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Started by Archiecomicxfan215, May 04, 2016, 12:13:54 AM

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DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 07, 2016, 01:07:31 PM
Midtowncomics is going have those comics for free on their website on the 9th. I definitely want the Archie #1 & Love & Rockets. I love Love & Rockets, I have one of the books.


The FCBD Love & Rockets comic opens with an introductory page warning that the comic actually contains no rockets whatsoever.  ;)

irishmoxie

#16
Did anybody get the Boom, Strawberry Shortcake, Grumpy Cat, Camp Midnight, or Hilda for FCBD? Are they worth getting from Midtown or ebay? I couldn't go because I have to pack up my stuff to move at the end of the month.

Also if you got some good hauls or if there were any good deals. Please share. I'll make it to FCBD one of these years...


DeCarlo Rules

#17
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 07, 2016, 06:19:12 PM
Did anybody get the Boom, Strawberry Shortcake, Grumpy Cat, Camp Midnight, or Hilda for FCBD? Are they worth getting from Midtown or ebay? I couldn't go because I have to pack up my stuff to move at the end of the month.

Also if you got some good hauls or if there were any good deals. Please share. I'll make it to FCBD one of these years...


Well, it seems a bit late to mention your wish list now, as most people have already been to FCBD if they were going to go, but maybe we should give some thought to that kind of thing ahead of time next year. I'm sure there are a number of people here who do go who might be willing to pick up (a reasonable number) of extra FCBD comics for those who were interested but couldn't make it, if the wish-lister was willing to pay for postage. Just an idea to mull over for next time.


I think if you'd mentioned that list yesterday I might have been able to pick most of those up.

JonInIowaCity

I didn't get the Archie book at FCBD today as I'd already purchased it, but I did pick up the Sonic one. I called a Civil War II free comic also. Now I wish I'd pick up the CBLDF book for the Betty story. I might stop by my local comic book shop later this week to see if they still have copies.

The store was packed with people of all ages, not only getting free comics but also other gear. I decided to try out Marvel's "Starbrand and Nightmask" comic. I also picked up a lightsaber-shaped thermos too.

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 07, 2016, 06:59:44 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 07, 2016, 06:19:12 PM
Did anybody get the Boom, Strawberry Shortcake, Grumpy Cat, Camp Midnight, or Hilda for FCBD? Are they worth getting from Midtown or ebay? I couldn't go because I have to pack up my stuff to move at the end of the month.

Also if you got some good hauls or if there were any good deals. Please share. I'll make it to FCBD one of these years...


Well, it seems a bit late to mention your wish list now, as most people have already been to FCBD if they were going to go, but maybe we should give some thought to that kind of thing ahead of time next year. I'm sure there are a number of people here who do go who might be willing to pick up (a reasonable number) of extra FCBD comics for those who were interested but couldn't make it, if the wish-lister was willing to pay for postage. Just an idea to mull over for next time.


I think if you'd mentioned that list yesterday I might have been able to pick most of those up.


Thanks for the offer. I don't necessarily need people to send me comics. I'm just wondering if they are worth picking up. I remember last October, someone on here told me the Archie from FCBD was a story that had already been printed. They don't make a list of what's in the comic easily available online that I can see. As Jon commented above, I didn't know a Betty story was in the CBLDF one. So now I'll probably look for that one as well.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 07, 2016, 10:21:14 PM
Thanks for the offer. I don't necessarily need people to send me comics. I'm just wondering if they are worth picking up. I remember last October, someone on here told me the Archie from FCBD was a story that had already been printed. They don't make a list of what's in the comic easily available online that I can see. As Jon commented above, I didn't know a Betty story was in the CBLDF one. So now I'll probably look for that one as well.

I wouldn't worry too much about the Betty story in the CBLDF comic. It's only a single page. Last year's CBLDF comic had a brand-new 6-page Kevin Keller story not available anywhere else.

