FCBD 2014 Review: The OTHER Comics
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!
ComicsForSinners is pleased to showcase the comics that are NOT mainstream and NOT for kids 🙂
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EPIC #0 FCBD 2014
ComixTribe is offering a solid #0 origin issue of EPIC, a teen completely powered up, yet when seeing gorgeous girls, his powers are flipped off by his young male hormones. The idea alone is brilliant as this opens up a hilarious amount of situations! Respect to ComixTribe!
HATTER M: FAR FROM WONDER VOLUME 1 FCBD 2014
This re-issue of the Hatter M saga as told in the graphic novel arc of the Looking Glass Wars, is marking Automatic Pictures Entertainment as a ravenous new player. Having master-artist Ben Templesmith to produce the art for this series is nothing short of amazing as you get not only a perfect introduction of the Hatter M, but also making sure that fans are introduced to the style of Templesmith which is as different from any series of Marvel you can think of. And that diversity in comics is what makes the business so strong and interesting.
Back to Hatter Madigan who is a dimension-hopping persona, in search of Alyss, Wonderland’s lost princess. In this issue we see Madigan not as a Mad Hatter but as a determined bodyguard, in dire need of his lost Amazing Powerful Hat.
Automatic makes a strong FCBD offering!
SHOWA: HISTORY OF JAPAN FCBD 2014
Drawn & Quarterly reprints a story in Black&White about the drafting of Japanese soldiers in WWII, in a fashion that is both cartoony as well as educational, but truth be told I have lots of trouble actually getting into the story. Not (only) because it reads in Japanese traditional manner, reading the panels and pages back to front, but also because I have trouble deciding whether this is all-out cartoon (with a sense of humor I cannot relate to) or the historical entries are worth reading or are even true!
THE INTRINSIC FCBD 2014
Arcana is developing its superteam ‘Intrinsic’ into a visual animated treat, as the strange group of anti-heroes live together, train together and fight together. This FCBD #0 edition shows a new great starting-point, introductions per character as well as an interesting story to boot. It serves perfectly as the introduction to Arcana and will spark readers to get into Arcana as soon as they can.
BUCK ROGERS FCBD 2014
When I first saw the TVseries of Buck Rogers, I immediately fell in love with the adventures of Buck. I loved every episode and discovering there were Golden Age comics from this character was thrilling. A swashbuckling pirate as there ever was one, but now with a nice scifi-setting. Hermes Press has done truly a thankful service introducing the various incarnations of Buck to the fans of comics!
MAGIC WIND FCBD 2014
If you combine the Wild West, great Italian artists as well as a supernatural monster-kinda streak, you get one interesting Shaman. Ned Ellis once caught a metal shard in his brain, leaving him with limited memories but with a great sense of premonition, visions and the uncanny ability to make sure the things that go bump in the night, will be punished for bumping in the night.
The combination of the classic Western tales and the macabre elements that make for chilling horror-stories is done beautifully in this extended preview of Epicenter Comics’ MAGIC WIND.
HIP-HOP FAMILY TREE TWO-In-ONE FCBD 2014
The rise of Hip-Hop and even its apparent similarities are being discussed in this Fantagraphics offering. You will get a blast of the past and truly enjoy a trip down memory lane, with all the name-dropping and the way hip hop is born and cultivated!
SKYWARD MIDNIGHT TIGER FCBD 2014
Action Lab is ready to take on the world with some great offerings, which bring quality reading and all-ages together.
In SKYWARD we see how the diverse clans of Berserkers are now dead against Outsiders JUST as Quinn and his dog Jack are approaching their lands. In MIDNIGHT TIGER we see the origin of the Midnight Tiger that comes to be, as a young kiddo is not at peace with how things are in the world today and when he gets amped up on superpowers he is going to change the playing field… even if that means he is heading into a very steep learning curve!
Not only does Action Lab give the readers of FCBD 2 great stories, the ads on what they are offering in 2014 will make you drool for more as the collections of RUNNER and PLANET GIGANTIC and MISHKA and much more will win the heart of readers that will be daring enough to try something new, either for themselves, their kids or their nieces and nephews!!
FINDING GOSSAMYR / PAST THE LAST MOUNTAIN FCBD 2014
Th3rd World Studios presents to magnificent tales of fantasy. All-ages and with one tale drawn much like Frozen/Rapunzel from Disney would be in comics, about a young boy wanting to wield blades more then being a farmer. The other tale is about goblins and monsters, escaping their prison where they lived after they lost the war. The monsters set out to find something behind the last mountain… something that will question the reader who really are the monsters.
Another great offering for FCBD and Th3rd World Studios makes sure to showcase the best comics will have to offer.
ENTROPY FCBD 2014
In the dark future the society has HAVES and HAVENOTS-people. The HAVES control everything and and have banned even every form of entertainment. And now we meet a HAVE and a HAVENOT teaming up on a mission. Although the HAVE is kinda abducted, he somehow follows the HAVENOT on her quest.
This story feels European in style and oozes Ladronn and Moebius (and more) in the art, which would be even more clear I think, if you get the new 4-issue Graphic Novel Series out this year! Please do!
THE TICK FCBD 2014
Offbeat, strange and entertaining to some. Others might just think this is like the father to Spongebob Squarepants!
A cult-classic made real again by NEW ENGLAND COMICS PRESS showcases this odd superhero, being all powerful and incredible and amazingly goofy!
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!
SHERWOOD TEXAS FCBD 2014
12-Gauge Comics have managed to start up a retelling of Robin Hood, now set in biker-infested Texas. This FCBD-comic sets up the stage for the new mini-series, although I am unsure if it will feature zombies or voodoo or something akin, because the hero sure needs some magic, let me tell you that!
Also featering here is a nice story of BOONDOCK SAINTS and it reads like it comes straight out of the cult (you HAVE to see these movies, man!!!!) movies. Which is just groovy!!
LES MISERABLES / PRIDE & PREJUDICE FCBD 2014
The classic stories of Victor Hugo and Jane Austen, but now with manga-art as its main attraction. This actually really works very well. I am still having some difficulties with the way you need to read Manga, but despite that you can really enjoy this new retelling a lot! UDON really had a great idea with this!
STEAM WARS FCBD 2014
A tribute or a parody to Star Wars. Perhaps even both! Add to this also the Steampunk-phenomana and mix it all up with much better writing, character development and storylines and this is actually one fun steampunk SciFi-story!
ATOMIC ROBO FCBD 2014
Tesla invented a robot and Atomic Robo now leads investigative teams to save the world via fists and science. Read the story, enjoy the monsters that come out of hiding, see how young adolescent turn adventures into high-risk assignments and immerse yourself in this award-winning all-ages series!
Also have fun with BODIE TROLL who is just to cute to be a real troll although his nasty eating habits as well as his snappy remarks might impact you even more then you might have thought!
Also read a preview of HAUNTED #1, a new series from RED5COMICS, which art, lettering and story will blow you away!
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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