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To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Now we have the second issue in Peter Milligan and Piotr Kowalski's series Terminal[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Originally published by Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel, Jim Starlin's grand space adventure[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Here we have the second issue of Joshua Hale Failkov and Matt Triano's series[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. Here we have the first issue of Jae Lee's Hellshock The book was originally[...]

The first Free Comic Book Day comic of 2016 to disappear from their stacks was the new Pink Panther comic from American Mythology Productions Kids and adults went mad for it. Thankfully my littlest one grabbed her copy! Look, he's dressed as Thor! We highlighted the comic here…. Gosh really is the place for kids to come today…. Eve[...]

I remember when there were only two stores in the whole of the UK who did Free Comic Book Day Now almost everyone does it. And Forbidden Planet in Glasgow at 7.40am, people were already lining up. pic.twitter.com/QZr9yijkfA — FPGlasgow (@FPGlasgow) May 7, 2016 And outside Orbital Comics in London right now, an hour before opening… There are some comics[...]

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day 2016. But if you can't quite wait and want free comic books now, and don't mind them digital, but do want them legal, here is how to go about it. As well as a bunch of previews and previous FCBD titles, Marvel has Marvel's The Avengers #1, Marvel's Avengers Alliance #1,[...]

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day and one of the offerings is the Valiant: 4001 A.D FCBD Special… say that three times fast The issue features the talents of writers Matt Kindt, Jody Houser, Jeff Lemire and Rafer Roberts And the art of Clayton Henry, Trevor Hairsine, David Lafuente, Francis Portela, Pere Perez, Mico Suayan[...]

I've talked about some other Free Comic Book Day titles for 2016 – such as DC Super Hero Girls, Valiant 4001 AD, Suicide Squad, Civil War II, Spectrum, Serenity, Archie Comics, Sonic The Hedgehog, Rom/Action Man and Avatarex… that's ten. There's fifty in total Well here are another 37… I'll catch up[ on the remaining three tomorrow,[...]

This year's Free Comic Book Day titles are covered in ads for the San Diego Comic Con streaming video service, Comic Con HQ with a free beta signup from Saturday running through this year's San Diego Comic Con It's a fantastic piece of branding and a very attractive offer Especially because, since it's Free Comic[...]

Jen King, Owner of Eisner nominated Space Cadets Collection Collection, tells us why you should show your local comic book store some love on Free Comic Book Day this Saturday. It seems to happen every year A customer comes in and wants to pick up 20 copies of one of the FCBD titles being offered[...]

Nathan Fillion is on the front cover of two titles for Free Comic Book Day this year Spectrum #0 published by Automatic Publishing and Serenity published by Dark Horse Comics. Spectrum is the comic of the show within the show, Con Man, and by PJ Haarsma, Alan Tuydyk and Sarah Stone A full size comic story,[...]

The Avatarex Free Comic Book Day giveaway this Saturday shows off a preview of Grant Morrison's new comic series for the publisher. But also we get to see something rarely glimpsed A few pages of Grant Morrison's script for the series. So we have page one, drawn by Jeevan J Kang. And then the script that describes it. Note[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpDc2V0Fv4UVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: A Comic Show Explains Free Comic Book Day 2016! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpDc2V0Fv4U)  Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop runs through the best free comic books of Free Comic Book Day 2016… Hey everyone! Want some FREE COMICS? Get to a comic shop on Saturday May 7th! In this video I explain[...]

Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA and Forbidden Planet of the UK aren't just satisfied with giving away the fifty free Free Comic Book Day titles Three of them will have their own unique covers.   A Spectrum #0 Exclusive featuring a cover by video game artist Kindra Haugen – the only limited edition cover for Spectrum #0 available on Free[...]

Do you remember when Corey Feldman worked in a comic book store? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I1zVlt1Vtg The actor is currently trying to raise

Free Comic Book Day will be here before we know it PreviewsWorld reminded us with this Thor photo… What comic shop are you going to for FCBD? Use #FCBD2016 and tag them to let them know you'll be there May 7th! pic.twitter.com/CyaQNXiRRD — PREVIEWSworld (@PREVIEWSworld) April 18, 2016 But out of all the titles, there are five in[...]

