It’s a fun and random slate of news we have to get through this week, so let’s move straight into highlighting ten things I liked or didn’t like from the week of comics in another edition of Comics Disassembled, led by a very big book (physically).

Superman, Getting Big!

If you want to be sure — absolutely sure! — you’ll get my attention with a new comic, make it a weird size or shape. I’m a simple man, and doing something different with your book will always draw my eye. DC succeeded in that regard, as it announced that an old favorite format will be returning, at least for an upcoming special condition. That’s right: we’re getting a treasury edition release!

It’s part of The Summer of Superman, the publisher’s understandably significant push to promote the character with James Gunn’s film arriving this July. And arriving this July as well is a one-shot story from the excellent creative team of writer Dan Jurgens and artist Bruno Redondo, as the pair is teaming up for Superman Treasury 2025: Hero for All. It features your classic hallmarks of a Superman one-shot story, as there’s something only Superman can stop but there’s also something fishy about the whole thing he’ll need to dig deeper into. Intrigue of course soon follows! But let’s talk about the most important part, which is its size. It’s 10 1/8″ x 13 5/16″! That’s almost twice as big as a regular comic, like the treasury editions of yesteryear! I love it!

Plus, just think of how good Redondo’s art is going to look at those monstrous dimensions. So many interesting details! So many fun tricks he can do! So much pretty! I am all the way in here, even if I can feel some retailers bristling from here about how they’ll manage to rack a book of that size.

IDW, Cross Posting

While they’re not the first to do something like this, credit where credit is due: I like that IDW is partnering with Webtoon to roll out vertical scroll versions of some of their comics. The at least initial wave of comics that will be migrated to that format includes a collection of Godzilla stories in Godzilla: Unnatural Disasters, Patrick Horvath’s horror sensation Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, and George Takei’s memoir They Called Us Enemy, each of which was popular and well-crafted. While I’m not sure They Called Us Enemy is an ideal fit for Webtoon’s audience, subject-wise, Beneath the Trees certainly is, and I can see Webtoon readers connecting with that Godzilla release especially after they see James Stokoe’s art for the first time. I am extremely surprised that the first wave does not include the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I am sure there’s a reason for that.

I’m not sure this is all of a sudden going to cause shockwaves for IDW and send waves of readers to comic shops to buy these books in print. But I do think it’s entirely possible that visibility could be lifted because of this, and that it could result in some gains. I like the idea, I like the effort, and I like the mix of titles they went with. It’s a good move with very little downside in my opinion.