Wednesday Comics is newspaper-sized at 14" x 20", but it folds down to the 6" x 9" size of modern comic books, so you can keep it bagged and boarded. And to keep the authenticity as realistic as possible, it's printed on newsprint paper. So you may want to wash your hands before handling it, to avoid oiling up the pages. And you may want to wash your hands, afterwards, due to ink smearing.
The preview is the setup for Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's Batman story, where Commissioner Gordon calls Batman to save Franklin Glass, an investment banker who has been kidnapped, and will be killed at midnight. But the Dark Knight Detective only has a minute to find Mr. Glass, and the entire police force couldn't do it.
The art is nice, the storytelling is solid, and reading a Batman story in the one-page format is sort of like reading the first page of a webcomic.
It's more fun than I thought it would be, but I'm glad that Wednesday Comics is only going to be 12 issues, to start. Committing to any more than that, I'd begin to wonder about DC's sanity.
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