Last week we gave our annual Scoop Award for the Best Comic of 2009 to DC’s Wednesday Comics #1, and we thought maybe we ought to let you know that a beautiful, hardcover collected edition is on the.

The Wednesday Comics hardcover, which will measure 11” x 17.5” and retail for $49.99. The strips featured in the series (and now in the book) include Batman, Adam Strange, Metamorpho, The Demon and Catwoman, Deadman, Kamandi, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Supergirl, Hawkman, Sgt. Rock, The Flash and Metal Men.

The hardcover also includes previously unpublished pages of The Creeper (by Keith Giffen and Eric Canete) and Plastic Man (by Evan Dorkin and Stephen DeStefano), plus a bonus sketchbook section.
The original 12-part, weekly project was spearheaded by DCU Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello, who also provides an introduction to this edition. It’s in the December Previews from Diamond Comic Distributors, but isn’t scheduled to be in stores until May 26, 2010.

It’ll offer readers who missed the weekly series (and those who loved it) a chance to find out why establishment media sources as diverse as USA Today and the Village Voice agreed with us!