| Free Comic Book Day May 3, 2008 Free Comic Book Day is a special event held each year at participating comic book shops in North America and the world. On this day shops will have a special stash of comics to give out for free! Marvel, DC, Image, and other companies participate in this including several that will be giving out manga related items. To interest of anime and manga fans: Shonen Jump Sampler – FCBD 2008 A 32 page sampler with previews of Naruto, Bleach, & Slam Dunk, and coverage of many other titles. Gegika: A Drawn+Quarterly Manga Sampler – FCBD 2008 This sampler will have excerpts from Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s Good-Bye and Seiichi Hayashi’s Red Colored Elegy. If you read titles like Abandon the Old in Tokyo and MW you already know what you in for, but if you have never experienced the dark world of Gegika manga now is great chance to. OEL Titles Neotopia Volumes 1-3 pocket manga – FCBD 2008 Creator Rod Espinosa (The Courageous Princess) is offering three volumes his all-ages fantasy sci-fi epic Neotopia. Maximum Ride Volume 1 - FCBD First a book now a manga James Patterson's Maximum Ride is being offered by Yen Press. Source Free Comic Book Day |
BrandApr 17, 2008 6:19 PM
| I love these- thanks for the update. |
| what there is a manga/show of maximum ride of is it just the book |
| i've never heard of this before, where is it held and stuff? Edit: nvm, got my answer on the site -_-U |
FarfieFeb 11, 2008 6:59 PM
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| Hmm, I'll probably be in Florida on that date, but I don't live there so I don't know any comic shops.. |
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AnimeMatt said: what there is a manga/show of maximum ride of is it just the book It's at least a preview of the manga version of the book. Farfie said: i've never heard of this before, where is it held and stuff? Many local comic shops in North America but this is held all over the world (Though not all items are available outside North America). If you don't know of a comic shop in your area, you can try the comic Shop Locater: http://csls.diamondcomics.com/ |
| This sounds interesting, I'll be sure to check it out (if I remember this by May 3 xD Probably should put a note somewhere.) Thanks! ^_^ |
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| Pretty cool, I've never heard of this before. Would be cool to have an actual manga xD but since I can't get to the nearest one on my own, doubt I will any time soon. Few more years I suppose, few more years... |
| lool doesent sound like the comic book guy will do that here XD lol but it sounds cool |
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| Damn...I hate Marvel and DC's choices for FCBD. This year depreciates my All Star Superman #1... Its cool if they do stuff like last years Spider-man story that is a completely original tale and showing off some lower selling series...but reprinting mainstream issues really gets annoying... Sadly what they dont say is that these comic books come out of pocket for the retailers so if you are going to stop by and pick up a free book help out your local comic shop by buying some other stuff while you're there. looking foward to Tiny Titans, Comic Book Diner and the always wonderful Owly. |
manasteel88Feb 12, 2008 10:46 PM
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| If they had a Shojo Beat sampler... i would get one. xD |
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| Don't read/like American comics & most of the free manga stuff is shonen is shit. |
| Not a fan of American comics... they don't compare to Manga's |
| Sink... into Darkness! |
ChaoticHoshi said: Well good thing they are offering manga as well.Not a fan of American comics... they don't compare to Manga's |
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| While I can understand not being a fan of American comics, some of them are really good and worth a shot. Watchmen, Bone, Sandman, Fables, and many others are really good reads. But I did post this as they are giving away manga related items and today most comic shops do carry manga. I'm mostly interested in the Gegika preview. I'm really interested in these types of titles. Also as for the All Star Superman #1, didn't the trade already devalue your comic? I hate to say it but floppies just don't value like they used to. Though I do like it when they do something new. |
BrandFeb 13, 2008 5:45 PM
| this is one of those days where you wish that you lived in america.. |
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| hmm... more stuff to get besides the free comic book day issue of Sonic... ^^; |
| Free Comic Book Day is amazing. It's like this magical holiday where they give you free comic books, hehe=]. I went last year and got 11 free comic books. I hadn't ever read an american comic book before that time, or manga either for that matter. |
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| O____O MAXIMUM RIDE COMIC BOOK?!? I never heard about this... then again, since it's a "superhero" kinda thing, it was bound to happen. Just like Artemis Fowl. >> |
| Deffently (sp?) cool. Need to check this out and see if my store is participating! n___n |
the_seventh_l said: Brand said: While I can understand not being a fan of American comics, some of them are really good and worth a shot. Watchmen, Bone, Sandman, Fables, and many others are really good reads. QFT. Don't forget my personal favorite: Transmetropolitan. Warren Ellis for the goddamn win. :D Very true, Warren Ellis is my favorite comic book author, though I have to admit my favorite series from him was Next Wave (total crack). Though Transmetropolitan was very awesome and probably has one of my favorite endings ever. Planetary is also a very awesome series. As a plug for my favorite author here is a current series he is doing as a web comic: http://freakangels.com/ A lot of his work (the non-marvel) stuff it's very different from what one may think a typical comic book is like. Very worth checking out. |
| do mangas count as comic books? |
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cr4sian_phil said: do mangas count as comic books? They are comic books so why wouldn't they count? |
| I want a Batman comic book >.>; |
She's a super weirdo, but if she was standing there quietly you'd never know.  |
| Meh, the comic store here rarely gets any of the free comic book day stuff except the Marvel/DC/DarkHorse title :( Actually I just realised. First Saturday in May is when I'll be at Collectormania. Thats a big(ish) event, theres a chance some of the vendors there might have a wider selection I guess :D |
EphidelMar 20, 2008 5:19 AM
| Just bumping this as it gets closer. I've added some links to previews of some of the books in my first post, plus a commercial for FCBD 2008. |
| I'll be there May 3rd to get my FREE comics! YAY!!!!! |
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| I went once last year I think, pretty neat but they didn't have much manga stuff..hope there's more around here this year. :) I'll probably go check it out. |
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| Meh, I'm disappointed now :( I went to my LCS today to see if they had the stuff for FCBD in yet, or if they knew what they'd be getting, as I was planning to get my nan to pop in there during her saturday shopping as I'm away (or well, I was hoping I might get them to give it to me early, but sending in my nan was the next option :P). They told me they got sent their stuff early, and gave it all away last saturday instead, and that they had nothing left. When I said 'But free comic book day is meant to be in may, so how was I meant to know you'd changed it?' they proclaimed they'd put signs up and everything... but hadn't thought to put it on their website which I might actually have seen it on :( So, no freebies for me :( |
llxwarbirdxll said: It's free comic book day everyday on the internet. Lol. Anyways, it was pretty cool today at the comic book stores. One of them had some cool Ironman posters so I grabbed a few (some for friends). They only really had that one tiny Shounen Jump thing in terms of manga stuff though. |
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