2012 Archives

FOREVER!!!! [issuu width=420 height=325 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120508093312-e49c99e841244377a2c5334d47ae7b82 name=th3rdworld-fcbd-2012-gossamyr username=richjohnston tag=bleedingcool unit=px v=2]   For the Buffy/Aliens/Alabaster Wolves/The Guild comic, click here, and sign up to Dark Horse digital if you haven't yet Available until the end of May. For the Star Wars/Alabaster Wolves/Serenity comic, click here[...]

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; It’s May already? Time certainly does fly when you’re discussing good comics, but passes by more slowly when

MouseWatch: David Petersen reads last year's Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day story http://vimeo.com/34828777 ChicagoWatch: Neil Gaiman writes; I'm writing

Here's a few shots, via Twitter, of how Free Comic Book Day has been going down around the world...  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsrGSj9XdQ It is an impressive volume for no money...

I took Eve and a couple of her classmates to London today for free comics and pizza. I was a very popular daddy today. We stopped off at Orbital, where

I'll be going to Orbital Comics, Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics for their kids workshop with my eldest daughter Eve and some of her school friends for

We suggested last week that we were about to get a Buffy Vs Aliens story from Dark Horse for Free Comic Book Day 2012 An in continuity encounter between Buffy The Vampire Slayer and the xenomorphs. Here's one panel from tomorrow's free Buffy comic… we've been asked not to show any more…   We suggested last week[...]

This year's Image Comics Free Comic Book Day volume celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the publisher. And in doing so, previews a bunch of all new comic

In this weekend's Valiant Free Comic Book Day offering there are plenty of teases as to what is to come in the Valiant Universe. But two pieces stand out

Dynamite's Free Comic Book Day offering this year is Dinosaurs Vs Aliens, a preview of the upcoming graphic novel by Barry Sonnenfeld, Grant Morison and

Well, nationwide-ish. Mostly in the South. Twenty states. Bleeding Cool has been following the progress of Hastings, a multimedia entertainment superstore

FreeComicBookDayWatch: Every comic shop across the country seems to be getting loads and loads of press right now for Free Comic Book Day 2012 calling it "Geek Christmas". LemmingWatch: When rap samples Lemmings, from Akira The Don, from Unkillable Thunder Christ. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wCVnUnWnAc[/youtube] FranceWatch: BD Comics Passion is the L'Institut Francais in London's second comics festival with Comica[...]

Looking at stores going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day 2012? Here are a couple more… This year Earthworld Comics of Albany, New York, will be working with Books For Troops by collecting donations from fans to send to soldiers in Afghanistan They have been collecting donations all April long and have been handing[...]

The following article may have minor spoilers, but the major ones have been removed to protect the innocent. Some comic book companies are reprinting old

They'll be raffling off the Neil Gaiman/David Mack print for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Comic Store West in York, Pennsylvania, will be playing Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, Hulk on their HD projector and movie screen, selling comics by the pound, trivia contests through the day, a tent for Avengers Vs[...]

    Gavin Lees writes for Bleeding Cool; Since his untimely passing last month, there has been an enormous outpouring of tributes to Jean “Moebius”

This coming weekend, Double Midnight Comics of Manchester, NH will be ten years old. And they're extending Free Comic Book Day festivities over four

Walking Dead #100 comes out the same day San Diego Comic Con 2012 opens And it is so on. I've already got a Vannen Walking Dead wristwatch signed by Kirkman and Adlard It's sweet But for San Diego, they are bringing out a Walking Dead #100 Vannen Watch or $85, featuring Rick with one hand, based[...]

It's exclusive time for San Diego Comic Con already… and Mattel are showing off their planned exclusive figures for 2012 There's an eight inch Death standing on a Skull for $25. $20 will get you these one or one-and-a-half inch Tity Titans figures, Robin, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy with packaging drawn by Art Baltazar.   [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4Od9A2Nto[/youtube] Mike Wellman, the manager of The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California, takes us through all the Free Comic Book Day titles for 2012 Well, most of them Even the ones he hasn't actually heard of. Like the Moomins The Moomins for goodness sake[...]

Bleeding Cool continues to celebrate comic book stires that are going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day in 2012, this May the 5th. Collectors' Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, will run FCBD 9am until 9pm.Although you may want to be there earlier. The first twenty-five in line will get a Free Movie Pass to see AVENGERS[...]

Every year Jetpack Comics hosts a Free Comic Book Day Festival, across Rochester in New Hampshire. Thousands attend what has to be one of the largest Free

  Countdown To The Eisners by Cameron Hatheway This week is all about the little rascals! The categories I’ll be taking a look at are Best Publication for

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxStRN85LLE[/youtube] Scarlett Johansson is Black Widow in The Avengers 2012, continuing her role for Iron Man 2! Host Grace Randolph, from Beyond The Trailer, and guest Alan Kistler talk about the history of Black Widow from Marvel Comics, and if Scarlett Johansson is doing Black Widow justice in The Avengers 2012! You've scene clips of her[...]

He's going to find out if your comic book retailer has been naughty or nice. It appears that, just as in 2009, there will be no comic book delivery on Christmas week in 2012, as the usual delivery day falls on Christmas Day. Last time, DC Comics shipped Blackest Night #6 a week early, to be sold[...]

Alex Wilson begins our C2E2 cosplay journey with a TikiStormtrooper... Taylor Ramsey writes; This year's C2E2 had a really eclectic batch of costumes

ZOMBIES #1 PLANET OF THE APES #9 HELLRAISER #10 Don't miss your chance to get these exclusive variants previously only available at Emerald City Comicon 2012! Quantities are limited and may be allocated. 32pgs, FC    $9.99Ea.   VALEN THE OUTCAST #8 (W) Michael Alan Nelson (A) Matteo Scalera (C) A: Khary Randolph Cover B: Eddie Nunez FINAL ISSUE! All great[...]

July in Image Comics means a bunch of new titles from Revival to Wild Children, the hundredth issue of Walking Dead and a bunch of celebratory covers from

It was a cultural crime against humanity. That Roger Langridge's final Muppet Show comics never saw print at Boom!, caught in the twisting wind between