So, yesterday I got my comp copies of the upcoming Wednesday Comics hardcover. And since I mentioned it (on my Facebook page, on Twitter), people keep asking how big it is. See the picture? That’s how big it is.
Note: That’s not me, that’s the book’s editor, Mark Chiarello.
Note #2: That’s not the actual book, it’s a mockup—the actual book has real art inside, not that blank page you can glimpse part of. But that’s how big it is, at least.
Note #3: That’s not really a window on the left, just a mostly-convincing poster on Mark’s wall. No, seriously.
Note #4: The book is freakin’ gorgeous. Even the endpapers are stunning. [And if you’ve never been stunned by endpapers, you didn’t get the new edition of The Wizard’s Tale. Shame on you!] The whole book is packed from cover to cover with gorgeous art, parinted nice and huge, printed crisply and beautifully. It’s got two whole new extra strips—pages Mark had done just in case one of us stalwart creative teams blew a deadline, and I bet it came close—a very funny Plastic Man strip by Evan Dorkin and Stephen DeStefano, and a moody, chilling Creeper strip by Keith Giffen and Eric Canete. Plus cool sketchbook stuff, an intro by Mark, those gorgeous endpapers, stuff like that.
I’m proud to be a part of it. I love the way Joe Quinones’s art on our Green Lantern feature printed. I think the story works well all in one wodge, instead of being broken up into chapters. And every time I look at it, I want to thank Pat Brosseau for going with borderless word balloons; it looks great.
And it’s big. That big. See?
[But hey, Chi, about that sketchbook section—Kamandi is a 70s strip, not a 60s strip! Dude! What is wrong with you?! Ruined, I tell you! Book is ruined!]
