DC Comics is debuting today its Wednesday Comics project - a beautiful, full-color broadsheet comic weighing in at a whopping 14"x20" and featuring single-page adventures of some of the company's best-known and oddest characters, as illustrated by some really amazing artists, all under the auspices of the truly brilliant Mark Chiarello.

I'm going to be picking up my copy later today, and I'm looking forward to it immensely because I'm simply excited about how this thing is gonna look. Alongside that, though, it's a little heartbreaking, inasmuch as, in the project's early stages, I was evidently under consideration to take part. My Little Batman samples had attracted the attention of an assistant editor over at DC, who brought me to Mark Chiarello's attention, and unfortunately, in the long run, I was ultimately passed over for stronger talents. I can't disagree, I'm not even in the same class as the artists currently assigned to the project, much less better than any of them. Correct decisions all around, frankly (and I got to walk away from it with some really flattering and kind words from Chiarello, which is 'be still my beating heart' kind of stuff). Still, it would have been amazing to have been part of this, and even more amazing to work under Chiarello, whom I honestly believe is a bonafide design and graphics genius.

Still, I was thinking about it, and I realized that I could (and probably would) spend twelve consecutive weeks eating my liver out every Wednesday, OR I could instead get caught up in the spirit of the thing. It's a great idea for a comic, and even though I can't participate directly, I can participate alongside it. So, I've decided to try, over the next twelve weeks, to come up with a new comic strip every Wednesday. I say "try" because I am currently still unemployed and job-hunting, which takes up a goodly amount of time, and also working on some other projects, illustrations and comics. I also say this because I only decided to do this last Sunday evening, and lord knows how my enthusiasm will wane, but still ...

At the very least, I figured I can finally wrap up the story arc I left unfinished over in Jeremy a couple of years back, where Jeremy has decided to run away from home (Lead-up strips here and here).

So, yes, the goal is six new Jeremy strips a-a-a-a-and six not-Jeremy comic strips over the next twelve weeks. Awesome, right? Right, and therefore, without further ado ...


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