Free Comic Book Day 2015
Disclaimer: This went down two Saturdays ago, but I held off on doing a write-up about it since my main acquisition was a special order that took a week to arrive, so I wanted to wait till I could show off my glorious prize.
When the owner of my local comic shop (pictured above, with unknown female) mentioned that the most important holiday of the year was coming up in a week a little while ago, I was stoked: along with the free comics, he promised cosplayers and food -- there were neither of the latter when I showed up, howeveer. Of course, it's possible that that all went down later in the day, but I wanted to show up early, before all the free stuff was gone. I'll have to ask the dude if there's an optimum time to show up next year. Consequently, aside from the table full of free comics, and a big crowd that was all up in the way of the graphic novel section, it ended up being a pretty normal day at Borderless Comics.
Too bad I don't have a camera on my phone, or I'd have some pics from the day, but due to the lack of anything particularly exciting going on, I don't suppose you're missing much.
Still, I got me some free comics, most of which weren't particularly notable. I guess that shouldn't be surprising, considering they were free. But here they are anyway...
Most notable I guess was that
2000 A.D. anthology. It had some Dredd and an assortment of other half-decent/meh stories, mostly of the OTP, old school sci fi/fantasy pulp variety. Then there was a two-part issue with a
Teen Titans Go! story about an all-girl slumber party, which was moderately amusing, backed with a
Super Friends/
Scooby Doo crossover that considerably less so. I was most stoked for issue of
The Tick that you can kind of make out at the back, but it was relatively meh. I'm intrigued by the
Fight Club comic, which is a new sequel to he original book. The Free Comic Book Day issue is apparently an introduction to the series, which will begin
actual publishing later this month. Was actually fairly cool. I'll actually be keeping an eye out for this new series.
I was more happy with a couple, small, free posters I picked up for
Spider-Woman and
Deadpool, which now proudly adorn my door, along with my Marvel calender. The camera on my computer sucks, and the lighting in my room is awful, so the pic I took doesn't look so great.
They're posters for the new issues of their respective series, so here's what they look like when not blurry and ugly.
****in' righteous. Any ladies looking to engage in sexual intercourse should form an orderly line and patiently wait their turn. There's enough Batlord for everybody. But the real story is that special order I made: all eight issues of
Elektra: Assassin. Aw, yeah.
Just picked those bad boys up today, and they are now one of the crowning achievements of my comic book collection, not to mention a significant step forward in my journey as a comic book nerd. Plenty of people have bought a comic book before, but how many have actually special ordered them? How many Dork Lords have put down money for a comic that they didn't even get until a week later? I think there's an outside chance that there are more active serial killers on Earth than there are people who have special ordered a comic book. The few. The not so proud.
Well, that's all for this year. Till next Free Comic Book Day, mother****ers!