Free Comic Book Day '09 (Saturday, May 2nd)

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What is Free Comic Book Day?
Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores. *Check with your local shop for their participation and rules.
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The Best Free Comics To Bring You Up To Super-Speed

By Graeme McMillan, 9:00 AM on Fri May 1 2009,

Tomorrow is 2009's Free Comic Book Day, when all manner of publishers release free books to celebrate the medium and try and get some new readers into characters they hadn't previously considered. Here're our favorites.

If you've been craving some superhero action but don't know what's going on with your old favorites, DC's Blackest Night #0 and Marvel's Free Comic Book Day Avengers both offer all-new stories that'll bring you up to speed in a fast and stylish manner; both books are written and drawn by the company's top talent (Night boasts story by Geoff Johns and art by Ivan Reis, while Avengers is a Brian Michael Bendis and Jim Cheung co-creation), and hint at what's to come fairly effectively. Other superhero thrills can be found in Wolverine: Origin of an X-Man (Just in time for this weekend's X-Men Origins: Wolverine release), Image's Savage Dragon [HASHTAG]#148[/HASHTAG] and Cyberforce/Hunter Killer Preview, and new indie comic Fist of Justice.

If you'd rather look for some more familar characters, Dark Horse and IDW have you covered; the former are putting out two books, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Aliens/Predator, while IDW have a Transformers/GI Joe flipbook ready and waiting for you. If that's not enough, the Dabel Bros. Showcase offers a new Dresden Filesstory as well as - weirdly enough - a preview of an upcoming Star Wars novel from publishing partners Del Rey, while Boom! have a new Warhammer preview (as well as a reprint of the first issue of their Cars series) and Mirage reprint the first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to celebrate the characters' 25th anniversary.

Of course, there's also all manner of new work out there for you to discover tomorrow as well. Our pick would be Oni Press' Resurrection #0 (tying in with this week's Resurrection collection, offering up a view of life post-alien invasion), the Comics Festival collection of Canadian cartoonists and, of course, Fantagraphics' Love and Rockets Sampler... which may be neither new nor sci-fi, but is still some of the best comics out there.
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Think I might stop into my shop and pick up that Avengers freebie.
 
I'll probably pick up:
Bongo Free-For-All (with The Simpsons)
Contract #1
Love & Rockets Sampler
Arcana Studios Presents
Resurrection #0
Comics Festival

I've discovered quite a few good comics over the years in FCBD freebies.

Too bad there's no Buffy one.
 
I seem to recall TFAW sending me a free comic book last year, though I can't remember which one. Not one of the Whedonverse titles, though. Up until then, I had never heard of a free comic day.
 
I go every year (not this year tho) and pick up everything, but they end up just lying around somewhere taking up the dust.
 
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fenner? bad girls fan?? me loves u hehe
I tried going to my local comic store for this (and also to pick up Buffy issue 18, which is the only one I'm missing). The line was out the door, down the block, and around the corner. I had gone at about noon, so the store had been open for a while. It was also raining outside. I didn't bother lining up.

I think especially the way the economy is right now, "free" is looking especially appealing.
 
I wasn't able to get to a comic store today, but last year, I did get a free All-Star Superman comic with my Buffy season 8 for Free Comic Book Day.
 
Heh... I went to "Free Comic Book Day" and ended up dropping $36. I got my free comics, the new issues of "Conan" and "Wonder Woman" (which were not free)... I got to meet a couple of local authors and got signed books from them... and I picked up the next "Fables" trade paperback while I was at it. Also, among the cosplayers there was a really hot girl in a really sexy elf princess costume.

So yeah, it was fun.
 
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Crazy Flakes
Fables karma!
Such a great idea. I didn't get to any comic book shop today, but when I buy something online from Forbidden Planet, they tend to throw in some of the free comics. So maybe soon.
^ And Fables Karma. My current hometown. < 😀
 
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