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?
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.
New York City legends KISS recently announced their “NYC Takeover” and have revealed a number of awesome agenda items which can be found in a post linked HERE. There is a general KISSteria hitting the Big Apple and one of the awesome events is their Pop-Up Store. You’ve seen us cover such things for Metallica and The Rolling Stones, but now its time to see why KISS is “The Hottest Band In The World”.
The holiday season was drawing ever so closer to being right on top of us and that means it was once again time for the Toy Insider’s awesome holiday happening known as the “Holiday Of Play”. Now according to my media memory, I’ve been attending both this and their summertime “Sweet Suite” event since about 2016 and over the years have parsed the content between this and my lifestyle website “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken”. While that sites content can be found by clicking HERE, this post lays its focus on the kinds of things the more grown up collector leans on. Give or take of course, so let’s explore these awesome items starting with our friends at Playmates Toys.
Playmates Toys has two really big licenses at the moment with their long-standing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures and playsets and the Miraculous Ladybug stuff. Last time, I posted the Ladybug things over on “The Chronicles” but with so much happening over there I just put them all together here. They didn’t have any of the Star Trek stuff that I saw at other events but maybe next time.
This past Saturday was “Free Comic Book Day” for 2023 and I’ve been a big advocate of the medium for quite a few years. To start off let’s review what FCBD is and its essentially a special day where comic book retailers or related book stores let you snag a batch of free branded comic books that were released in conjunction with the day. Every title says “Free Comic Book Day” across the top so you know. In the past I’ve done a longer video but this is the first time that I am doing the Shorts thing for our YouTube and with this post I’m collecting all of those together. You see, this year I made the decision to venture out a little bit and see what the comic book shops of the city had going on. My first stop on this adventure would be to Galaxy Comics in Park Slope.
The downside is that these Shorts are exactly that. Short. So that means I have sixty seconds or less to do my thing so I tried my best. I probably could have done a couple of sixty second clips but I was not thinking about that at the time. This is still new to me but onto the fun. This was the first time that I would be doing FCBD at this location of the Galaxy Comics as their Bay Ridge store was not participating this year. A bummer for me, but the only constant is change they say.
