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Compiled Video Briefs from “Free Comic Book Day” 2025 Adventures

May 5, 2025 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

This past Saturday was “Free Comic Book Day” and as a pretty close to lifelong comic book fan, I made a small pilgrimage around our Metropolis to visit a few of the local comic shops to see how they were doing things for this always special occasion. Before I begin, let me explain to the newbies about what this is. “Free Comic Book Day” is as simple as it sounds. One gets to enjoy a batch of free comic books at a participating retailer but its important to know that each shop has their own way of doing things. Sometimes you get a whole stack or something just a few issues that you can pick from the releases. My first stop on that First Saturday in May would be Galaxy Comics in Park Slope.

As a Bay Ridge resident, my regular comic book store is their Bay Ridge branch located right next to the Alpine Theater but they have not been doing FCBD at this location for a couple of years now. To enjoy the offerings from them I had to head down to Park Slope. Galaxy was permitting a maximum of “5” comics from the FCBD releases and it was already crowded just past 10AM. Can you predict the five choices that I would make at this location?

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Free Comic Book Day @ Midtown Comics

Today is “Free Comic Book Day” and it will be celebrated in the NYC regional Midtown Comics stores along with other participating retailers. Come on out and get some free comic books and browse through their racks to purchase additional items. This will be while supplies last of course.

Comics, Pop Culture

Image Celebrates 10 Years Of “I Hate Fairyland” for Free Comic Book Day 2025

December 18, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Fans of the long running, bestselling I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young (Middlewest, Twig) won’t want to miss out on the special Free Comic Book Day 2025 edition available in May 2025 at participating local comic book shops.

comic book covers, image comics — FCBD “I Hate Fairyland”

In celebration of the series’ 10 year anniversary, Young takes a stroll down memory lane providing behind-the-scenes commentary as he revisits various iconic and beloved Fairyland kingdoms—and some of Gert’s most infamous stomping (literal) grounds.
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Compiled Video Briefs from “Free Comic Book Day” 2024 Adventures

May 5, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

When I did the “Free Comic Book Day” video briefs compilation last year, I mused to myself about perhaps making this piece of the adventure a regular thing. Sure the videos are already on the Official YouTube Channel to be enjoyed by anyone that happens upon them but when one runs a website with this tenure one also must look to always expanding the content and keeping it interesting. This year, “Free Comic Book Day” arrives on what has been referred to as “Star Wars Day” and that aspect alone cemented the idea. As in the video post from last year I would once again be heading to a number of our local comic book shops to see what was going on. My first stop would be the Galaxy Comics store in Park Slope.

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Get Your Geek On: Today Is “Free Comic Book Day” and “Star Wars Day”

May 4, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Today has to be one of those not often happening on the same day occurrences as its not only “Star Wars Day” because of the whole phrase of “May The 4th Be With You”, but its also “Free Comic Book Day” and each of them are worlds of awesome. Your local listings will show you that all sorts of “Star Wars” films and specials will be airing and if you have Disney+ you can just leave a section of the service playing. As I will be rather busy today I will likely watch a couple of the original trilogy films after I get back from adventures. You can translate this into my letting all three of the films run through.

Now as far as “Free Comic Book Day” is concerned, my plans for the day are to hit a couple of the famed New York City comic book shops like Forbidden Planet and Midtown Comics to see what they have going on. By now the readership should know what this particular day is and how it works but if you are new, here is the scoop. Free Comic Book Day is done at participating retailers and on this day they let you take a stack of comic books that have been designated as FCBD issues. Each store has their own policy on how many one can take so you might get 5 comics, or many more. Of course there are even stores that only give you a single comic book which is a bit disappointing but let’s remember that while this is free to the customer, it is NOT free to the participating retailer. This is why I always encourage that you purchase some other issues that are on the racks or some comic book collecting supplies like the bags or backing boards. There are also numerous sales at these shops in honor of FCBD so peruse the collected editions or action figures. You know that you need something. We always do.

Each of the hyperlinks below will lead you to some events and plans that you can entertain today on this super duper Geektastic day. My hope is to find some folks cosplaying something as I explore because you never know. Before I wrap up you can tell me what you will be doing today and know that whatever it is, I hope you have a great time. Ciao for now.

Official: https://www.freecomicbookday.com
Official: https://www.starwars.com

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