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And it is doing so for Free Comic Book Day, an event at which it has regularly been present in past years Indeed, there may have been more Lady Mechanika comics from Free Comic Book Day than any other, I'd have to check But it seems possible. The Lady Mechanika Free Comic Book Day comic will[...]

Bleeding Cool scooped the world on the full list of FCBD (Free Comic Book Day) titles this morning But for all the Silver-tier books, we only got the cover, title and publisher – not what was actually inside the comic books Well, some more information has been dribbling out on social media since, here are[...]

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool scooped the news on the full Free Comic Book Day titles for the 14th of August, 2021, including Ed Piskor's new horror comic book series Red Room from Fantagraphics, which will launch for FCBD The Red Room Free Comic Book Day issue will feature 100% original content, exclusive to FCBD, and[...]

Yesterday saw the release of the Gold level Free Comic Book Day titles for FCBD August 14th 2021 Later today we'll see the release of the full details of the Silver Free Comic Book Day titles – officially But Bleeding cool has had a sneak peek at the covers, titles and publishers of all the[...]

The Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) Committee has selected the twelve Gold Sponsor comic book titles for Free Comic Book Day, for August 14th 2021, the first in two-and-a-half years They include a Something Is Killing The Children spinoff from James Tynion IV, new Star Wars High Republic, Critical Role and Witcher from Dark Horse,[...]

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

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[...]