In general, there are three or four types of FCBD comics. Some of them, like ARCHIE #1, are near-exact reprints of comics that were already released commercially (and usually you can tell those because they have the same cover art used on the earlier consumer retail-priced comic). I don't know if the FCBD Archie #1 contains the classic reprint in the back that was in ARCHIE #1 from July 2015, but I suspect probably not. If you're familiar with the product put out by the company who produced the FCBD comic, you'll usually recognize this type as a reprint comic. A couple of years ago, ACP released a reprint of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #1 as a giveaway comic to be handed out at Halloween ComicFest (a smaller counterpart to FCBD that occurs in October), that didn't contain the reprinted material from the original #1 in the back.

The second type offers some type of (usually edited down) preview of a new comic book series coming soon, or may contain several pages of previews from more than one upcoming comic book. These would be similar to the digital previews of titles you see online, usually just enough pages to give you the flavor of the story, ending with something like "To Be Continued In ... Coming Soon!"

The third type is the most important type, composed of all original material created especially for that FCBD giveaway comic. Sometimes that might be something like a #0 issue, a prequel to an important (to the publisher) new upcoming series or storyline or comic book crossover 'event'. Or just an original material story promoting a new comic book coming from that publisher soon. Sometimes it will tip you off at the end of the story, directing you to look for a specific #1 (usually) issue of a new comic.

A fourth type might be an anthology of original shorter prequel stories that looks similar to the second type, but those stories are exclusive originals for FCBD, promoting upcoming comics. These can be the most difficult to distinguish from the second type until after the fact, when you can look at a FCBD comic and compare it to the later comics that came out from that publisher featuring those characters, and determine whether the stories were previews of upcoming comics, or original stories.

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 08, 2016, 12:29:06 AM

In general, there are three or four types of FCBD comics.


Thank you, Beard of Knowledge!

DeCarlo Rules

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Quote from: irishmoxie on May 08, 2016, 01:00:44 AM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 08, 2016, 12:29:06 AM

In general, there are three or four types of FCBD comics.


Thank you, Beard of Knowledge!

There are some cases where it's easy to be fooled even if you're savvy about these things. Darby Pop Productions released a FCBD comic this year titled BRUCE LEE: THE DRAGON RISES (Special Edition) #0. This had a different cover than the BRUCE LEE: THE DRAGON RISES #1 comic book (or its variant cover version) that was released the prior month, so you'd think... based on the numbering, this must be an original prequel story taking place before the events of BL:TDR#1, right?

Well, as I opened it up to read it, I realized immediately that it was a reprint of the BL:TDR#1 that I'd just read a week or two beforehand. Furthermore, pulling out that #1 issue and comparing both comics, the FCBD #0 issue is an edited reprint of #1, from which several pages of story deemed not crucial to the basic storyline had simply been neatly dropped out so that the story could be compacted into fewer pages. Pretty tricky, but I wonder what people who picked it up, read it, and liked it, and then went to buy a copy of issue #1 (assuming they didn't scan the interior story first, before paying for it) will think about it.

Now I'm not really griping about the #0 for myself, because I got it free, so no skin off my nose. If I'd opened it up prior to leaving the store to look at the interior story, I'd have realized it was a preview/postview/reprint of a comic I'd already purchased a couple of weeks earlier (and had decided not to continue getting) and left the FCBD #0 issue for someone else to pick up. The only reason I DID pickup the FCBD #0 issue after reading BL:TDR #1 and deciding not to follow that series is that I figured I'd give the people at Darby Pop Productions a second chance to change my mind about the comic with a prequel story, since it was free.

It occurs to me that if I HADN'T already bought the #1 and decided I didn't like it all that much, and had picked up the free FCBD #0 and liked it, and thought "I should buy this comic series when issue #1 comes out", and then found issue #1 when I went to the comic shop the following week, and purchased it (without flipping through it) only to get home and realize that I'd already read the same story for free (with the exception of the 6 or 8 pages that were dropped in editing #1 down into FCBD #0), so I just paid $4 for 6-8 pages of additional story, I wonder how I'd feel about buying issue #2. Maybe picking up a FREE FCBD comic, a reader might be just excited to discover that a Bruce Lee comic existed, and since the FCBD comic was free, they might tend to be a little less critical of the story and artwork, since they didn't pay for it. If you then DO decide to pay for issue #1, you might start looking at the story and art the second time around a little more critically, since you paid $4 for it.


