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@ Pop Dose-- a review of Wednesday Comics

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The biggest stumbling block in Wednesday Comics seems to be its traditional approach to comic book story. The weakest stories are the ones that look and read like they could have simply been a 12-page backup in a character’s book. Batman, Superman, the Metal Men and the Demon all feel like conventional stories — generally good, but conventional. But where the storytellers can really use the page, where they successfully adapt their storytelling and pacing to the page format, that’s when the story and art of Wednesday Comics is spectacular. Pope’s pulply Adam Strange, Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook’s Prince Valiant-like Kamandi, Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Connor’s Supergirl, Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck’s Deadman or the wonderfully sublime Metamorpho by Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred all successfuly embrace the format and create fantastic stories with the pages they’re given. These are the stories that make this more than just an oversized art book.

You can read the full review of Wednesday Comics at Pop Dose.