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Free Comic Book Day - May 5, 2007

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  • MenaceMenace regular
    edited May 2007
    Menace wrote: »
    that's, uh, that's how it works, is it not?

    That's what I assumed, but the way people were talking here made me think some of their shops were doing something different.

    individual stores have sales and the like

    mine has 25% off all trades and various other percentages off things like shirts, figures, and posters

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited May 2007
    My regular shop wasn't doing anything for FCBD. They didn't even have the free comics. So I went to another shop, and picked up the Wolf-Man and Spider-Man issues, along with Dark Tower #4 and Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four #1.

    Pretty good day.

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  • NewtronNewtron Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Wolf-man was alright. I'm hoping it will get better.

    Iron Man & Hulk is pretty good.

    The Transformers movie prequel comic is alright, nothing spectacular though (cept the art).

    Amazing Spider-Man and "Unseen Peanuts" are my favorites though.

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  • hughtronhughtron __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2007
    It's a pretty Big Deal in Halifax, and one of the shops here had to rent out a church hall for FCBD. They basically use it as an excuse to get rid of all the comics they know won't sell. They had like 150 people waiting in line at 10:00 this morning when I stopped by, and that was before the hotshot cartoonists were there.

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  • Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Hughtron I can't decide if what you just described is touching or disturbing.

    Ahh what the heck, touching it is :)

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2007
    Today was a damn good day. Picked up Wolf-Man, Spidey and JLofA #0. My shop had a "Buy 1 Back Issue get one of the same value free" deal going, so I picked up any JSofA and Moon Knight I was missing and the first 3 issues of JLofA.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Man, I had a pretty good FCBD. I went to three of the four comic shops in town and got hooked up with most of the stuff I wanted, plus I got some copies for my nephew and niece. One of the shops did even better, giving out some older issues that they had in excess stock. Even better, I met a local artist who has had a bit of his art published. Hopefully that'll be a good contact or something, since his art's pretty good.

    So anyway, this is what I got:

    Spider-Man: Swing Shift
    Painkiller Jane #0
    Shadowflame #1
    Whiteout #1
    Astounding Wolf-Man #1
    Worlds of Aspen Sampler
    Dark Horse Sampler (Umbrella Academy, Zerokiller, Pantheon City)
    Liberty Comics #0
    Sonic the Hedgehog
    Love and Capes #4
    Sensational Spider-Man #25

    I'm not even finished reading my comics. However, the Marvel stuff was really good. Wolf-Man, I'm still not sure about though. I think I'll give it a few more issues before I make a decision on it.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Swing Shift was really cute, in that innocent goofy throwback way

    I love any comic where cake is a subplot

    Also this
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    Spoilered cuz huge

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2007
    I really, really like Phil Jimenez's art.

    It's like a cleaner George Perez.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited May 2007
    Just a quick question for Swing Shift:
    Jackpot was Mary Jane, right? Or was at least supposed to make us think it was her?

    I mean, I've heard something important was supposed to have happened in it, and that's something I can see being brought up again.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Geebs wrote: »
    Just a quick question for Swing Shift:
    Jackpot was Mary Jane, right? Or was at least supposed to make us think it was her?

    I mean, I've heard something important was supposed to have happened in it, and that's something I can see being brought up again.
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be Mary Jane, "Tiger" being the strongest hint.

    I hope it's addressed... sometime in the future

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Seemed like an out of continuity story, though.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited May 2007
    No, it's supposedly in continuity, just set well before Civil War (and apparently JMS's run).

    And another hint was
    Her name was Jackpot. As in, "Face it tiger, you just hit the ___"

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Man, Astounding Wolf-Man was awesome. I love the idea of a yuppie werewolf. Even better was the preview for a new, monthly Brit book.

    Spider-Man Swing Shift was pretty good, but I think they could have cut out
    Jackpot and the story wouldn't have suffered at all. Still, it was a fun little throwback to a simpler time for Spidey.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2007
    Munch wrote: »
    Man, Astounding Wolf-Man was awesome. I love the idea of a yuppie werewolf. Even better was the preview for a new, monthly Brit book.

    Spider-Man Swing Shift was pretty good, but I think they could have cut out
    Jackpot and the story wouldn't have suffered at all. Still, it was a fun little throwback to a simpler time for Spidey.
    Munch, you think so much like me it scares me a little.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Menace wrote: »
    Wolf-Man was alright, though nothing really happened

    Uh, a guy got turned into Wolf-Man

    I mean, I don't know how much you expect to happen with characters you don't even know.

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  • MenaceMenace regular
    edited May 2007
    Jordyn wrote: »
    Menace wrote: »
    Wolf-Man was alright, though nothing really happened

    Uh, a guy got turned into Wolf-Man

    I mean, I don't know how much you expect to happen with characters you don't even know.

    I mean like all he did as Wolf-Man was kill a bunny

    which I suppose is pretty cool

    but as a person they didn't really talk about anything that much, just kind of his life as a normal dude and him being attacked, but nothing like revealing

    I know it's the first issue, but there's nothing really there to encourage reading on

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    The characters don't do much to distinguish themselves, but there aren't many parents of teenagers in comics so that alone may be interesting.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Munch, you think so much like me it scares me a little.

    That's because I'm you, just existing on a different vibrational frequency.
    The characters don't do much to distinguish themselves, but there aren't many parents of teenagers in comics so that alone may be interesting.

    Hm, weird. It really intrigued me. I mean, the protagonist is sort of atypical, being a happily married man and father, the wife actually had personality (the little jabs about smoking, the pretending to be asleep when bored by her husband), and the daughter isn't an angsty teen. I think the protagonist's relationship with his wife really drew me in too. It had that sort of Ralph and Sue Dibny-like, believable interplay. Too many comics have supporting characters that feel more like props than characters, so this is kind of fresh to me.

