be 16 features in every issue, and right now it looks as though each strip will take up an entire 14” x 20” broadsheet page. The impressive roster of talent includes Neil Gaiman, Paul Pope, Brian Azzarello, Kurt Busiek, and Kyle Baker, and the list of characters that will be featured is fairly eclectic.
It's exactly the kind of project an art director would dream up - in this case, DC's Mark Chiarello. Dark Horse did something similar a while back, with its weekly Dark Horse Insider giveaway that featured three half-page strips and a giant poster in every issue. But this is the first time such a project has been done on this scale.
I thought the idea was pretty cool, if for no other reason than it sends comics fans into a tizzy, fretting over fold lines and the non-traditional format. However, I am still unemployed and really can't afford to be picking up any comics right now. And then I saw this preview of Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook's beautiful, Hal Foster-inspired Kamandi:
Dammit. Sold.
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