FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2024 • cover art • Mike Mignola • DHC [May 2024]

To anybody who likes comics and is in America, today is free comic book day! Depending on the shop closest to you, the sales might be different, but it’s worth going to check it out. Free Comic Book day has it’s own official site, and you can put your location in and it will find your closest store participating. It most likely will also describe the sales they are having. Have fun!! :)

Once again we had an awesome Free Comic Book Day this past Saturday!! 😁😁 The weather was also good for it too so plenty of people could walk in off the street and could wait outside if need be. so that was really good. and of course we had lots of books and lots of people!! but no early birds this year people didn't start showing up until 10-10:30 which was good too we got there at 9:30am and there was no one which I was surprised about but being we didn’t open until 11am so people who showed before then didn't have to wait too long while we got everything set up. but yeah things were moving pretty quickly and smoothly again this year plus we had some treats to munch on, plenty of sales and of course Free Comics!! here is what I brought home from Free Comic Book Day 2024

Happy Free Comic Book Day everyone

Got this comic for free comic book day! Apparently it’s a reboot of this manga; Unico. It looks cute

MAD magazine Free Comic Book Day 2024 Special Announced By DC Comics (UPDATED April 2024)

By Chet Reams

DC Comics is preparing to issue a special edition of MAD just for Free Comic Book Day this year, 2024.

The promotional text for the special reads as follows: “America’s longest-running satire magazine continues to skewer everything pop culture, this time in comic book size! This Free Comic Book Day special edition of MAD features a wide variety of classic favorites like “Spy vs. Spy”, and “A MAD Look at…” by Sergio Aragonés. Plus, some maniacal mockeries of some of your favorite DC Superheroes, and a whole lot more from the Usual Gang of Idiots. This special edition will surely cure what ails you with a shot of humor in the jugular vein. And it is even cheaper than the usual CHEAP! Because it is FREE! So, you really would be an idiot if you didn’t go out and grab one!”

While the official cover artwork has not been revealed yet, Crypt Of MADness will update this post as soon as it comes out, so check back! April 23, 2024 Update: The official cover art (with a Superman illustration by Kerry Callen) appears to be posted on Amazon USA (for the Digital Edition/comiXology Edition at least) - so we have updated this post with the image posted below:

Tante novità per il Free Comic Book Day Italia 2024

Nato negli Stati Uniti nel 2001 e arrivato nel nostro Paese nel 2016 il Free Comic Book Day, l’appuntamento annuale che permette a lettori e appassionati di leggere grandi anteprime di volumi a fumetti di recente o prossima uscita, quest’anno, grazie alla collaborazione con il Free Comic Book Day USA e all’organizzazione della società di promozione editoriale Promocomix, si terrà a fine…

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Ken Pierce Media Posts 600th Clip on TikTok

Ken Pierce Media Posts 600th Clip on TikTok

Greetings and Felicitations Friends of the Ken Pierce Media realm and all of our entertainment efforts. It’s once again time to make a post about the Official TikTok for KPM hitting its next plateau and once again this was done is just over a one month period. We have now pressed publish on the 600th clip and its a fun one as it relates to a happening that I greatly enjoy around this time of the…

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FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2024 • Saturday • May 4th 2024

The full scope of Free Comic Book Day 2024 revealed, with both Gold and Silver tiers

We’ve already told you about the Gold level titles arriving for Free Comic Book Day 2024, but the silver list is maybe even more impressive.

FCBD 2024, Part 5 of 5

Spider-man Ultimate Universe - This is not the same Ultimate Universe we saw years ago, but an entirely different one. Some powerful time-traveller has manipulated history to remove superheroes, and install a secret ruling elite of supervillains. Except he missed a bunch of superheroes, both in recent times and in the past, because here we have Spidey, Iron Man, Cap, and Doctor Doom. They're trying to find one of Cap's buddies from WWII. So that's another hero that this hero-erasing big bad failed to erase. This hero is held in a bunker that's filled with costumes and corpses of other heroes and villains. Where did these come from if they were prevented from arising? Clearly the blurb at the front of the comic left out a lot. When there are already so many alternate versions of superheroes running around, and status quos changing frequently, it's honestly hard to get excited about another alternate group of characters.

Blood Hunt - I like vampires, so we're off to a good start. The vampires have a plan that involves exploiting some Marvel lore and some characters who aren't seen too often. That's cool. The last page suggests it's not afraid of embracing a little camp, which suggests fun. Blood Hunt seems promising. The second half is about Jubilee dealing with the new status quo for mutants after the fall of Krakoa. I have to admit I can't be objective about this because I have seen the X-comics change their worlds and go to new interesting places only to come back to the same old thing over and over again. And here we have Jubilee watching the Xavier school get rebuilt for the 947,000th time. And mutants are again a persecuted minority who have to stay hidden. Of course they can make good stories out of this. I would prefer to have sense of progress or the X comics (and superheroes in general) that lasts more than a few years.

Marvel Voices - The first couple of stories here feel new. They are short vignettes that serve as introductions to Pavitr Prabhakar, the Spider-Man of Earth 50101, and Ghost Spider, aka Spider-Gwen. They're light, fun stories. The other three seem to be samples from upcoming issues. There's one about a character called Muzzle who I'm not familiar with. They're part of a gang of principled criminals, and get into a scrap with an unidentified version of Spider-Man. (I'm not up to date on Spidey comics.) Is this another alternate Earth? I can't tell. Then there's a few pages of Gambit fighting people. The sample is too short to convey anything meaningful about the story it's taken from. That's also true of the last sample, in which a literally nameless, mythological-looking guy is pounding on the shield around Wakanda, and Shuri is preparing to fight him. It's two pages. There are ads for other Marvel Voices series that look cool, but I hope there is more to them than what we see here.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Now for an entirely different kind of mutant. "Who Is…Nightwatcher?" Based on their general shape, I'm betting Nightwatcher is one of the turtles. But who knows. This one pulls a neat trick, where the narrative boxes don't match what we're seeing in the panels until a reveal at the end which puts them in a very different context. I get tired of characters narrating and commenting on their own stories through narrative boxes (just plain narration is often more efficient and more clear), but this put it to good use. Nicely done. This does make me curious about what has been going on over in IDW's version of the turtles' world. The second story is a fun one with the old school turtles and Master Splinter called "Splinter's Day Off".

Sorry if I was picky or generally a downer about the Marvel ones. It's still early as I write this, and maybe I am too uncaffinated or grumpy for some as yet undetermined cause. Feel free to take those reviews with a grain of salt, and as always, your mileage may vary.

Don't forget!! May 4 is not only Star Wars Day but it is also Free Comic Book Day so go down and support your local shop and not only will there be free comics and plenty of fun they will probably have sales on stuff I know we are. We're going to be open early so I'll have to be down there at like 9am but yeah go and enjoy some comic booky fun!

Comic - Mad Magazine 2024 FCBD Special Edition (2024)

Art by Kerry Callen

for Free Comic Book Day, I’ve put up a free zine on patreon. Please check it out.