With all the hubbub around DC Comics’ latest weekly series, Wednesday Comics, I thought I’d show you some teaser art that’s been surfacing from some of the creators in question:
Sean Galloway (of Spectacular Spider-Man fame), on Teen Titans:
Kyle Baker, on Hawkman:
Joe Quinones, on Green Lantern:
and Ben Caldwell, on Wonder Woman:
…Now discuss.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 am
Wow. Can tell they’re targeting the younger audiences with this one.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 am
Wonder Girl’s outfit looks weird, too many layers.
Other than that, everything looks good.
Still won’t pay $3 for a newspaper though.
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:07 am
Dearie Lord. Well, the GL stuff looks OK-ish.
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:11 am
Is Galloway just doing the designs or is he illustrating the book?
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:13 am
Ohhhhh. That name is never going to stop messing me up. I’m digging this art.
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 am
Blue Beetle has the best boots.
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
“Is Galloway just doing the designs or is he illustrating the book?”
From his blog, which is linked in the original article: “The story I’m working on is a 12 pager.”
So yes.
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:21 am
Caldwell’s take on Wonder Woman looks interesting. For the rest, while I don’t actively dislike anything there, I’m indifferent to either the art or the characters on each of them.
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:59 am
No one can make that Bluebeetleborg suit look good.
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:28 am
That Titan’s art reminds me of the animated series.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Love the Hawkman art, the rest I’m a little indifferent about until I see actual completed work.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
joe quiniones is great i can’t wait for his green lantern
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
“Wow. Can tell they’re targeting the younger audiences with this one.”
You say that as if it’s a BAD thing.
If this thing is reasonably priced, it could be a real hit.
IF they can get it into the hands of new readers.
This DESPERATELY needs publicity to the mainstream.
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I’d rather have a young Alan Scott, but with Hal fronting one of the best selling books and the upcoming movie its better to have him. Really excited to see the takes on many of these, but especially Hawkman.
Because of Teen Titans Go (and all the color) I think that artist will work well. He’ll at least have more pallet room to breath than Spidey’s red and blue.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Some of the other stuff I’ve seen is edgier, more adult – oriented. The cartoony stuff doesn’t interest me, personally, but that’s a GOOD thing. This project SHOULD be diverse. A little something for everyone, just like the Sunday funnies it’s patterned after. I wasn’t planning on reading the Wonder Woman pages anyway.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
The Wonder Woman stuff strays quite far from the mainstream comic while the others are pretty close to their originals. I wonder why.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
TEEN Titans actually looking like kids and not college grads. What a novel concept!
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I’m gonna get two, but I’ll have to drop something from the bottom from my ‘stack’ …non DC of course. The second one is to pass on to others.
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
This is the first thing thats gotten me truly excited about something in a long time. If its $5 or under, I’ll be in for the entire run!
March 23rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Gee, It’s too bad DC won’t let artists like this on their regular monthly titles. I haven’t collected any DC titles in over a year because of the “Jim Lee” house style they’ve adopted on most of the books.
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:17 pm
They had me at “Ben Caldwell”. Not to take away from any other creator but I buy anything he does. With him on Wonder Woman… well, his art on the youth novel Wonder Woman: The Contest left me wanting to see him handle her in sequentials. Now I can! I win!
Egg Embry
http://www.ComicsByEgg.com
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
For sheer intrigue this just about has to be assured to surpassing the last couple of weekly series. Another creative triumph for DC, methinks. Spectacular!
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:10 pm
@ Seraphex:
Considering the other artists they have on tap for this project, Eduardo Risso, Ryan Sook, Mike Alred, Lee Bermejo, and Joe Kubert, it would seem that the audience they are targeting for this is “children of all ages”.
I, for one, cannot wait for this ‘Wednesday’ to come.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:17 am
this art looks awesome.
This is the type of thing DC needs to get into Supermarket Checkout Lanes.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Looks great. Really looking forward to this. As a side note, I think it’s hilarious how 10 percent of the audience is profoundly perplexed by the ramifications of the format – HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO PRESERVE THIS IN MY COLLECTION???
May I suggest, just read the things, and pass them along to someone who might enjoy them but would never see them otherwise?
March 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am
“HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO PRESERVE THIS IN MY COLLECTION???”
This should not be preserved. This should be handed around and read until it dossolves like the books in George Pal’s The Time Machine.
As for the reprint, I’m hoping for a ridiculously oversized book like Scott McCloud did for the first printing of DESTROY! or the one done years back of captain marvel and the Monster Society of Evil.
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