Free Comic Book Day was a bit of a damp squib in 2020 When FCBD was cancelled, the books had already been printed, and when it was rearranged for a month-long promotion, it didn't have the impact the original would have done, with many stores operating social distancing or being closed entirely As a result,[...]
Diamond Comic Distributors has announced that Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) for 2021 has been scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 14th, 2021, the weekend after the planned release of The Suicide Squad movie Diamond states that "the event, which traditionally takes place on the first Saturday in May, will be celebrated in August[...]
This year's Free Comic Book Day wes cancelled - but all publishers had, at the time, printed all their FCBD titles What were they to do? Well, DC Comics pulped the entire print run of one of their comics, as it contained a new DC Timeline created by their former publisher Dan DiDio, which no[...]
Originally planned for Free Comic Book Day earlier this year, Marvel's X-Men comic ran an X Of Swords preview (if we but knew it) by Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz later in the summer For days of mutants yet to come, creatures summoning other creature, a visit to the Starlight Citadel and a tarot reading[...]
He writes: With everything going on, we had our replacement for Free Comic Book Day, Rodman Comics Day. This was our first sales day after reopening To get people excited about Rodman Comics Day, one of the many things we have done with previous sales was to give gift bags to the first certain number of people in[...]
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 there were a couple of books missing. One, Fire Power #1 has already been rescheduled for July 1st, on the same day as the Fire Power, Vol. 1: Prelude […]
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...[caption id="attachment_1201690" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Brett Booth and Scott Lobdell's New Instagram Comic, A Hero Forged Art from Instagram.[/caption]A figure in[...]
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.[caption id="attachment_1196862" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Scott Lobdell is Creating a Free Comic Book Day For The World Image via Scott Lobdell.[/caption]As well as creating new X-Men fanfic on Instagram, he writes "Every Sunday until this thing passes (and let’s hope it is[...]
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[...]
