More Wednesday Comics!

[kingrockwell]

Again, I come to the table late and have to choose just one! Figure I should consider myself lucky I even got that much, though.

This week I bring you Walt Simonson and Brian Stelfreeze's The Demon and Catwoman!

It was either this or more Flash (though Risso's art on Batman is just lovely this week!), and we might want to save some Flashes for later. Last week was all about introductions, now we're finally getting somewhere as the ball gets rolling!

And for mods' sake, I'm gonna go ahead and keep a count of what's been posted so far:
Hawkman: 2
Superman: 1
Wonder Woman: 1
Supergirl: 1
Metal Men: 1
Flash: 1
Metamorpho: 1
The Demon and Catwoman: 1

One more spot open for this week if you want to post something from this issue!

Comments

[crinosg.insanejournal.com]

Etrigan not rhyming makes me a sad panda.

[kingrockwell]

I feel silly for having just noticed that.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

He didn't start out rhyming. Alan Moore did that. And frankly, only he and a couple others ever managed to make it not sound forced. DCAU Etrigan never rhymed, and after his first line, it didn't bother me. Only writers who are comfortable with it should even try.

[arbre_rieur.insanejournal.com]

It wasn't Moore, it was... Len Wein, I believe? In a DC Comics Presents.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

He did, actually. Just after he'd beaten Klarion:

Robin: What are you going to do with him?

Etrigan: Mother's grief, father's shame, now returns to whence he came.

Robin: What?

Etrigan: He's going to his room.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Over on Facebook, Walt has been commenting on how hard it's been to write Etrigan's rhymes, so I think we can expect the return of the declaiming Demon before too long.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

Brian Stalfreeze is awesome.

[kingrockwell]

Before this, I'd only known him for early Birds of Prey covers he made with Land and liked him well enough. Now I've got these two guys and the Batman Chronicles #5 story parsimonia posted earlier this week, so I can say with confidence that yes, he is.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Uh. Nobody sounds right.

Is the idea of WC to have people who have no idea how these characters sound work on them?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Is the idea of people who read WC not to realize they're out of continuity? As long as it doesn't shit on the characters . . . . let. It. Go.

[arbre_rieur.insanejournal.com]

I agree, but even setting that aside, I don't see how either character sounds wrong here. The Etrigan here is perfectly in-line with Kirby's.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

I am not a DCU fanboy, as you're talking to me like one("Let...it...go"? Uh, it doesn't bug me as much as that), and do not give a single flying fuck about continuity, nor did I say anything about it. I am not talking about continuity. I'm looking at this as basically a casual reader with a familiarity with the characters that is fairly basic. I am saying that, to me, they don't sound right. The question is not whether they sound like any particular version. The question is whether they sound convincingly like the characters. It's not my fault they fall flat. And sound stiff.

There was a time when Moore's rhyming was new. It was weird. But he made me accept it.

[nonners.insanejournal.com]

Oh, I really like the coloring.

[chipsnopotatoes.insanejournal.com]

i'm so glad this catwoman story is out of Gotham and out of continuity. Makes me enjoy it so much more.

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

No one's posting Kamandi. Where is the love ?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

We're kinda underwhelmed by it. Maybe it will improve.

[demonprawn.insanejournal.com]

Really? I thought Kamandi was fantastic.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

I of course meant the royal you.

[rab62.insanejournal.com]

So far, the Kamandi strip remains the only thing I like unreservedly in Wednesday Comics. It's funny how the strip that wears its old school homage most prominently on its sleeve should also be the least self-conscious thing in the entire book. Kamandi is being done by two guys who really understand how comic strip storytelling works, and aren't wrestling with trying to shoehorn comic book story pacing into another medium. Sorry, but to me quite a few of the other strips suffer from precisely that.

Also, picking Prince Valiant as their template was a doubly smart move, because it's a strip Kirby loved and borrowed from pretty freely himself. So it feels natural and gives a sense of a circle being closed, metaphorically speaking.

[nymphgalatea.insanejournal.com]

Motto. I think the Kamandi strip is wonderful (second only to Paul Popes' version of Adam Strange)

[kingrockwell]

I've decided to post different ones each week, likely focusing on the ones that get less love. Next week's could be Kamandi (i passed on it last week since i think the promo was complete with words, so it'd be old hat by now)!

I have been enjoying it, along with each of the other strips, though! (well, Sgt. Rock's taking a bit to catch its stride, but it looks great!)

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

2 supergirls? I know I posted one from the DC source that was wordless? Does that count?

[kingrockwell]

No, I'm not counting the promos, but I could swear superfan1's post had the Supergirl strip for this week in it! The only remaining evidence is the cut text advertising two scans when only one shows up.
I guess it was editted out?

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

Oops forgot to edit the cut text, sorry. :)

[kingrockwell]

Yeah, it got cut, so there's now another spot open for this week's issue!

[retro_nouveau.insanejournal.com]

Hee hee, he doesn't need alarms for a thief that knocks over every other suit of armor on the way out. I like how she tiptoes out the great wooden doors as she passes the pile of iron.

I wonder what Selina smells like. Albacore? Scampi? Catnip?

Curses on me for not getting this before they sold out.

[kingrockwell]

The "after all these years" line makes me think it wasn't Selina he was talking about, but perhaps whoever hired her to steal that artifact (my money's on Morgaine le Fay)

[darklorelei.insanejournal.com]

I'm totally for saving Flashes for later. I am LOVING that strip. The last panel of this week's KILLED me.