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Free Comic Day!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cheap-at-twice-the-price dept.

turkeywrap writes "Today is Free Comic Day! Go to your local comic store, pick up some free comics, and support the comic industry. Check and see if there are any special signings or events at a store near you." Ack! I'm in Warren at Penguicon this weekend, and nowhere near my precious comic store! I guess I'll have to pay for my comics ;)

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  1. Re:X-Men comics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check your local bookstore, it's quite likely you'll find some trade paperback collections of X-Men comics in the graphic novel section. Essential X-Men, X-Tinction Agenda, and several others.

    If you're new to the comics, I'd recommend the Essential X-Men (there are more volumes released since then as well) as a good starting point.

    The big downside: it's in black and white, and not printed on the best quality paper. If you want the full experience, you would still need the comics. (except for some like the X-Tinction Agenda which were reprinted in better quality trade paperbacks)

  2. Re:X-Men comics by RdsArts · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, yes. Marvel has been releasing complete collections of the early XMen comics, along with other comics, for a while as bound, telephone-book sized collections. I can't remember the name, I believe it was "Absolute Xmen," but they may have gone out of print by now. (The first printing was some time around 1997)

    If your looking for them, go into a comic shop, and ask them about the Xmen "trade paperback." (A trade paperback is just a collection of the comics in one large volume)

  3. Free, but there's a catch. by Recovery1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not exactly free. I noted milk and cheese comic a few months ago in prevus and asked my local guy to order it for me with the rest of the ones I usually pick up. He apologized and told me that he couldn't do it. In order to get it (the free comic book that is) he had to either by $70 of comics in some way, either by purchasing these "free comics" or by sales of other books from the supplier totalling $70. He never explained it and I never thought to ask further.I kind of wish I had now. .. so I don't get my milk and cheese. So depressing. I think I'll go to the fridge now and get the milk and cheese out and make cool action figures that go sour in the sun.

    MURDER MAYHEM MERV GRIFFIN!!!!