Today, May 6th, was Free Comic Book Day! This is always the next day after the opening of a Marvel movie, in this case, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The event is to get customers into comic book stores. Trade paperbacks are sold online and through book stores, but single issues are sold exclusively at comic retailers. The Free Comic Book Day website gives notification of the titles and information about the day: https://www.freecomicbookday.com. The comic books are put out on tables and eager fans select from the number of free comics. They are Gold and Silver level of comics from various publishers. I heard that the video game titles were prized.
Table of FCBD comics!
I picked up a few titles; first is Animal Castle Volume 2, this is a comic book from Ablaze. They have a number of adult titles like Guillem March’s Laura, manga, and adaptations like Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath. Animal Castle is by writer, Xavier Dorison, and artist, Felix Delep, both working in French comics. It is a twist on George Orwell’s Animal Farm with an abadoned farm turned under the rule of a bull, President Silvio. This is not for children with a brutalized hen tied to a stake and a rooster declaring her a criminal for keeping her egg. The animal expressions are something out of Disney, like Robin Hood (1973). An intelligent rat, Azelar may get the white cat, Miss B, to have the farm animals resist the rule enforced by the dogs.
The second title I sampled is Mech Cadets, there is a small circle that notes that it will soon be Netflix animated series. The free comic book is from kaBoom!, the young readers division of Boom Entertainment. It is of course based on the 2017 Boom Studios limited series. The issue is by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa. The comic begins at the Sky Corps Academy where a an officer gives a ceremony speech. He tells the cadets about the alien invasion sixty years ago which was stopped by Skip Tanaka and his robo mech partner. Watching the ceremony is Stanford who is called back by his mother to continue cleaning! He is overheard by Cadet Park! The robo mechs land and choose partners. Stanford accidentally finds a robo mech bringing him a lost metal piece and is chosen! A great start for a very mecha style series! There is an interview and designs of the animated show.
Animal Castle Volume 2, Mech Cadets, Ranger Academy comics!
The other title is another Boom! Studios comic book, Ranger Academy, it has a painted cover by Miguel Mercado. The story is by Maria Ingrande Mora featuring art by Jo Mi-Gyeong. This is of course the 30th Anniversary of the Power Rangers and this is an original story with new characters. The free comics usually are short stories or reprints, this comic is a complete story. It begins with the Knights of Stardust protecting a queen from enemies to end of a cliff! Mi-Gyeong’s art has the fun and energy of manga. This is just the dreams of the shepherd, Sage, who is interrupted by a storm. She gathers her goat-like herd on the moon of Vaela. Sage finds a crashed ship and climbs down to find that the crash and the storm has endangered two cadets, Tula and Mathis. She shows bravery and cleverness enough for the Ranger Academy, but Sage’s father objects to her leaving for the academy! This is a great intro to the series and we should get to the Ranger Academy and the other cadets. There is some great comics on Free Comic Book Day, the store I checked out had free Mandalorian season 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 posters, plus some Guardian stickers from the movie, Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania hat and keychain. I hope everyone had picked up some great free comics, deals, and extras!
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