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Marvel Comics has released their two Free Comic Book Day titles for 2020, digitally, on their Marvel Unlimited server Though, because they are free, you don't have to be a subscriber to read them They are also both free on ComiXology. Free Comic Book Day 2020 (X-Men) #1 FCBD is headlined by a brand new X-Men story[...]

For a very… unconventional Free Comic Book Day release in the wake of the lockdown, Marvel Comics assembled their X-Men team of Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard to craft a story that would set the stage for the upcoming slate of mutant stories The 10-page tale, plus a little extra something that we'll talk about art the end,[...]

Today sees the X-Men Free Comic Book Day 2020 released in comic book stores for Free Comic Book Summer If you can get to a comic book store that is And it has plenty of portents for the future for the X-Men comic books Last summer, they had a big relaunch with Jonathan Hickman as[...]

The big DC Comics Free Comic Book Day title was meant to be Generation Zero, an epilogue to Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth's Flash Forward, and would lead into the Generation volumes that would end with Generation Five – otherwise known as 5G It would also show off the new DC Timeline. A version of the[...]

Last year we were teased with an upcoming Funko Mystery Box for Free Comic Book Day With Free Comic Book Day postponed it looks like Funko has unveiled the contents of the boxes Loki takes center stage with this box and will have three different boxes available Each box will contain the new Funko mold[...]

Today, the new Free Comic Book Summer promotion was announced, with comic book stores able to give away free comic books from June into September. But

Free Comic Book Day 2020 was to have taken place the first week of May Then the global pandemic hit and naturally the idea of crowds of people turning up as a scrum to grab free comic books was not going to fly Some publishers such as Image and Marvel have stated that they will[...]

Free Comic Book Day was meant to be the first Saturday in May and would have included the Image Comics title Fire Power #1 from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Black Widow/Captain America artist Chris Samnee That was meant to come out just after the original graphic novel, Fire Power: The Prelude at[...]

It's called A Hero Forged and the first issue went up on the Quarancomics channel in time for what would have been Free Comic Book Day Featuring a muscular shot of our as-yet-unamed hero being forged… Brett Booth and Scott Lobdell's New Instagram Comic, A Hero Forged Art from Instagram. A figure in ER, whoever of whatever[...]

Today would have been Free Comic Book Day, but that has been postponed until the autumn A number of comic stores were also meant to open their doors for the first time today, but are not So there may be a subdued feeling Nevertheless, welcome all, to the daily Lying In The Gutters a long-running[...]

A couple of days ago, Bleeding Cool profiled the Collector's Paradise chain store in California, and its plans for a Stay Away Comic Book Day to replace Free Comic Book Day As well as a plan to allow people to pick up their comic books from one of the store's neighbouring pizza parlour, which was[...]

We switched gears and joined forces with Russell Nohelty's Alt Free Comic Days (AltFCD), a 2-day online variation of Free Comic Book Day, a beloved spring tradition. AltFCD kicks off on May 1 with a keynote from Teen Titans co-creator Marv Wolfman There will be panels featuring creators like Cecil Castellucci (Batgirl, Shade, the Changing Girl), Roye[...]

Which he is now signing, and giving away for free, posting all over the world. Scott Lobdell is Creating a Free Comic Book Day For The World Image via Scott Lobdell. As well as creating new X-Men fanfic on Instagram, he writes "Every Sunday until this thing passes (and let's hope it is sooner than later) I[...]

Which he made go live with the following image, suggesting that this decision was akin to a punch in the mouth.   Demanding that Free Comic Book Day be postponed rather than transformed into Free Comic Book May And it appears he got his wish Diamond has now officially postponed Free Comic Book Day to later in[...]

This year's Free Comic Book Day was planned for the first Saturday in May Books were intended to start arriving in stores very soon, but now, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it was believed to have put too much pressure on the system And it is now intended to cover the whole of[...]

