October « 2010 « The Comics Journal

A while ago I took a look at Wednesday Comics, the 12-week project designed to put DC characters in serialized stories meant to resemble, through their 14″ x 20″ pages, the continuing adventure strips of old Sunday funnies sections. The title’s second iteration, a hardcover compilation, assembled all chapters of all 15 stories, many done by industry stalwarts.

Back then I pronounced the collection an artist’s showcase and tried to support that by focusing on a trio of best uses of the novel form and the single, surprising worst. I thought it could stand as my final word on the subject.

And then I started to dream.

We Hate You, Alan Moore

Posted by Noah Berlatsky on October 7th, 2010 at 7:55 AM

At HU, we hate Alan Moore too. Because he has a dumb beard. And not enough long boxes.

Journalista for Oct. 7, 2010: Every single mistake

Posted by Dirk Deppey on October 7th, 2010 at 5:37 AM

Cleveland cartoonist Conrad Day dies ♦ Will Libya apply sharia law to Graphic.ly? ♦ more

Sweet Spot: Mome Vol. 19

Posted by Rob Clough on October 7th, 2010 at 12:01 AM

In #19, Reynolds shifted gears and used fewer but longer entries to put together perhaps the single best issue of the entire series (only #12 surpasses it in my estimation). Beyond its quality, Mome 19 also seems to be the issue that best reflects Reynolds’ taste as an editor. Reynolds has always been more on the underground side of the fence than in the literary fiction camp when it comes to comics. This issue’s mix of the transgressively funny, pulpish noir, surrealism, scatology and innovation was sequenced in such a way that every transition from story to story was nearly seamless. More importantly, the stories frequently complemented each other in a way that acted as a form of editorial storytelling on its own.