More focus on DC's Wednesday Comics, this time over at Newsarama, who have and interview with writer Brian Azzarello:

Newsarama: What attracted you to the project? Was it the format, which mimics the old Sunday newspaper strips? And were you a fan of them?

Brian Azzarello: That’s exactly what attracted me. When Chi [editor Mark Chiarello[ told me the format, there was no question of my not getting involved in it. But I don’t read the Sunday comics sections much now —there’s not much left to them. I liked them when I was a kid, though, sure.

Nrama: It’s a pretty cool package.

Azzarello: Yeah! It’s funny, I go out a lot, and I’ll take the book with me. I’ll sit and have a coffee or I’ll take it to the bar, and people are always asking me about it. It’s really exciting for people to see — it’s definitely getting people’s attention.

Nrama: You’re the first writer we’ve talked with about this project. The artists we’ve spoken to said that the hardest part of the format was compressing a comic book’s worth of information into a single page. Was that true for you as well?

Azzarello: Actually, the work was in coming up with the approach. We thought about telling 12 different Batman stories, but I didn’t think Batman lends himself to that kind of treatment. In the old days of Sunday comics, Batman would have been a serial story, so I started thinking about Dick Tracy — and once I put those two guys together, we were done. So what were’ doing is putting each page out as a vignette, one chapter in an overarching story. I think it connects all the x’s and y’s, and once I sat down to do it, it wasn’t that hard. As I said, the work was in coming up with the angle.

For the entire interview click here...

(Source - Newsarama)