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| I was really excited when I first heard of this new weekly newspaper-sized series. I picked up #1 when it hit stores. I love the format! Unfolding it & holding it up, it brings me back to my childhood when I would digest the Sunday comics page. My beef with the series is the fact that it costs $4 an issue. I read the strips contained in #1, pushed away from the table, & let the experience sink in. While I appreciate the layout & the way the art panels take up the page, I just don't really feel like I'm getting the content for the money. At this rate, if I stuck with it for the 12 week run, I'm gonna blow $48 for complete stories in a format that I'm not even sure will survive the physical elements of time. Newspapers yellow badly over time. I'm only really interested in maybe four of the strips. So far, I've avoided the next three issues. I would love to see more of this kind of newspaper-strip type book in the future, but I would only be willing to pay maybe $2 an ish, if I'm only following certain strips. I'm interested to see how this series will be collected & sold as a trade. Would they shrink it down to a TPB sized book or release a massive newspaper sized slab? Anyone reading Wednesday Comics? Opinions? Am I wrong or just a cheapskate?
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| ...Also, I feel like a distinguished intellect, when sitting on a park bench, reading this. I look like a business executive, checking stock quotes in the Wall Street Journal, until someone gets close enough to see that it's actually Batman, Flash, & Hawkman!
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plormf77 (7/31/2009)
...Also, I feel like a distinguished intellect, when sitting on a park bench, reading this. I look like a business executive, checking stock quotes in the Wall Street Journal, until someone gets close enough to see that it's actually Batman, Flash, & Hawkman! That's funny.
I've bought the first 4 issues, but I've had the same concerns myself,mainly the price. I am enjoying more than 3 of the stories(the only one I really can't stand is the Wonder Woman, and the Teen Titans one is a little boring), but $4 an issue for a weekly seems really high. I agree that $2 seems much more reasonable. I'm sure there are different costs involved due to the format, but you can get a whole newspaper for 75 cents, so it can't be that much. Maybe having to pay that many creators is the problem?
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I have no issues with any aspect of Wednesday Comics.
BTW all books will be $4 each soon enough and only 21-24 of those 32 or so pages are actually story so ....
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oxbladder (8/1/2009)
I have no issues with any aspect of Wednesday Comics.
BTW all books will be $4 each soon enough and only 21-24 of those 32 or so pages are actually story so ....
Am I missing something? Issue #1 has 15 pages of content & 1 advertisement page. Now I really can't justify the cost. $4 for 15 pages?!
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| Yeah, if there was 20+ pages of content, I'd have less of a problem with the price.
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So don't buy it if you have an issue with the price.  Each broadsheet is about 4 pages worth of art.
All I hear is people griping about it ... yet also love it. 
"How do I grade it?"
"It's going to fall apart because it is made of chitty newsprint!"
"$4!!"
Blah, blah, blah.
(BTW news print costs more money to use the last time I checked)
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oxbladder (8/1/2009)
So don't buy it if you have an issue with the price. Each broadsheet is about 4 pages worth of art. All I hear is people griping about it ... yet also love it. "How do I grade it?" "It's going to fall apart because it is made of chitty newsprint!" "$4!!" Blah, blah, blah. (BTW news print costs more money to use the last time I checked) My bad-I thought this was a discussion board. You kniw, where we could discuss comics, not just talk about how great they all are. I never said I LOVE it, just they I enjoy it. And I noted that newsprint costs more, but I just bought a Sunday newspaper for $2 that has dozens and dozens of pages of newsprint. I know it is supplemented by ad revenue, but still...
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The stock newspaper use is lower grade and thinner too. The comic "newsprint" is different and has always been a bit more expensive than standard stock.
As for the whining about this and that of the book. I am not saying you have to like/love it, but if you are spending the money then clearly you don't have an issue with it because if you did then you wouldn't buy it. As I also mentioned each page is pretty close to being an equivalent of four pages of art so it pretty much balances out. For DC I am sure it is not cheap to be printing a broadsheet for ONE title so they have to pass on some of that extra printing cost. IMO you are getting the same bang for your buck as you are on any other book. If you don't like most of the content ... then that is another story and a valid reason to whine ... and more of a reason to maybe keep your dollars in your pocket and the books on the shelf.
In the end voting with your dollars will get you (more) of what you want.
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