{"id":659,"date":"2010-10-27T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/27\/comic-book-report-wednesday-comics\/"},"modified":"2010-10-27T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:30:00","slug":"comic-book-report-wednesday-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/27\/comic-book-report-wednesday-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Wednesday Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TLJhuT_WiaI\/AAAAAAABI3A\/FnBfWHLl_6M\/s1600\/dc-wednesday-comics-collection-hc.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TLJhuT_WiaI\/AAAAAAABI3A\/FnBfWHLl_6M\/s320\/dc-wednesday-comics-collection-hc.jpg\" width=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another reason I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fvrl.org\/\">my local library<\/a>: because I can check out oversized hardcovers like this for free, instead of spending $50 and not having bookshelf space for them.<\/p>\n<p>This was DC&#8217;s tribute to the full-page Sunday newspaper comics of yore.  The results are a mixed bag, but definitely worth a look.  There&#8217;s a wide range of storytelling talent and art styles on display here.  Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Metamorpho tale gets a lot of mileage out of tweaking genre tropes and panel layout conventions.  The Wonder Woman pages were too busy for me, visually, but I was pleasantly surprised by the stories featuring lesser-known characters like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamandi\">Kamandi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deadman\">Deadman<\/a>.  And I think someone may finally have found the right tone for a Supergirl story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1401227473?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1401227473\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another reason I love my local library: because I can check out oversized hardcovers like this for free, instead of spending $50 and not having bookshelf space for them. This was DC&#8217;s tribute to the full-page Sunday newspaper comics of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41,51,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artcriticism","category-books","category-comics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}