Sunday super-hero funnies on Wednesdays? That's DC's plan

March 20, 10:38 AMComics ExaminerBrian Steinberg

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Some might say the Sunday full-color funnies section is an anachronism in these days when anyone can read comics online and newspapers are able to offer fewer and fewer choices. So it strikes me as a little odd that DC Comics is going to start offering a fold-out broadsheet of super-hero funnines that it calls "Wednesday Comics."

Read it here at Newsarama:  DC intends to make available "a new 12-part weekly series launching this summer that will be presented in a 14” x 20” broadsheet format and will have to be unfolded and opened to be read." Among the characters who will star are Batman, Adam Strange, Metamorpho, Teen Titans and Supergirl.

I suppose its worth checking out. Though I can't figure out for the life of me how anyone is going to store these things. Wouldn't it be easier to follow these comics if they were offered via the Web and cost maybe a dollar a week? What's that? You wouldn't pay to follow them on the Web? Then why would DC think you'd want to follow them in print?

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