When I was a kid my brother and I would fight over the comics section of the paper over breakfast. We each got half, but the fighting would start when one of us was ready for the other half. This situation had a two fold effect. One, you had to decrease your reading speed to the slowest common denominator. And two, you wound up re-reading, almost studying each panel. In the end I learned to slow down, enjoy the comics, and wound up reading every comic on the page (even the ones I didn’t like).

Now DC has launched a new 12 week project called Wednesday Comics. Wednesday Comics features 14′x20′ pages and if the first issue is a preview of what’s to come then you’ll be here every Wednesday. I’ve heard the complaints over the past week. Allow me to retort! Yes, it’s on newsprint, you probably won’t get a mint copy, and yes it’s $3.99. However, it will be the one comic that you’ll look forward to every week. Why? Because Wednesday Comics does something that is nearly unquantifiable. It brings you back to when you didn’t care about continuity, mint condition, variant foil covers, and just wanted to catch up to what the characters you loved were doing. Well, that’s what Wednesday Comics does.  I have a lot of books to read every week in order to keep abreast of everything to keep you informed so I normally power read my way through many of them. Wednesday Comics slowed me down. For some reason I took my time and savored every panel of every page. I even read the stories that I either had no interest in or wasn’t familiar with the characters. All that was missing was my brother at the table complaining that it was time to switch.

Wednesday Comics #1 comes with a money back guarantee. If you don’t like, just bring it back and we’ll refund your money.