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  In a press release sent out to their second tier media partners, Marvel Comics announced today that it will make a special appearance on first tier media partner ABC's Good Morning America show on Friday, May 5, the day before Free Comic Book Day The press release doesn't mention which exciting Marvel personalities will appear[...]

Have you ever wanted your own Adam Kubert? Well, you're in luck, because Kubert is selling himself on eBay right now, with 100% of the winning bid going to The Hero Initiative, a charity that helps comic book creators in need with "emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and entree back into[...]

Despite – or because – Free Comic Book Day restricted their free comic books to fifty titles last year, orders were up to 6 million in total for 2016. But at ComicsPRO, Diamond told retailers that this year – with 52 titles for Free Comic Book Day – orders had been placed for over 5.3 million copies, a similar[...]

  May 6th sees 2000AD, now in its fortueth year, issues a brand new freebie comic for Free Comic Book Day Initially they thought they'd been excluded for providing an anthology, but that soon turned around.The galaxy's greatest Eisner-nominated SF anthology returns to Free Comic Book Day with a 32 page, And here's a preview…[...]

Skottie Young has a new I Hate Fairyland comic for Free Comic Book Day… and it's the big crossover with the rest of Image Comics as… I Hate Image! Featuring characters from Saga, The Walking Dead, Savage Dragon, Spawn, Descender, Black Science, Southern Bastards, and more. And a far more practical use for Lying Cat[...]

Woodward, out on May 6th for Free Comic Book Day And it highlights a very different character, in the Star Trek parallel universe where all sorts of naughty things happened. Lieutenant Barclay, as portrayed by Dwight Schultz, who appeared occasionally on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Voyager. It's not the first[...]

You might know him from GI Joe, New Titans or Green Arrow. Well, on Free Comic Book Day, you will know him for his work on Catalyst Prime, the Lion Forge comic that is launching a new superhero universe and being called by people like me, the new Milestone Comics. They already released a few pages from the[...]

We knew that Marvel's Silver title for Free Comic Book Day this year was Guardians Of The Galaxy related Now we know it will have a Defenders story too. Well, there is a new Guardians film out on the same weekend as FCBD this year And a new Defenders TV show landing from Netflix And new[...]

Back in December, DC's Free Comic Book Day comics were still a secret, but that secret has been revealed today in an official press release So DC's Free Comic Book Day titles will be… WONDER WOMAN FCBD 2017 SPECIAL EDITION (Writer) Greg Rucka, (Artist) Nicola Scott New York Times best-selling writer Greg Rucka and fan-favorite artist Nicola Scott weave the definitive[...]

Archie Comics originally announced that its silver title for Free Comic Book Day in May 2017 would be as Sonic: Genesis of a Hero. (W) Ian Flynn (A) Tracy Yardley, Terry Austin (CA) Jamal Peppers, Gary Martin Sonic is back for Free Comic Book Day! Turn back time and witness the "Genesis of a Hero" as Sonic enters[...]

Bleeding Cool understands that Marvel's secretive Free Comic Book Day gold title, solicited thus: Don't miss this year's Free Comic Book Day titles from Marvel, each featuring two 10-page stories that set the stage for upcoming game-changers in the Marvel Universe! We can't tell you too much-but we think this one will get your spider-sense tingling![...]

And he has the cover splash to Fantagraphics Free Comic Book Day title, World's Greatest Cartoonists, alongside Dash Shaw, Simon Hanselmann, Emil Ferris, Richard Sala, Ed Piskor and Jason. Noah also has some very different opinions to his brother. And on May 6th, you get to discover them for free. Noah Van Sciver, known in some places[...]

In earlier listing of the Humanoids' Free Comic Book Day title, The Incal, they listed the creators as Alejandro Jodorowsky, Moebius and U-Jin… the last creator was erroneous, and anyone googling U-Jin to see what they had done would only find some rather exotic Japanese manga erotica… So it is just Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius in Humanoids'[...]

Chapterhouse Comics are putting out their Captain Canuck comic for Free Comic Book Day next May By Jay Baruchel, Marcus To, David Finch. Which is quite impressive from the get go. They've also got a Die Kitty Die – Summer BBQ Party story by Archie favourites Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz. You can find more on Free Comic Book[...]

It follows a pair of sisters orphaned by the Spill. The oldest, Addison, is a young adult providing for her little sister by sneaking into the Zone and taking photographs of the strange phenomena there—the ultimate outsider art. Her little sister, Lexa, hasn't spoken since the Spill, but has an eerie connection with the doll she carried[...]

