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Based on that, how closely will the app and the film tie into the comics, or are they more closely related to material that's only found in the novels? MH: I think all of these will be their own thing, but part of the canon of the Honorverse.  I look at the Honorverse just like I[...]

From Archaia's Mouse Guard, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, and new title Iscariot; KaBoom!'s Garfield, Peanuts, Regular Show, and a new Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake story; and Boom! Box's Lumberjanes, Munchkin, and Help Us! Great Warrior, there's something in this free, 48-page issue for everyone! 48 pgs. Fight Club/The Goon/The Strain—FCBD 2015 Edition – Dark Horse Comics Chuck Palahniuk[...]

Not even I can break through these (though odds are one of them is Darkseid War.) And while last year saw 50 Silver books, this year that has been slashed to 38 as part of #FCBDGate... The Gold Books – we previously scooped all details on those. Dark Circle Comics #1 Bongo Comics Free-For-All Boom Studios 10th Anniversary Special Dark Horse Fight Club[...]

So we will really be seeing a lot of Eric Powell in 2015! Here's the solicit image for Dark Horse's FCBD issue, featuring the Goon in "Colonel Nosferatu's Underground Soiree": It's a cursed town, we've learned, and how can one man moving in that environment escape being cursed himself? Eric Powell's long running title The Goon[...]

From Archaia's Mouse Guard, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, and new title Iscariot; KaBoom!'s Garfield, Peanuts, Regular Show, and a new Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake story; and Boom! Box's Lumberjanes, Munchkin, and Help Us! Great Warrior, there's something in this free, 48-page issue for everyone! 48 pgs. Fight Club/The Goon/The Strain—FCBD 2015 Edition – Dark Horse Comics Chuck Palahniuk[...]

This is the design for the official T-shirt for Free Comic Book Day 2015, featuring a variety of people reading comics, race, gender and alien

Free Comic Book Day has reduced its offering to fifty titles, back in 2012 levels, rather than the sixty-plus titles of recent years, due to what one FCBD committee member dubbed "the locusts." This year, Free Comic Book Day ischeduled for Saturday May 2nd, 2015. Last year a record of 4.7 million copies of comics were given[...]

Last week Bleeding Cool ran the scoop that the number of titles being offered to retailers on Free Comic Book Day would be slashed back to fifty – and that there were complaints from publishers expecting to use FCBD to launch and promote upcoming comics into the direct marketplace. One retailer on the FCBD advisory board had[...]

Some seemed to feel that was too many, with less focus and too much of a burden on retailers who felt forced to carry the entire range This year, that is being slashed back to fifty titles. Publishers expecting their submissions to go through without problems have have discovered their two titles slashed to one – or[...]

This year we were giving out fifty Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie tickets to the first 50 people in line, and $25 worth of merchandise including graphic novels, comics and collectibles to the first fifty people in line as well as $15 in merchandise to the next fifty in line. In addition to the five free comics everyone[...]

  From the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, a break down of how Free Comic Book Day did, by the numbers...   Basically more comics ordered

The Dork Tower's John Kovalic had a dilemma. This was the Free Comic Book Day comic that he picked up from Dynamite. I'm hardly a prude. But here's the

The FCBD 2014 Mouse Guard 56 page hardcover from Archaia was allocated, as you may have noticed eBay certainly has, its a twelve dollar book. But now, courtesy of Bleeding Cool, you can read the whole thing for free, below, including a new Farscape story that might indicate a whole new future for that project… [...]

Farscape, the late nineties sci-fi TV show has been through a number of comic book adaptations. In 2002, Wildstorm produced a two-part Farscape comic. And

It is clearly a terrible thing that comics intended to be given away free are being snapped up and flipped on eBay by speculators in order to turn a quick

By Andrea “Yunie” McFall This past Saturday, May 3rd, Mile High Comics opened its doors for the annual celebration of Free Comic Book Day! With friends

Ultimate Comics in Durham, North Carolina had the usually set up for Free Comic Book Day, the free books, the creators including Tommy Lee Edwards

So, someone gave Scott Snyder working, sharpened Batarangs, for Free Comic Book Day at Alter Ego Comics in Muncie, Indiana. Was this a good idea? And he

Here is the FCBD offering from Top Cow This is the new series Rise Of The Magi written by Marc Silvestri and art by Sumeyye Kesgin. Marc recently wrote on his facebook page: Sometimes an artist comes along and simply knocks you out of your chair I Just got some new 'Rise Of The Magi' pages in[...]

By Jeremy Konrad Cleveland’s best comic event of the year took place last night at Carol and John’s annual Free Comic Book Day Midnight release party. In

Of course, @bleedingcool is the rule! What they say, pay attention! Preach it!! #FCBD #FreeComicBookDay #FCBD2014 pic.twitter.com/XxZdmkT9Mu — KayFey (@kayfey) May 3, 2014 Well that's someone who enjoyed Bleeding Cool Magazine's FCBD issue, out today, and free from all good comic shops We do hope you managed to find a copy and enjoyed it[...]

In that, FCBD is an absolute success. The Guardians of the Galaxy and Mouse Guard books have been the most popular, but people have been really excited about the G.I Joe/Transformers crossover as well For the really little kids, Hello Kitty, Spongebob and the Kaboom Special are flying off the stands. People have been buying a TON[...]

I don't know if there's one single day, with the release of the movies and the TV shows, I think it's a really exciting time and there's plenty of "the days". Chris flips the sign and a stream of the faithful walk in, a father and son, a few of the Wednesday regulars, and some faces[...]

Acme Comics in Greensboro NC always makes for a big Free Comic Book Day. This year not only did they hae a very decent and colourful line before the store

By Devon Sanders Free Comic Book Day is in full swing at Fantom Comics. In Fantom’s decade of existence, they again saw lines looping outside the door and

Across from their own outpost for Starbucks (if you like that kind of thing), the storied Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic shop, created by local comic writer/filmmaker/podcaster and all around pop culture godfather Kevin Smith, was basking in their own corner of weekend sun. I missed their initial FCBD rush due to shore traffic,[...]

But there are more out there. But today Image Comics have 196 free first issues of their series on ComiXology. There are 22 free comics from the ComiXology Submit pages. You have Mikael Bergkvist's Shadow Falls… There's the first book of Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood's The Baker Street Irregulars. There's the full Worlds Of Aspen FCBD 2014 comic on[...]

The first time we went to Orbital Comics, the line was round the block... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rnKFZbMiw So, with the girls and their

David Gallaher and Steve Ellis say: Free Comic Book Day is today! Last year, we celebrated by giving away digital copies of The Only Living Boy. With your

These were the first people lining up at Acme Comics in Greensboro, North Carolina two days ago for Free Comic Book Day today... ...and Jesse James Comics