We've been looking at a couple of amazing Free Comic Book Days in London, but now it's time to stretch further afield This year The Comic Bug of Manhattan Beach and Culver City, California is stretching its Free Comic Book Day into three locations. The Culver City Teen Center next door to their Culver store will[...]

Shown off at the Diamond Retailer Breakfast ahead of C2E2 this morning, was cover art for the Dead No More storyline for The Amazing Spider-Man debuting in Marvel's Free Comic Book Day offering. And, yes, that looks like Spider-Man's Uncle Ben upfront and centre…. But is that Captain Stacy behind him? Looks like all sorts of folk[...]

Just like last year, Free Comic Book Day 2016 will have fifty titles to be given away on the first Saturday in May. Well, someone who didn't make the cut isn't stopping them. Ryan Browne, Mike Norton, Tim Seeley and Luke Smarto of Four Star Studios are making their own Free Comic Book Day title, and publishing[...]

We mentioned when they were announced that DC Comics may have made a mistake making the reissue of Suicide Squad #1 their Gold title for Free Comic Book Day That's the title which all participating stores need to order 25 copies of, and gets extra promotion And choosing this comic, even with the movie, rather[...]

Best Beware My Sting. Brian Michael Bendis and Jim Cheung will launch Civil War II With Marvel's Gold offering for Free Comic Book Day this year. While in the back, Mark Waid and Alan Davis will launch the new Wasp for the Marvel Universe. Are they friend or foe? How will their coming impact on the lives of[...]

As well as the fifty books for next year's Free Comic Book Day, Funko will be providing comic stores will special Free Comic Book Day figures from Funko's Dorbz line, exclusive to the promotion. Called Captain America; Civil War Unmasked, they will consist of a Steve Rogers and a Tony Stark figure, Retailers can order them in[...]

    Here are the remaining 35 Free Comic Book Day titles for 2016 – including the 2000AD edition with a Eric Powell Judge Dredd story that was previously reported as refused by the committee Looks like a little outrage went a long way.  Add to that Attack On Titan, One Punch Man, Stan Lee's The Unknowns,[...]

The official Free Comic Book Day T-shirts for 2016 are from Art Baltazar and Francesco Francavilla The first showing off Itty Bitty Hellboy and Aw Yeah Comics The second showing off a wide variety of comic genres, including science fiction, superheroes and horror. The T-Shirts aren't free though It's not Free T-Shirt Day after all,  Small to XXXL and women's V-neck sizes[...]

We mentioned that Dynamite Entertainment had a Bob's Burgers book as a Gold Book title for Free Comic Book Day, the titles that all retailers have to order to participate in the event. Well, they also have a silver title for Grumpy Cat – which has more leeway for ordering…   Here's the bumf. Next up, Grumpy Cat, the internet's[...]

We have no 2000AD… but we do have 4001AD… Valiant Entertainment is one of the Gold Sponsors of Free Comic Book Day next year for their first time And they will be using their offering to promote 2016's summer event 4001 AD, which launches in May. A four issue mini-series by Matt Kindt and Clayton Crain, 4001 AD[...]

On Sunday, the Facebook page for Free Comic Book Day posted the following, HOW'S YOUR COMIC BOOK GAME? Let's separate the purists from the n00bs and see how hardcore some of you so-called "comic fans" are. Name the character below Those who guess correctly get absolute bragging rights and our respect Those who guess incorrectly (or remain silent)[...]

Bleeding Cool has looked at publishers who feel they have been forced out of Free Comic Book Day by the falling maximum price allowed to charge retailers of 20 cents a comic (of which Diamond takes an estimated 5 cents). One Bleeding Cool reader, Brent Erwin who has been both a publisher and retailer during FCBD[...]

This morning, Bleeding Cool broke the story that 2000AD had been rejected from 2016's Free Comic Book Day despite having a lineup of new original material that included Eric Powell, Joelle Jones, Laura Allred and Mike Allred The story was soon confirmed. We then told you that ComixTribe felt they had to withdraw their original content[...]