Wednesday Comics

DC Comics just announced it's newest weekly comic.

It's not another big continuity event.

It's not about the biggest superheroes.

It's not even about the supervillains.

Really, it doesn't seem to tie into the DC continuity much at all. It's something you wouldn't expect. They're taking chances in a way I never thought they would. It's not just going to feature unique talent or unique stories, it's going to have a unique publishing format.

Enter Wednesday Comics, a 12 issue weekly series starting in the summer. Each issue is going to be 16 pages in length and will be comprised entirely of one page stories, all by well known and well respected creators like Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Kyle Baker, Brian Azzarello, Kurt Busiek, Michael Allred, and a whole bunch of others. Stories will be about characters like Sergeant Rock, Hawkman, and Metapmorpho, and the whole format will harken back to the Sunday comics you used to read as a kid, so you can add a big slavering of nostalgic goodness to some already good stories.

If you ask me, this is exactly the kind of thing DC needs. With so much of their news having been monopolized by big continuity events and with so many star writers being picked up by Marvel instead of DC, it's refreshing to hear that they're getting back to the basics and understand that having quality talent behind the stories is possibly the best predictor of a story being good.

Let's all cross our fingers and hope it doesn't disapppoint.

Source - Robot 6