    Yeah it would have been cool to see him immediately go out and fight a supervillain or something, but Invincible started out with this same kind of slow pace, building the characters' personalities before delving into the superheroics, so I'm confident that Kirkman will deliver the goods by the time the first arc's wrapped up.

    I have to be honest though, mysterious bearded guy kind of made me roll my eyes.

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  • MenaceMenace regular
    edited May 2007
    yeah, I mean the characters seem fairly interesting and stuff

    the series could be pretty good, but the free comic was pretty meh

    though it was free so whatever, it was worth reading for free

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  • MenaceMenace regular
    edited May 2007
    I'm interested to see how they deal with the fact that he only changes on the full moon

    I assume the guy at the end will teach him how to control it or something

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2007
    Munch wrote: »
    Munch, you think so much like me it scares me a little.

    That's because I'm you, just existing on a different vibrational frequency.
    The characters don't do much to distinguish themselves, but there aren't many parents of teenagers in comics so that alone may be interesting.

    Hm, weird. It really intrigued me. I mean, the protagonist is sort of atypical, being a happily married man and father, the wife actually had personality (the little jabs about smoking, the pretending to be asleep when bored by her husband), and the daughter isn't an angsty teen. I think the protagonist's relationship with his wife really drew me in too. It had that sort of Ralph and Sue Dibny-like, believable interplay. Too many comics have supporting characters that feel more like props than characters, so this is kind of fresh to me.

    Yeah it would have been cool to see him immediately go out and fight a supervillain or something, but Invincible started out with this same kind of slow pace, building the characters' personalities before delving into the superheroics, so I'm confident that Kirkman will deliver the goods by the time the first arc's wrapped up.

    I have to be honest though, mysterious bearded guy kind of made me roll my eyes.
    You wanna be Earth-4 me, or should I be Earth-4 me?

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  • noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I was kinda dissapointed by Wolf-Man. It just feels really dated to me. Maybe that's what Kirkman was going for, but it just didn't click with me.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Redeemer wrote: »
    Geebs wrote: »
    Just a quick question for Swing Shift:
    Jackpot was Mary Jane, right? Or was at least supposed to make us think it was her?

    I mean, I've heard something important was supposed to have happened in it, and that's something I can see being brought up again.
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be Mary Jane, "Tiger" being the strongest hint.

    I hope it's addressed... sometime in the future

    I was about to come into this thread and ask about this
    MJ's wiki entry says absolutely nothing about it. Hell, we don't even know Jackpot's powers yet

    is it possible that she is like black cat, except with good luck instead of bad?

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  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    My LCS had the best FCBD ever, except that we could only take 2 of the major releases. I got Man-wolf and Spider-man, but my roommate's birthday was today, so I gave him Spidey and now I might not be able to read it for a while. I then proceeded to buy 52 49-52 w/WW3, Spirit #4, Punisher War Journal(Stilt-man's funeral), Immortal Iron Fist 1 director's cut, and 3 Cable and Deadpools. I spent 51 dollars.

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  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Also, the girl and guy behind the counter were wearing harley and joker makeup respectively, and the shop(The Laughing Ogre in Columbus) is huge and clean and welcoming and probably among the better shops I've been to. It was great.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I saw a few issues of 52, mostly in the thirties, but I didn't buy them because it was too late

    also I bought Kingdom Come

    holy shit

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Menace wrote: »
    Jordyn wrote: »
    Menace wrote: »
    Wolf-Man was alright, though nothing really happened

    Uh, a guy got turned into Wolf-Man

    I mean, I don't know how much you expect to happen with characters you don't even know.

    I mean like all he did as Wolf-Man was kill a bunny

    which I suppose is pretty cool

    but as a person they didn't really talk about anything that much, just kind of his life as a normal dude and him being attacked, but nothing like revealing

    I know it's the first issue, but there's nothing really there to encourage reading on

    uhhh, that night at the hospital, didn't he maybe
    kill that dude?

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  • MenaceMenace regular
    edited May 2007
    oh hey, he did

    you've won this round Jordyn

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  • MavinashMavinash Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Was going to say...

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I saw a few issues of 52, mostly in the thirties, but I didn't buy them because it was too late

    also I bought Kingdom Come

    holy shit

    Is that "holy shit" as in "Holy shit why didn't you guys tell me Kingdom Come was awesome?" Because we did. Like a million times.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    wwtMask wrote: »
    I saw a few issues of 52, mostly in the thirties, but I didn't buy them because it was too late

    also I bought Kingdom Come

    holy shit

    Is that "holy shit" as in "Holy shit why didn't you guys tell me Kingdom Come was awesome?" Because we did. Like a million times.

    No Holy Shit as in Holy shit, this is totally awesome. Like more awesomer than I expected

    yeah

    I said awesomer

    it's that awesome

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  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I saw a few issues of 52, mostly in the thirties, but I didn't buy them because it was too late

    also I bought Kingdom Come

    holy shit

    Buy the 52 trades when they come out.

    It'll be worth it.

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    I saw a few issues of 52, mostly in the thirties, but I didn't buy them because it was too late

    also I bought Kingdom Come

    holy shit

    Buy the 52 trades when they come out.

    It'll be worth it.

    Trades? Trades?? Be a man damnit.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Is 52 really all that worth it other than a few sweet moments?

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Is 52 really all that worth it other than a few sweet moments?

    Yes.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    52 has a ton of rad moments. The Kate Kane storyline was lame but pretty much everything else rocked.

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  • Magus DarkstarMagus Darkstar Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited May 2007
    If you didn't already buy the singles of 52, I'd suggest holding out for the trades.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    That's what I plan on doing.

    Though I am going to be reading Countdown because fuck, I hate having a week in my pull list where there is nothing.

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