This one is offbeat and retro enough that I wanted to discuss it here, or at least start a thread on it. It's a beautiful idea, even if I think it will read better after we have the first few weeks under our belts- we need cliffhangers we're looking forward to to get the full effect.
It's a beautiful way to display the art, and it's interesting to see the different approaches to the format. I agree with the reviewer (I can't remember who) who said we could have used at least one or two "humor" features as balance. Somewhat to my surprise, the features I most enjoyed were some of the ones I was least interested in based on the little information we had going in. Supergirl, while perhaps a little too cute, actually worked as a single strip as well as part one of a serial. Flash, with the double strips, actually looks closer to most of the old Sunday Pages I've seen. Mind you, they normally had one large and one smaller strip, but the idea is there. And the two about equal comics is at least close to what I remember when I was young in the 70's. (I think my paper had 3 to a page, normally. I know for a fact they weren't nearly as cramped as they were now.) And the Wonder Woman, which seems to have left a lot of people cold, drew me in more than the others, at least in part because of how much they crammed into one page. By contrast, Sgt. Rock could have been a normal sized comic page without much damage to the storytelling. It's always a cause for joy to see Joe Kubert doing new work, but it didn't play with the format like most of the others.
I'm guilty of, for the first time I can recall, of buying a copy of a book to store as well as one to read. Given the size I fully expect the early issues to be damaged by the time issue 12 hits; and I don't want to worry about that.
