I've figured out the perfect analogy for reading Wednesday Comics. It's like when we had really slow dial-up Internet, and you'd have to wait 20 minutes for a single image to load. You saw the image in little tiny increments, which in a lot of ways took away from the image in its entirety when it loaded. Sometimes the power of a work of art is in its immediacy.
There's another problem I've encountered, and it's one that regular newspaper comics wouldn't necessarily run into. As the series was set up as a limited run, with a finite number of issues, each creative team was aware of how many pages they had, and when the story had to end. As a result, every story in this series is hitting its climax right now. It's hard to maintain that level of emotional investment for all of the stories, and this inevitably leads to a lack of emotional investment in any of them.
And yet, I still think I like the series. Perhaps its the characters they've chosen, or just the sheer size of the art. There's something quite wonderful about Wednesday Comics, even though, as a collection of stories, I just don't think it's working that well.
To be continued.
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