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Free Comic Day!
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 ;)
They told me to never come back to the store again.
And tomorrow it's free jewlery day! Just show up at your local jewelery store with a gun! :)
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
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)
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)
Support industry by taking free stuff with you. And you thought, business is hard to understand...
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 $70. He never explained it and I never thought to ask further.I kind of wish I had now. .. so I don't get my milk and cheese. So depressing. I think I'll go to the fridge now and get the milk and cheese out and make cool action figures that go sour in the sun.
MURDER MAYHEM MERV GRIFFIN!!!!
I stopped supporting the Comic industry in the mid 90's, after they clearly abused consumers. Starting with Valliant (now dead) who printed outrageous amount of comics, hyped it, but kept most of it in warehouses until the price went up. Some comics could be 10 to 50$ after a few weeks/months, then suddenly appeared on the market in large quantities. Today most are available for a few cents. As a young kid I spent a fortunes on comics, not to collect them, but because I enjoyed reading them.
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Remember that "Death of Superman" hype? In less than a month it was going for 60$, then 100$ and some places went as high as 200$ BUT It was the most! printed! comic! ever! (6 million prints? or was it only 2?) but you could NOT find it anywhere for months. Every distributor, reseller and stores just kept stacks of hundreds in the back waiting for the hype and rarity to increase the price. You can get it for a dollar today.
I got angry at the comic industry when, in that period, I had a summer job in a comic book store. I went to the warehouse and saw 1$ comics every store in many towns where selling for 10-50$. Titles like Solar man of the atom, X-O Man of war, Superman (death), Batman (broken back), and many many more.
I consider them dishonest and on the limit of fraudulent. At a minimum, ethically very wrong. My (not so) hard earned cash goes to only a very few rare paperback reprints of the 'best'.
On a side note at least I could learn to better my English with all that reading!!!