By: E&P Staff The first issue of DC Comics' 12-week anthology series "Wednesday Comics" hits comic bookstores today, in a move meant to recall the days when superheroes patrolled the pages of the Sunday newspaper.
To mark the occasion, today's edition of USA Today will feature a full-page "Superman" comic strip, and the paper will promote "Wednesday Comics" every week in its print edition.
"Wednesday Comics" will publish for 12 weeks in a broadsheet format and will include 15 different stories. "It's either old-fashioned or it's cutting edge, or it's a little bit of both," Dan DiDio, executive editor of DC Comics, told New York's Daily News.
Some of the highlights of "Wednesday Comics" include a new Superman story drawn by painter Lee Bermejo; a "Batman" strip written by Brian Azarello and drawn by Eduardo Risso; an update of the 70s character "Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth" by "Watchmen" co-creator Dave Gibbons; and the return to superhero comics of "Coraline" author Neil Gaiman, who will collaborate with artist Mike Allred on "Metamorpho."
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