Free Comic Book Day

[Tom Foolery]

It’s the first Saturday in May! You know what that means? Today is Free Comic Book Day!!

I didn’t get anything.

Fuck you, Covid-19.

[anarky]

I wonder how this will fuck up the plans of all the publishers who have FCBD first chapters to crossover events.

[Tom Foolery]

FCBD this year. I didn’t feel like digging thru endless boxes this weekend. Just wasn’t feeling it. But I went to four different shops and picked up the main Marvel and DC giveaways, as well as a dozen or so other free issues. Each shop was limiting to 3-5 per store, but one guy let me have 8, as long as I didn’t go crazy and take one of everything. I also spent a little $ at each place, but it was mostly filling in missing issues from the past couple months that had somehow slipped by.

The first shop I got the Fascimile of Amazing 129, and Venom 17.
The second shop I got a bundle of Superman/Authority 1-4 for $7, but it had the main cover of 1 and 3, and the variant cover for 2 and 4. Which is annoying to my brain. I also got Ghost Rider 12 and Shang-Chi 4 variant covers. I wanted the main covers, but that’s all they had.
The third store I found the regular Ghost Rider 12 and also bought a $30 blind box “worth” $100 but like last year it was stuff I already had or didn’t particularly want. Like a Disney keychain, a DC Multiverse figure of Bruce Wayne from the Batman movie(seriously? Peg warmin’ pos), a copy of Batman/Spawn, a couple variant covers of the Batman/Joker mini, and first issues of Scorched, Gunslinger Spawn, and King Spawn, as well as Spawn TPB.
The final store I found FF 3, Catwoman 54, and the Gotham Year One 6. I also got a Black Series Chewbacca for $25. I had found Endor Han at WM last week, and I just took his camo duster off. So now I have a Chewie to go with him.

It was a pretty meh haul overall, but I got the FCBD issues I wanted, so the outing served its purpose.