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Comics - Weekly Series - Wednesday Comics - Issue #3

WEDNESDAY COMICS #3
COVER TAGLINE: The World's Greatest Heroes! The World's Greatest Comics!
RELEASE DATE: July 22, 2009
PRICE: $3.99 U.S.

EDITOR(s): Mark Chiarello; Chris Conroy

INTERIOR ART:

TITLE: Batman
WRITER(s): Brian Azzarello
PENCILER(s): Eduardo Risso
INKER(s): Eduardo Risso
COLORS: Trish Mulvihill
LETTERS: Clem Robins

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Luna Glass; Carlton Glass

PLOT:
Deciding to keep an eye on the widow Glass, Batman overhears a conversation between Franklin Glass's son Carlton and his widow Luna in which Carlton goes so far as to say that he's willing to claim in court that his father was senile when he willed his entire fortune to Luna.

TITLE: Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth!
WRITER(s): Dave Gibbons
PENCILER(s): Ryan Sook
INKER(s): Ryan Sook
COLORS: Ryan Sook
LETTERS: Ryan Sook

CHARACTERS: Kamandi; Prince Tuftan; Dr. Canus; Orora

PLOT:
Kamandi and Tuftan are saved by Dr. Canus who arrives in his giant airship just in time to lift them out of danger. Later, as the giant ship floats through the clouds, Tuftan notices a commotion below - an Ape hunting party is chasing someone down and it's a human girl!

TITLE: Superman
WRITER(s): John Arcudi
PENCILER(s): Lee Bermejo
INKER(s): Lee Bermejo
COLORS: Barbara Ciardo
LETTERS: Ken Lopez

CHARACTERS: Superman (Clark Kent); Ma Kent; Pa Kent

PLOT:
Feeling a tinge of homesickness, Clark heads back to his parents home in Smallville. It's just another quiet night in the farm community, Ma is doing the dishes and Pa is reading about the new Bio-Fuel expo at the fair tomorrow. But everything stops when their boy comes home. Both parents are overjoyed to see Clark and rush over to greet him.

TITLE: The Dearly Departed Detective Part 1: Portents and Symbols
WRITER(s): Dave Bullock; Vinton Heuck
PENCILER(s): Dave Bullock
INKER(s): Dave Bullock
COLORS: Dave Stewart
LETTERS: Jared K. Fletcher

CHARACTERS: Deadman (Boston Brand); Rama Kushna

PLOT:
Boston spirals further and further down into the abyss of the madman's mind. When he finally touches down at bottom he realizes that he's now in another realm all together - one named Kalak's Realm in which he is now corporeal and capable of feeling pain. For better or worse....

TITLE: Green Lantern
WRITER(s): Kurt Busiek
PENCILER(s): Joe Quiñones
INKER(s): Joe Quiñones
COLORS: Joe Quiñones
LETTERS: Pat Brosseau

CHARACTERS: Green Lantern (Hal Jordan); Carol Ferris; Joe Dillon

PLOT:
Hal finally arrives at the Orbit lounge just in time to watch on the television set as Joe Dillon, the astronaut whom he once trained, convulse and burst into the shape of a hideous monster!

TITLE: Metamorpho, The Element Man
WRITER(s): Neil Gaiman
PENCILER(s): Michael Allred
INKER(s): Michael Allred
COLORS: Laura Allred
LETTERS: Nate Piekos

CHARACTERS: Metamorpho (Rex Mason); Sapphire Stagg; Simon Stagg; Java

PLOT:
Rex and the others continue their search through the strange forgotten land.

NOTE:
At the bottom of the page there is a "letter column" which features an extra special letter from Paul Levitz asking about how Metamorpho got his powers and what he can do. The answer of course is through exposure to the Eye of Ra and the ability to transmutate his body into any element on Earth excluding the Transuranic Elements.

TITLE: Teen Titans
WRITER(s): Eddie Berganza
PENCILER(s): Sean Galloway
INKER(s): Sean Galloway
COLORS: Sean Galloway
LETTERS: Nick J Napolitano

CHARACTERS: Robin (Tim Drake); Miss Martian (M'gann M'orzz); Nightwing (Dick Grayson); Cyborg (Vic Stone); Starfire (Koriand'r); Blue Beetle (Jamie Reyes); Ravager (Rose Wilson); Trident

PLOT:
After rescuing Cyborg from the water, the team is helped by doctors who arrive in a special S.M.A.S.H. (Special Mobile Armored Super Hospital) ship. What the doctors lack in bedside manner they make up for in response time and overall knowledge. As the ship is taking off into the skies they're attacked once more by a recovered Trident!

TITLE: Strange Adventures
WRITER(s): Paul Pope
PENCILER(s): Paul Pope
INKER(s): Paul Pope
COLORS: Jose Villarrubia
LETTERS: Paul Pope

CHARACTERS: Adam Strange; Alanna Strange; Lord Korgo; Sardath

PLOT:
Alanna is taken to the Larder and Adam is set inside the Tigrabar Pit where he is to await his meeting with the Master Interrogator. Left alone down in the pit he calms his mind and focuses on his ability to trace the trajectory of the zeta-beams flying through the air around him on an unseen frequency. Suddenly he realizes with quite a shock that a beam is about to strike right where he's standing! He begs his guards to let him go but within moments the beam strikes and Adam Strange is gone!

