Wednesday Comics, DC’s new limited run weekly title, has been touted by the company as a bold experiment in the way comics are published. Taking inspiration from the Sunday funny pages, the comic is a large format collection of fifteen strips, all by different creative teams. There are two central questions about the success of the title: does it work as a book, and does it work as an alternative way for DC to publish their comics?
This edition is packed with, well just a couple questions. But one question takes precedence; which dead characters seem destined to rise during “Blackest Night?”
Yeah, this might be a long one. And full of spoilers.
Few comics have had such a tumultuous publishing history in recent years as James Robinson’s Justice League spinoff, Cry for Justice, but setting aside all that controversy, is the book equal to its purpose of giving as an alternate take on the Justice League?
Writer: Judd Winick
Artist: Ian Churchill
Inker: Norm Rapmund
Colourist: Edgar Delgado
Publisher: DC Comics
Let’s get one thing clear. This is a superhero comic.
In every conceivable way, everything you might think a ‘superhero comic’ might entail… Yup, this is it. More accurately, it’s a team book. Even more accurately, it’s an origin story (or re-origin, technically) for a team [...]