Another FCBD comic giveaway this year that somewhat varies from the four types I described above is DC SUPER HERO GIRLS #1. While I'm hesitant to recommend any superhero comic to you, this one is so atypical of the mainstream superhero type of comic book that I think it would fit within the parameters of the type of comic you enjoy, because it's SUPER-girlie. It's certainly the girliest (I might have just coined a new adjective there) superhero comic I've ever seen. The reason this one doesn't quite fit the four types of FCBD comics I mentioned above is that it's in the format of a regular size and page-count floppy comic book, while the story pages that it previews are taken from (or at least I believe they are) an original paperback graphic novel (128 pages) that retails (on Amazon) for $5.59, DC SUPER HERO GIRLS: FINALS CRISIS. It's based on a line of superhero fashion dolls for girls designed and marketed by Mattel. The main characters are Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and a plethora of other female DC characters, all re-imagined as teenagers attending Super Hero High, a school where they'll learn the skills needed to graduate into careers as young adult superheroes. (As for why super-villainesses like Catwoman and the others would be attending such a school, I can't tell you. I guess they're really still too young in this series to be deemed menaces to society as yet.) No more than a casual familiarity with any of those characters is really necessary for the reader, as the versions here don't necessarily adhere to specific details and backstories of the original comic book versions. The whole thing is aimed at young girls (who would be the target audience for Mattel's dolls) and drawn in the animated cartoon style (there's an accompanying YouTube channel with webisodes that act as an animated counterpart to the comic version as well, that will give you the exact flavor of the concept of the comic). You might consider ordering a copy of that FCBD comic if Midtown comics offers the FCBD issues as freebies with some minimal purchase from them, or at some nominal fee like a dollar or two.

BettyReggie

🎉 📖 💝 📖 🎉 📖 💝 📖 🎉 Tomorrow at 11 am they will have the free comics on midtown comics. I can't wait.

Oldiesmann

I didn't go to the comic shop for FCBD this year. I've already got Archie #1 and already have a ton of other Archie comics that I haven't read yet so I didn't really want to add to that pile yet.

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 08, 2016, 01:45:20 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 08, 2016, 01:00:44 AM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 08, 2016, 12:29:06 AM

In general, there are three or four types of FCBD comics.


Thank you, Beard of Knowledge!

There are some cases where it's easy to be fooled even if you're savvy about these things. Darby Pop Productions released a FCBD comic this year titled BRUCE LEE: THE DRAGON RISES (Special Edition) #0. This had a different cover than the BRUCE LEE: THE DRAGON RISES #1 comic book (or its variant cover version) that was released the prior month, so you'd think... based on the numbering, this must be an original prequel story taking place before the events of BL:TDR#1, right?

Well, as I opened it up to read it, I realized immediately that it was a reprint of the BL:TDR#1 that I'd just read a week or two beforehand. Furthermore, pulling out that #1 issue and comparing both comics, the FCBD #0 issue is an edited reprint of #1, from which several pages of story deemed not crucial to the basic storyline had simply been neatly dropped out so that the story could be compacted into fewer pages. Pretty tricky, but I wonder what people who picked it up, read it, and liked it, and then went to buy a copy of issue #1 (assuming they didn't scan the interior story first, before paying for it) will think about it.

Now I'm not really griping about the #0 for myself, because I got it free, so no skin off my nose. If I'd opened it up prior to leaving the store to look at the interior story, I'd have realized it was a preview/postview/reprint of a comic I'd already purchased a couple of weeks earlier (and had decided not to continue getting) and left the FCBD #0 issue for someone else to pick up. The only reason I DID pickup the FCBD #0 issue after reading BL:TDR #1 and deciding not to follow that series is that I figured I'd give the people at Darby Pop Productions a second chance to change my mind about the comic with a prequel story, since it was free.

It occurs to me that if I HADN'T already bought the #1 and decided I didn't like it all that much, and had picked up the free FCBD #0 and liked it, and thought "I should buy this comic series when issue #1 comes out", and then found issue #1 when I went to the comic shop the following week, and purchased it (without flipping through it) only to get home and realize that I'd already read the same story for free (with the exception of the 6 or 8 pages that were dropped in editing #1 down into FCBD #0), so I just paid $4 for 6-8 pages of additional story, I wonder how I'd feel about buying issue #2. Maybe picking up a FREE FCBD comic, a reader might be just excited to discover that a Bruce Lee comic existed, and since the FCBD comic was free, they might tend to be a little less critical of the story and artwork, since they didn't pay for it. If you then DO decide to pay for issue #1, you might start looking at the story and art the second time around a little more critically, since you paid $4 for it.


