Wednesday Comics is a perfect distillation of
super-hero nostalgia.
DC's decades-old stable of characters are in themselves enough to evoke nostalgia. But the format used predates those characters and taps into America's rich history of newspaper cartoon strips. It would seem to naturally repudiate the currently favored "decompressed" storytelling style, and it forces the artist to effectively maximize use of the one-page chapter while minimizing concerns about composing coherent long form visual narratives.
Anyway, here are my three favorite pages in no particular order:
Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. by
Adam Kubert and
Joe Kubert
Adam Strange: Strange Adventures by
Paul Pope and
Jose Villarrubia
Metamorpho The Element Man by
Neil Gaiman,
Mike Allred,
Laura Allred and
Nate Piekos
And my honorable mentions:
Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth by
Dave Gibbons and
Ryan Sook
Hawkman by
Kyle Baker
Wonder Woman by
Ben Caldwell
Deadman: The Dearly Departed Detective by
Dave Bullock,
Vinton Heuck,
Jared Fletcher and
Dave Stewart