TITLE: Supergirl
WRITER(s): Jimmy Palmiotti
PENCILER(s): Amanda Conner
INKER(s): Amanda Conner
COLORS: Paul Mounts
LETTERS: John J. Hill

CHARACTERS: Supergirl (Linda Lang); Krypto; Streaky

PLOT:
For the time being it seems as though Krypto has calmed down and decided to be a good boy. So Supergirl enlists him in finding Streaky. After rescuing a mini-van Streaky sent flying into a nearby tree, Supergirl looks up in the sky just in time to notice her beloved feline launching skyward towards a jet plane taking off. The design on the tail fin? A giant mouse!

TITLE: Chapter Three: Metal Urgency
WRITER(s): Dan DiDio
PENCILER(s): José Luis García-López
INKER(s): Kevin Nowlan
COLORS: Trish Mulvihill
LETTERS: Ken Lopez

CHARACTERS: Dr Will Magnus; Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Platinum; Tin

PLOT:
When one of the robbers decides to blast his way out and take a young boy hostage, everyone's attention is diverted and becomes focused on keeping him in the bank and saving the boy's life.

TITLE: Wonder Woman
WRITER(s): Ben Caldwell
PENCILER(s): Ben Caldwell
INKER(s): Ben Caldwell
COLORS: Ben Caldwell
LETTERS: Ben Caldwell

CHARACTERS: Wonder Woman (Diana Prince); Dr. Poison

PLOT:
Diana's dream adventure continues as she once again finds herself in the waters outside the Jizodo shrine. She's plucked from the deep and held hostage by the menacing Dr. Poison, who intends on forcing Diana to find the gauntlets hidden within the shrine so that she can bring about a world of perpetual war. Luckily Kappa-Chobi, one of the glowing fish spirits Diana met while underwater, jumps into action and allows Diana to escape. During her fight, Diana uncovers the gauntlets and escapes with them back into the real world... or is the real world nothing more than a dream itself?

TITLE: Sgt. Rock and Easy Co.
WRITER(s): Adam Kubert
PENCILER(s): Joe Kubert
INKER(s): Joe Kubert
COLORS: Joe Kubert
LETTERS: Joe Kubert

CHARACTERS: Sgt. Frank Rock; Bulldozer

PLOT:
Bulldozer and the rest of Rock's men finally reach the opening to the mine and find the town while Rock's bloody interrogation continues and is documented by an elderly Nazi photographer.

TITLE: Flash Comics
WRITER(s): Karl Kerschl & Brenden Fletcher
PENCILER(s): Karl Kerschl
INKER(s): Karl Kerschl
COLORS: Dave McCaig
LETTERS: Rob Leigh

CHARACTERS: Flash (Barry Allen); Iris West Allen

PLOT:
Iris has put up with a lot of nonsense just to be with Barry - but two Barrys is two more than she can take so she packs her things and leaves. This convinces the Barrys that they must work together and sync up their vibrational frequencies and travel together through the past so that they can split up and deal with the dual problem of Gorilla Grodd and their crumbling relationship with Iris. But as they race through time they arrive on the other end to find they've gone the wrong way - they're now in the future! There they meet a young speedster who informs them that Iris West Allen was killed years back, thrown off Central City Tower by Grodd! Let's hope the Barry Allens can work out their time traveling techniques and make it back in time to save Iris!

TITLE: The Demon and Cat Woman
WRITER(s): Walter Simonson
PENCILER(s): Brian Stelfreeze
INKER(s): Brian Stelfreeze
COLORS: Brian Stelfreeze
LETTERS: Steve Wands

CHARACTERS: Catwoman (Selina Kyle)

PLOT:
Selina lies unconscious in a cemetery while an old witch hovers over her. The witch bares a grudge against Jason Blood for stealing her magic collar from her long ago. She snaps the collar around Selina's neck transforming her into an actual large black cat. Bent to the old hag's will, the cat follows her back towards Cadburry Hill and the home of Jason Blood.

TITLE: Hawkman
WRITER(s): Kyle Baker
PENCILER(s): Kyle Baker
INKER(s): Kyle Baker
COLORS: Kyle Baker
LETTERS: Kyle Baker

CHARACTERS: Hawkman (Carter Hall)

PLOT:
After dealing with most of the terrorists aboard the plane, Hawkman is shocked when the remaining terrorists transforms into his natural state - revealing himself to be a Makkorthite! The Makkorthians stumbled across Earth and, seeing how close it was to a peaceful worldwide union, wanted to stir up trouble by using the plane to stage a global terrorist attack. Hawkman and the Makkorthite do battle when suddenly a blast from the giant bug-beast blows a hole in the plane cabin wall. Plummeting back towards Earth, Hawkman hopes to wait until the Makkorthian expends it's reservoir of energy and strike before it can recharge. But that's if he can avoid smashing to the pavement below!

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