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Free Comic book day
For those who don't know and care, this saturday, the 6th of may, is free comic book day.
Information is available at http://www.freecomicbookday.com/
If you're like me, and live in the most remote city in the world, there aren't many choices in shop/hosts, but the rest of you should have no trouble.
There is a list of whats being given away available on the sponsor page, and the shop list DOES have places outside the US (I had people asking me...)
Information is available at http://www.freecomicbookday.com/
If you're like me, and live in the most remote city in the world, there aren't many choices in shop/hosts, but the rest of you should have no trouble.
There is a list of whats being given away available on the sponsor page, and the shop list DOES have places outside the US (I had people asking me...)
Comments
I'd really like to know what their reasons would be for not participating. I see it as a pretty blatant intentional boycotting of Diamond's practices.
Free comic book day is a sham. There is no real interest in getting new people to read comics. The new people they're going after are not comics nerds, and nerds and their soft porn wet dreams are what drive the comics market. So as part of the bogus FCBD promotion retailers offer up a small variety of independent publishers to make comics seem diverse and interesting while in reality Marvel and DC dominate the selection at any comic store every other day of the year. Was it February or March where Marvel had a little over half of all comics sold? Fuck rehashed Spider Man and his 24 part crossovers. If these new people are really interested in any of the non superhero titles on FCBD I wish them luck finding those books regularly on the other 364 days of the year.
Now, I hate the comic nerds as much as the next man. Rehashed X-Men and their 36-part crossovers are my hated enemies. But FCBD is not a scam to falsify what the comic industry is really about. FCBD is really an attempt to get people who normally do not buy comics, to buy comics. Give a free sample and they might come back for more later.
I can understand how you can see FCBD as a sham though, because it definitely isn't very succesful at its goal. The primary problem with FCBD is that you can only get the free comics at a comic shop. If they really wanted to get new people they would put the free comics on newsstands everywhere. But that doesn't mean FCBD doesn't have some good effects. What happens on FCBD is the comic nerds buying X-Men and Infinite Crisis get a free copy of something independent and different. Maybe, just maybe, they will start to buy a non super-hero title.
I have a strong feeling that Tokyopop and Viz are going to do a killer job of promoting manga on FCBD. That is because they don't give away a flimsy comic. They give away a Tokyopop Sneak or a Viz seasonal sampler. Those things are the size of an entire $10 manga. They are just filled with ads and have about 5 stories in them instead of one. Lots of superhero nerds who never looked at manga before might not be able to resist such a great deal.
If a comic shop doesn't participate in FCBD that tells me one thing. They like the way things are now, they don't want things to actually change, they don't care about comics and they suck.
On FCBD I'm going to try to visit this shop that supposedly exists across the river in Newburgh. Never been there before, hopefully it will be a good experience.
I also got the X-men and justice league from some people who had read them and were gonna throw 'em out. I Still havent looked at them :P
I had looked beforehand and the Tokypop one didn't seem too interesting, and they didn't really have any of the other ones that people are talking about.
On the plus side, My store had a sale on everything in stock, so I got some random thing to read. It's called Neon Genesis: Angelic Days. It's set in the dream world created near the end of one of the movies. I watched it far too long ago to remember which. It's actually a retelling of the story, but everyone is happy. Asuka and Shinji are childhood friends (people seem to wonder how) and Rei is a transfer student. Who smiles. And HAS A PERSONALITY.
BUT I STILL HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET MY HANDS ON THE SCOTT PILGRIM COMIC. There are nothing but tears.
I'm likely going to wind up ordering the comics directly from Mal so I can actually get my hands on one— he's been saying that he'll send them out with every order as long as his supplies last. I'm pretty keen on that.
I was thinking of sending it to you since I wont read it much more than I have, but the cost to do so from here would probably be ass.
Oh and Scott you were right. That guy in the Stormbringer section was indeed Jetfire (Skyfire on the TV show). And the bots he was with...those were the Technobots. FYI: Stormbringer takes place just after Infiltration ends.
It can be found here: http://www.newsarama.com/Oni/FREESP/FCBDFSP.html