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[[File:wednesdaycomics.jpg|frame|Kicking it old school. ''[[Homage|Really]]'' old school.]]
{{quote|''The World's Greatest Heroes''
After the [[So Cool Its Awesome|excellent]] weekly series ''[[
▲''The World's Greatest Heroes''<br />''The World's Greatest Comics''<br />
''Wednesday Comics'' is a deliberate [[Homage]] to old style [[Silver Age]] stories done in a 14-by-20-inch broadsheet format, like Sunday newspaper comics. Each page is different, with a continuing story, some showing the superheroes as their classic selves, others completely reimagining them.
▲After the [[So Cool Its Awesome|excellent]] weekly series ''[[Fifty Two|52]]'', the... not-so-excellent ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]'', and the [[So Okay It's Average|acceptable]] ''Trinity'' series, DC has decided to take a new approach to a weekly series. Or, rather, an ''[[Newspaper Comics|old]]'' approach.
▲''Wednesday Comics'' is a deliberate [[Homage]] to old style [[Silver Age]] stories done in a 14-by-20-inch broadsheet format, like Sunday newspaper comics. Each page is different, with a continuing story, some showing the superheroes as their classic selves, others completely reimagining them.
So far, the stories are:
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* ''[[Adam Strange|Strange Adventures]]'' by Paul Pope
* ''[[Supergirl]]'' by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner
* ''[[Metal Men]]'' by [[Dan
* ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' by Ben Caldwell
* ''[[Sgt. Rock]]'' by Adam Kubert and Joe Kubert
* ''[[The Flash]]'' by Karl Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher
* ''[[The Demon]] and [[Catwoman (
Needless to say, with all the heavy hitters (especially Gaiman and Allred), it turned out to be the next big hit.
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* [[Alien Invasion]]: Several of the strips revolve around this.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Not within any of the strips, but in overall effect: most of the strips are homages to the [[Silver Age]], and some are explicitly set in past decades (''Green Lantern'', 1950s; ''Metamorpho'', 1960s), but we also have Pa Kent considering the potential of biodiesel and Selina Kyle telling how she "Googled" Jason Blood.
* [[Anthology Comic]]
* [[Art Shift]]: When reality fractures during the Flash storyline, the art style keeps switching to that of other newspaper comics -- ''[[Peanuts]]'', ''[[Modesty Blaise (comic strip)|Modesty Blaise]]'', ''[[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]]'', and ''[[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|Dick Tracy]]'' -- before returning to its own style as reality settles down.
** Also, some of the stories have what might be regarded as a full-story Art Shift (unless there's another trope that covers it better): for instance, ''Kamandi'' is rendered in a style reminscent of newspaper adventure comics such as ''[[Prince Valiant]]'' and ''[[Tarzan]]''.
* [[Batman Cold Open]]: Batman's strip is actually the first one, but the trope is used for Metamorpho.
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* [[Sunday Strip]]: Basically, a Sunday Strip {{smallcaps|[[In Space|FOR COMIC BOOKS!]]}}
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Surprisingly invoked with the ''very'' somber ending of the {{spoiler|Metal Men}} strip, specifically by the exchange that {{spoiler|Doc Magnus and Mercury have while musing on the "deaths" of the rest of the Metal Men in stopping Chemo's meltdown.}}
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