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arbre_rieur ([info]arbre_rieur) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-06 19:59:00

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Entry tags:char: adam strange, char: green lantern/hal jordan, title: wednesday comics

More of Wednesday Comics 4
Here are the Green Lantern and Adam Strange strips.



Have people been reading Comic Book Resources' interviews with the Wednesday Comics writers and artists? There's a new one up each week, and they're filled with all sorts of neat behind-the-scenes tidbits.

For example, the one with Kurt Busiek pointed out something that I (and every single review I've read) managed to miss. Lots of folks pointed out that the Kamandi strip was basing itself off of Prince Valiant, but everyone missed that the Green Lantern strip was basing itself off of Mary Perkins, On Stage.

Busiek: Well, every day that I was working on the Green Lantern strip, I would be sitting on the floor of my office with a full-size reproduction of Leonard Starr’s “On Stage” funny pages from the early 1960s all around me. Partly that was because Starr is one the absolute greats in the genre and partly it was because the Green Lantern strip is set in the 1960s and we wanted to capture that feeling. In our case, it’s right down to the lettering. We’re using a font based on Ben Oda’s lettering and Ben Oda was the guy who lettered “On Stage.” So I’m not picking something that as many people are going to recognize as “Prince Valiant” but I was certainly going back to a particular touchstone and that was early 1960s’ Leonard Starr.

Part of that is because Joe Quiñones is so good at doing real people interacting that we wanted to do a story that had a lot that to it and part of it was that it was this jet age, space age storytelling from the Kennedy era, so why not go back and emulate that to some degree?


Here's a neat overview for On Stage that I found online, for the curious: http://profmendez.tripod.com/html/on_stage2.htm



I hear some people balking at the $3.99 price point for Wednesday Comics, but one thing you need to consider is how long it takes the creators to do these giant-sized pages. At the Wednesday Comics panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, they were talking about how time-consuming it can be. Just using the two above pages as an example, Paul Pope mentioned that each of his pages took five days to complete, and Busiek mentioned that the first six pages of Green Lantern took him a day each to write.


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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-08-07 03:46 am UTC (link)
Bill Pullman IS Hal Jordan IN Wednesday Comics!

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[info]fleur_de_liz
2009-08-07 03:55 am UTC (link)
...Oh my God, it's totally true.

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[info]box_in_the_box
2009-08-07 04:20 am UTC (link)
OH GOD THAT'S WHERE THAT NOSE IS COMING FROM

IT LOOKED LIKE IT BELONG ON HAWKMAN'S MASK

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[info]nezchan
2009-08-07 05:11 am UTC (link)
Aside from that, it's the most DETERMINED FLYING I've ever seen.

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[info]box_in_the_box
2009-08-07 05:12 am UTC (link)
TODAY WE CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-08-08 12:27 am UTC (link)
SINESTRO: There's only one Green Lantern who would dare give me the raspberry!

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(Anonymous)
2009-08-07 04:39 am UTC (link)
...Where's the back of her bra? Did Adam take it with him or something?

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[info]darklorelei
2009-08-07 04:55 am UTC (link)
I've been loving the Adam Strange strip. It's so pulptastic!

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-08-07 06:47 am UTC (link)
It's definitely a... different look for Alanna.

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[info]ex_menagerie993
2009-08-07 05:00 am UTC (link)
Pulptastic!!

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[info]kenn_el
2009-08-07 05:21 am UTC (link)
The last one I read each week is Wonder Woman, but each of them has its charms. Metamorpho and Supergirl are the best, though.

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[info]xandertarbert
2009-08-07 08:12 am UTC (link)
You heard me!

"Jordan! I know you know where the Giant is! Tell me! Or I'll have sex with your Mom!"

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[info]demonprawn
2009-08-07 03:14 pm UTC (link)
Conan?

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