I've been trying to figure out why it is that I just don't have a lot to say about this series. It could be that it's because I'm blogging and reading it at a very busy time - some days, I'll admit, I just don't want to write anything about the comic I'm doing. But I feel like there's been an unusual preponderance of posts for Wednesday Comics that I haven't felt like writing.
But what I think it might actually be is the format itself. A single page of a story isn't really that much to talk about. I could perhaps go on about the art, but, if we're to be honest, the art is the side of comics that I know the least about. Narrative is kind of my jam. And while the pages are pushing their respective stories ahead, each story is so short that these page-by-page installments might actually be too short to offer much insight into their respective plots. Perhaps we need just slightly more information. This might be why Ben Caldwell's "Wonder Woman" works relatively well, despite my earlier misgivings, because it manages to include so very much on one page. There's an arc to the chunk of narrative that's presented in that strip.
Perhaps. Whatever it is, I'll finish out the series, but I'm not really getting too much out of it. I'm tempted to re-read the stories in completion to see if I appreciate it more. I'll let you know how that turns out.
To be continued.
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