Every first Saturday of May, the comic book industry hosts Free Comic Book Day, when comic book publishers and comic book retailers conspire to give away millions of comic books, to readers new and old Some containing samples of upcoming or published work, some original works to tease and tantalise and help sales of ongoing[...]

Lots of comic shops choose to open their doors for the first time on Free Comic Book Day I think last year we counted eleven, all told Well, it's still two months away but Superscript Comics and Games of Lakewood, Ohio, is the first for 2020 to put their head above the parapet. Owners Elliott Frank,[...]

Our alternative to Free Comic Book Day what should it be called? I typed up a list of possible names then ran it by some of my employees Here was the list I typed up Some were more serious than others. Don't be Cheap Day Get Some Great Comics Day Not Free Comic Book Day Classic Comic Book Day Superior[...]

Complete with arrows. Another continuity cock-up along the lines of the current Justice League run occurring before Scott Snyder's run, despite containing events that definitely happened during it? Well, Bleeding Cool gets the word that DC's Free Comic Book Day title Generation Zero: Gods Among Us will address this head on, and other editorial foul-ups directly,[...]

We saw the publication of Flash Forward #6 today, setting up the Free Comic Book Day title Generation Zero from DC Comics, now give the fuller title Generation Zero : Gods Among Us – will that be enough to dissuade the trademark police? It's also going to be a bigger comic book that before with a[...]

Free Comic Book Day is coming on Saturday, the 2nd of May But comic book stores do like to know a little about what's coming – especially what titles are suitable for what audiences? Little Timmy and Tabitha may love to get their hands on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys, but their parents[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Rich, in a previous article, brought up the cost to host Free Comic Book Day along with what I had written about us not having Free Comic Book Day this year The bare minimum cost is $60 not counting freight. I never said the cost was[...]

Last week Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics outlined reasons as to why his store wouldn't be participating in Free Comic Book Day this year But how much of a cost and commitment is it? Well, to be a listed participant and receive the publicity benefits that come with being a Free Comic Book Day store,[...]

After talking with customers about trying something new on Free Comic Book Day in May, we have not heard anything positive about Free Comic Book Day in itself We are being told that they are coming in for Rod Deals, not the free comics The sales that are a part of Rod Deals is what[...]

We only head the names, publishers and assorted details for the Silver Free Comic Book Day 2020 titles the other day now we have them all So… what will you be picking up, come the first Saturday in May? GOLD TITLES: FCBD 2020 ARCHIE BLUE RIBBON PRESENTS ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS (W) Micol Ostow, Jamie L Rotante (A/CA) Thomas Pitilli,[...]

The Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) Committee has selected the forty-seven comic book titles for Free Comic Book Day, May 2nd, 2020 But not everything free – there will also be exclusive merchandise for the day There are three Marvel-based Funko Mystery Bozes (with at least a T-shirt size) for $35 each A Jeffrey Brown[...]

We saw the Free Comic Book Day 2020 Gold titles a couple of days ago – and we'll run those ten below But first here are the 37 Silver titles which retailers don't have to order to participate in Free Comic Book Day – but most will anyway. SILVER TITLES Dark Ark: Instinct by Cullen Bunn and[...]

Diamond has revealed the solicits for all of the Free Comic Book Day 2020 Gold Sponsor books, including an X-Men book from Marvel, Robert Kirkman and Chris Samnee's new series that we want to stress is definitely not an Iron Fist book, Riverdale, Legend of Zelda, Critical Role, Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, Power Rangers, Investi-Gators,[...]

The Absolute Carnage trade paperback by Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman was solicited as collecting Absolute Carnage #1-5 and at 176 pages, would cost $24.99. However, retailers have just been told by Marvel that it will now collect Absolute Carnage #1-5 and the Free Comic Book Day Venom/Spider-Man comic that set it up back in May[...]

Free Comic Book Day is a time for a celebration of comic books, all they can do and all they can appeal to There are comics for everyone, from everyone, in a spirit of freedom and creative prosperity that is hard to argue with And, along the way, some sarcastic and pointed put-downs of everything[...]