“…Each page of ‘Wednesday Comics’ is actually the size of four regular-sized comic pages, so I made sure I always ended each page with a cliffhanger to make the reader come back for more next week. So every page starts with action as last week’s cliffhanger is resolved in the opening panels, next something happens to move the story forward a step, then a new cliffhanger is introduced. All of my books tend to follow that same cliffhanger melodrama structure, whether it’s ‘Nat Turner,’ ‘Plastic Man,’ ‘King David’ or ‘I Die At Midnight.’ The only real difference with writing a story in weekly installments is that I don’t expect the reader to remember what happened two pages back. In a book, I can have a character buy a gun on page one and not fire it until page twenty, assuming that the reader will remember that the character had a gun.”

Kyle Baker