All the titles for Free Comic Book Day 2016 have now been released But here's one that's a little bit special Malika, Warrior Queen by Nigerian creator and publisher Roye Okupe and Chima Kalu, from YouNeek Studios. It's the launch title in comic stores for what they call the YouNeek Youngverse. And Bleeding Cool has had our first look[...]

The new superhero universe line from Lion Forge, showrun by Joe Illidge, is to launch on Free Comic Book Day 2017, that's May 6th to you and me. And that first issue, Catalyst Prime: The Event is by Christopher Priest, Joseph Illidge, Marco Turini and Jessica Kholinne. Can Bleeding Cool say that *this* is the issue to get[...]

It was announced earlier this year, but has now been rescheduled for Free Comic Book Day, on May 6th next year. That's the first glimpse you'll get of Keyser Soze: Scorched Earth telling the official origin of the lead character of the movie The Usual Suspects. The first story arc is set nine years before the events[...]

Free Comic Book Day has announced its Silver titles for 2017. We know Marvel Comics has a secret Gold Book for Free Comic Book Day – though it will also have something Spider-Man related as well. Well, now we know their Silver book is also secret, for now Though it will also have something Guardians Of The[...]

Free Comic Book Day has announced its Silver titles for 2017. Including Underdog, a new comic book from American Mythology Press, based on the classic cartoon to accompany the likes of Pink Panther and The Three Stooges. No more details as yet… For more on Free Comic Book Day 2017 at Bleeding Cool, click here. Or wait until 6th[...]

Free Comic Book Day has announced its Silver titles for 2017. And that included Fresh Off The Boat, by Gene Luen Yang from Boom! Studios. The same name as the TV sitcom on ABC, based on the story Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang, which covers similar territory to Yang's American Born Chinese. I'm sure Boom[...]

Free Comic Book Day has announced its Silver titles for 2017 Including two from publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The first is a sampler of two upcoming, politically-minded D+Q releases in translation Hostage by Guy Delisle (out in Ma!) and Poppies of Iraq (by Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim) out next autumn The first selection, from Hostage, describes[...]

The final 38 titles of Free Comic Book Day 2017 have been announced today – we were first to tell you about the Gold titles, the toys and statues (as well as amends to those) and we wanted to keep that going for the Silver titles Though we already worked out that Catalyst Prime from[...]

We expect to discover details of the final 38 titles of Free Comic Book Day today – we were first to tell you about the Gold titles, the toys and statues (as well as amends to those) and we want to keep that going for the Silver titles Though we already worked out that Catalyst[...]

Catalyst Prime is the revived name by Lion Forge Comics for a new superhero line with an emphasis on diversity headed up by Joe Illidge and a creative line-up to die for. And it has a website, counting down 141 days. That's May 6th, Free Comic Book Day Which is when Lion Forge look to be launching Catalyst[...]

There have been some big changes to the Free Comic Book Day 2017 toys and statues offerings that Bleeding Cool scooped the news on back in September. So I thought I'd take the opportunity to run what we listed – and then what the changes are. The WizKids/NECA's Free Comic Book Day 2017 Marvel HeroClix Exclusive Figure 50-ct[...]

In doing so, Valiant also outlined the first year's worth of story arcs in advance, and revealed that they would be teaming a writer Matt Kindt with an all-star roster of interior artists across the series' first 13 issues that is already slated to include Tomas Giorello, Doug Braithwaite, Clayton Crain , Ryan Bodenheim, and[...]

Free Comic Book Day is coming… May 6th 2017… and Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the twelve gold titles that all stores must offer to participate. We ran a few of them earlier – here are the ones from Marvel, DC, Image, IDW, Titan and Dark Horse. But here are the others…   FCBD 2017 Betty & Veronica[...]

Free Comic Book Day is coming… May 6th 2017… and Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the gold titles that all stores must offer to participate. Including a Four Doctors crossover comic that features the first comics appearance of new companion Bill, to be seen in the Christmas Special. DOCTOR WHO — FCBD 2017 EDITION TITAN COMICS (W) Alex[...]

Free Comic Book Day is coming… May 6th 2017… and Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the gold titles that all stores must offer to participate. And it's the biggest Image Comics crossover you've ever seen, courtesy of Skottie Young and his I Hate Fairyland series I Hate Image! I HATE IMAGE — FCBD 2017 EDITION (W/A/CA) Skottie[...]