Another FCBD comic giveaway this year that somewhat varies from the four types I described above is DC SUPER HERO GIRLS #1. While I'm hesitant to recommend any superhero comic to you, this one is so atypical of the mainstream superhero type of comic book that I think it would fit within the parameters of the type of comic you enjoy, because it's SUPER-girlie. It's certainly the girliest (I might have just coined a new adjective there) superhero comic I've ever seen. The reason this one doesn't quite fit the four types of FCBD comics I mentioned above is that it's in the format of a regular size and page-count floppy comic book, while the story pages that it previews are taken from (or at least I believe they are) an original paperback graphic novel (128 pages) that retails (on Amazon) for $5.59, DC SUPER HERO GIRLS: FINALS CRISIS. It's based on a line of superhero fashion dolls for girls designed and marketed by Mattel. The main characters are Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and a plethora of other female DC characters, all re-imagined as teenagers attending Super Hero High, a school where they'll learn the skills needed to graduate into careers as young adult superheroes. (As for why super-villainesses like Catwoman and the others would be attending such a school, I can't tell you. I guess they're really still too young in this series to be deemed menaces to society as yet.) No more than a casual familiarity with any of those characters is really necessary for the reader, as the versions here don't necessarily adhere to specific details and backstories of the original comic book versions. The whole thing is aimed at young girls (who would be the target audience for Mattel's dolls) and drawn in the animated cartoon style (there's an accompanying YouTube channel with webisodes that act as an animated counterpart to the comic version as well, that will give you the exact flavor of the concept of the comic). You might consider ordering a copy of that FCBD comic if Midtown comics offers the FCBD issues as freebies with some minimal purchase from them, or at some nominal fee like a dollar or two.


I actually quite liked the Bruce Lee comic. I wish they kids had more of a role. They seem to be trying to please too many different audiences.


I'll look into DC Super Hero girls. That youtuber Nerdburger actually likes the sister series: Super Girl Comics Adventures in 8th grade.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 08, 2016, 11:47:43 PM
I'll look into DC Super Hero girls. That youtuber Nerdburger actually likes the sister series: Super Girl Comics Adventures in 8th grade.

I'd don't know if I'd quite call that a "sister series". It is in the general sense of being part of the fairly long-running DC KIDS imprint, which traces its history back to THE BATMAN ADVENTURES, the first WB/DC animated series spinoff comic, in the early 1990s. Earlier incarnations of the same basic line carried the imprint titles WB KIDS and FOX KIDS, when DC Comics had media partnerships with those television networks (it should be noted that DC Comics itself is a wholly-owned subsidiary of media giant Time-Warner).

There have been a number of different re-interpretations of the DC characters in that line though, and there's no continuity (even in the most minimal sense of that word) between any of the titles in the DC KIDS line. Each title stands entirely on its own, with no presumed familiarity on the reader's part with any other prior or current DC Kids titles. The 'Adventures in the 8th Grade' Supergirl can't really be considered a younger version of the Supergirl that appears in DC Super Hero Girls, it's just one of several unrelated versions of Supergirl that have appeared in various titles over the history of the DC KIDS imprint. But if you like basic idea of DC superheroes, without all the heavy baggage of modern adult audience-targeted mainstream DC comics, the DC KIDS imprint in general is a lot of fun.

nuageo

Tonight, I read DC Superhero Girls(FCBD 2016) and It is fun.



You can see the animated series here:
http://www.dcsuperherogirls.com



BettyReggie

My free comics still haven't come yet from www.midtowncomics.com

irishmoxie

Quote from: nuageo on May 09, 2016, 01:03:17 AM
Tonight, I read DC Superhero Girls(FCBD 2016) and It is fun.



You can see the animated series here:
http://www.dcsuperherogirls.com




I thought it was cute too. Don't know if I'd spend money on it though.

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