FCBD 2014 Review: Comics With Gore & Violence
Free Comic Book Day 2014 is a merry Xmas for all comic fans around the world. Comic Shop Owners can order promotional comics, previews and even special introductory issues of the best publishers listed under Diamond Publications. Comic Shop owners with a great heart for the good cause are handing out these comics on this very special Saturday.
ComicsForSinners also has a big heart and will try to give a lowdown on all comics that will be available on this special day and would love to know what comics you have gotten on May 3, 2014!
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ÜBER FCBD 2014
Avatar is introducing Kieron Gillen’s ÜBER to the comic community and is doing it in prose. A full fledged interview with the spy-scientist who gave the Allied Forces a change of fighting back to the Axis’ superpowered forces, as chronicled in the Gillen-series #1-12. A complete recap in what has happened and transpired, but without much of the gore this series has to offer visually. So Avatar took care of the public who are unaware of the impact this series might have on unaware comic fans! Respect to that!
I urge comic readers to check out this new brilliant series, though IFFF you can stomach violence and gore, that is!
SCAM #0: CROSSWORDS FCBD 2014
COmixtribe is set for the young adult scene, which delivers a tad more aggressive comics then Action Lab for instance but does so with a twist and intelligent writing which makes you eager to go into your comic store to get more!
CROSSWORDS tells about how bad rich people are struck down by Crosswords in ways you can applaud but also being appalled for. It will nevertheless make you feel good about yourself in having this comic in your collection, because although it is about doing bad things, it is with the right sets of morals, I guess. Not that it will actually turn people to actually live like Crosswords, but I am sure a lot of folks daydream about it, if they are honest!
HAMMERED covers a story of PINT who is an alcohol-driven superpowered work-for-hire. And that makes for really REALLY funny and over-the-top sensationalistic moments in this comic.
All I can say about this edition: go and buy more from Comixtribe!
ZOMBIE TRAMP FCBD 2014
Action Lab has a more mature readers line called “Action Lab Danger Zone” and Dan Mendoza’s ZOMBIE TRAMP is sure to be more violent and gore then their other offering.
ZOMBIE TRAMP’s story is a solid introduction into how the richest call girl in Hollywood became the deadliest zombie to roam the world. Expect a lot of blood, huge boobs and yet still a moving story, which will beg your senses into buying her two TPB’s as well as get into that Volume Three asap!!
2000AD FCBD 2014
2000AD offers 48 pages of brain-scrubbing action, as they tell us themselves. And they are right! No less then 6 big stories combined with 3 very short stories make up for an early Xmas, I would say!
JUDGE DREDD stars in a story in which he saves a rookie remotely as well stars in Newspaper reprints. Dredd is one tough, self-righteous guy and the parody especially in the early works are so clear it would take a blind not to see. The serious tone of a more adapted character of the latter stories are just as fun though, but you do have to take the British sense of humor (dark… very dark at times) into account!
SLAINE is offering a glimpse of barbaric mayhem as only Slaine can bring to the plate.
ROGUE TROOPER is a GI out looking for a traitor.
JUDGE ANDERSON is part of the Psi-Division and encounters a golemn.
ABSALOM is an old cop, still able to complete singlehandedly take down a group of punks, despite him looking as a drunken Einstein.
DURHAM RED is a vampire-bountyhunter, which means she is vampire AND bountyhunter combined. SciFi-setting added and this is odd yet gorgeous to read!
2000AD let this one rip and it oozes with fun stories only 2000AD can provide!
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL / TERRA FORMERS FCBD 2014
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL tells the story about young Rita, who saw her life being invaded by fierce aliens and who grew up battling them as fierce as she could manage!
TERRA FORMERS sees a party of spacemen arriving on a planet and discovering alien life.
Both stories showcase VIZ MEDIA’s current catalogue and really invites you to test-drive these works OR get ahead of the new Tom Cruise movie even, on which ALL YOU NEED IS KILL is based
FUBAR ‘ACE OF SPADES’ FCBD 2014
FUBAR means “Fucked up beyond all recognition” and that is JUST what is happening with the militaries that are searching for Saddam in the first FUBAR-story and Osama Bin Laden in the second FUBAR-story. I am talking about zombies, gore, mayhem and guns blazing, here!
This FCBD-offering from FubarPress is really something I truly enjoyed! The way these brave men are forced to handle a new and unknown threath like this is actually inspiring!
About the Author
Richard Boom Richard is the driving force behind Comics for Sinners. His love and admiration for female comic book characters is virtually unparalleled, which immediately explains his biggest 'sin': his Hot Mummy fetish. This sketchbook theme is philogynistic in nature and even the source of his WIP comic book series "The Sisterhood".
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