Anybody else reading "Wednesday Comics"?

CHEERS: adam strange, hawkman, flash, kamandi, sgt. rock
JEERS: supergirl, metal men, wonder woman, teen titans
EH: metapmorpho, deadman, batman, superman

i would totally spend $15-20 on a single issue for 24 pages on decent paper at the same size of any of the strips in the "cheers" column. except maybe "kamandi."

the first sgt. rock strip is maybe my fave page of comics in '09 so far.

i kinda like the supergirl art
i've long hated paul pope, but this is the best work I've seen him do.

I hated the Wonder Woman stuff at first too, but something clicked in weeks 4 and 5. I haven't read the last two issues, so maybe it's incomprehensible again.

Okay, I've finally got around to reading one of the four I picked up last week, since I realised another one has come out since - #5 reactions:

Batman is still painfully tedious and monocolour.

Kamandi has exploded into non-Valiant-style colour and action!

Five weeks in and we’re still on Superman’s origin! Have these cunts not read All-Star? The whole John Byrne post-Crisis retcon of not having the Kents die seems to have led to a really horrible dead-end for the grown-up fanboy children that have become the majority of superhero comics writers these days – oh my mummy and daddy didn’t understand my love of staying indoors of writing comics! How wonderful that Superman is able to go home four times a week and have a big sook to his dad about how hard it is to get by in the world as the most famous and powerful person alive, instead of growing up and getting on with flying about and being awesome. I mean, I don’t read any of these things, but I get the impression.

Deadman still visually wonderful but using Boston Brand to have action-packed physical-injury-receiving fight scenes isn’t so inspiring. I find him interesting Quantum Leaping into dudes to sort their shit out, not moping on the astral plane about Rama Kushna.

Metamorpho back to being lolleriffic, hurrah! Great thing even when I didn’t dig is that they try and do something different with the pagespace each week.

Teen Titans – Jebus Christ more lonely fanboy crying about how daddy didn’t pick you up from school! Why not have Kid Flash run fast or Changeling turn into a lion to pull underage tail, you useless bastards?

Strange Adventures is basically a THB page this week! Is Villarubia colourising that for the :01 vaporware editions? That could be non-horrible.

The topper on Supergirl sums up my disappointment with the strip: Amanda Conner drawing of Supergirl looking cranky with a dangling Streaky? FUNNY! Streaky almost killing hundreds of parents and children for no discernible reason? Not too hilarious. Love the post-super-activity exhausted-Supergirl/Krypto licking plane window panel though (and many of the other visual touches).

Has DiDio ever heard actual people talk? Or watched any movie that had a cinema release?

God, I’d love to try and enjoy Little Wonder Woman In Slumberland but the repro still doesn’t work on paper and the lettering is illegible. :(

Baker’s Hawkman is starting to show the signs of having been belted out in two weeks. The insets of 80s-style Baker faces are a tiny nostalgic sweetener though.

Gotta say, I did kind of love the table-of-the-elements joke in Metamorpho in #8 and 9. But the Flash is the real dark-horse winner here.

Have read three of the four I bought last time - went back to the shop today and there's another three of the things out!

It's like they come out every week!

there are ppl in the uk who have to build new homes just to house their 2000ad collection, just sayin

thing is, they don't put out another comic worth going to the shop for EVERY week

so the fuckers build up

who has the time to read this many (okay only a problem cos they're too big to read in bed)

The thing about issue 11 is that everybody's hitting the brakes at the same time and seeking to quickly resolve the story AT THE SAME TIME. It's like eating a big denouement sandwich. I don't even want to think about the next issue. They need to do this as a regular weekly thing and stagger the storylines, like Marvel Comics Presents was (I used to have the first 75 issues of that damn thing!)

I thought some things about #6

:-/ at FM swipe in last Batpanel

Kamandi has now really broken away from the Val homages! Great to see the shift Gibbons and Sook have pulled off here.

Insanely bad storytelling in the Superman – three Mohawk-Sontarans are shown flying in formation, but without panel backgrounds it looks like the og one very slowly approaching Superman, who despite his super-speed just crouches watching for several minutes. Not bothering to see if his parents have been killed by their house blowing up. Some devoted son you are, prick.

Really missing the snappy diner action with big skirts from the first Green Lantern now.

YAY at the activity page Metamorpho (though BOOOOOOO at no counters to cut out! Especially after they are announced!). You can tell that Gaiman (at least – hopefully Allred too) actually grew up reading comics in different forms, not just American superhero pamphlets – his delight at squeezing in so many different aspects of a Sunday supplement is transferable to this reader.

Still no backgrounds on Teen Titans, and now this blue dude is spouting the kind of bullshit racist pidgin English that I found moronically offensive in Marvel books when I was 11, let alone two decades later.

Awesome “TWIST!” in the Adam Strange! Compare with how nothingly predictable the Batman, Superman and Titans strips are – those dudes should all retire in shame. (Then again, Pope should actually put out half the stuff he promises…)

Really like the cartooning in Supergirl this week, love the clam-phone gag, but Aquaman talking like a goombah shat me from the first panel, and then BLATANTLY MADE NO SENSE when they explained it. Can Conner write? Does she really need her boyfriend?

After my disapproval of the first week of Sgt Rock, I’m now kinda loving that it’s almost halfway through and Rock is STILL in the chair getting smacked.

Enjoy the shift from Iris Allen bottomer to Gorilla Grodd bottomer, but would actually rather read about career woman romance struggles than punching, so hope it doesn’t go too far that way.

Still wishing Baker would treat the words in Hawkman with the lack of seriousness he actually brings to the material, instead of DC-sadface-pofacing it up.