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kingrockwell (kingrockwell) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-02 15:29:00

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char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry, char: etta candy, char: krypto the superdog, char: streaky the super-cat, char: supergirl/kara zor-el, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: amanda conner, creator: ben caldwell, creator: jimmy palmiotti, publisher: dc comics, title: wednesday comics

Wednesday Comics 6! Only three weeks late!
Yeah, I kind of dropped the ball on the weekly posts, but the scans have so much time between them that my heart went out of it. Dunno whether I'll keep up, but I'm giving up on the showcase-style posts. Instead, here's my two favorite strips from week six.

How fun is this strip? Too much fun! Between Wednesday Comics and their Power Girl title, Palmiotti and Conner have almost a monopoly over Kara's of all world, but the way they do them, I don't think anyone minds. Dig the shell-phone!
And that's the fourth and final strip we can post here, so if you want to continue following Supergirl's adventures, you'll have to read Wednesday Comics!

This strip gets a lot of flak for being cluttered, but it's finally starting to stretch out a bit. It still has more panels than the others, but I'm too busy enjoying it for it to bug me, honestly. Again, guest stars stealing the spotlight, but Etta does so by being delightful and eager where Arthur was more irate and shouty (on his shell phone!).
Anyway, Ben Caldwell's annotations (which have updated even slower than the weekly Wednesday Comics scans!) have mentioned how the strip has handled Diana's first encounters with mortals, and this is really the first positive one. Do you think she could've had a better one, or that Etta's hero-worship is a good counter to Dr. Poison's brutality and Cheetah's scheming?

	jaybee3 2009-09-03 12:51 am UTC (link)
	His last series was still holding its head above water (if you pardon the pun) until OYL came and they made Orin a squid and made some new guy (now gone) Aquaman. The title never recovered from that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-09-03 03:37 am UTC (link)
	No, it wasn't. The title had been slated for cancellation until the OYL revamp was thought up. The revamp was done as an alternative to cancellation (only for the title to be canceled anyway later). (Reply to this) (Parent)