FCBD Review: The Lovely Gal 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 4, 2014!
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RED GIANT OFFERS 4 comics on FCBD 2014
Red Giant will offer monthly 4 comics with 8 stories, totally free and paid for by advertisement and the eventual TPB-collections. An interesting proposition and something that is completely out-of-the-box, especially if you read the four (!!!!!) offerings and discover the quality of both stories as well as artwork!
GIANT SIZE FANTASY collects ‘Pandora’s Blogs’ and ‘Duel Identity’.
Pandora is about a young girl, having fun, meeting friends, blogging about the odd sightings in her town. Art of lovely, story is sweet yet tragic, and especially in love with the the shadow-picture captions that make it extra fun to notice what Pandora is doing!
Duel Identity is about superhero Andromeda, who at night turns in a Batman-modus called Artemis, who is ready to go as far as killing the object of her assignment… that is, until she does not get the answers she is looking for and leaves the victim unscathed.
ID is a story that is nicely thought-out, with a lot more angles then can be hold in these few pages, but somehow it works and the dynamic tempo feels like it can run into a full-fledged story with ease!
GIANT SIZE ADVENTURE collects ‘Magika’ and ‘The First Daughter’.
“Magika” is a story filled to the brim with great artwork, strange fairy-tale creatures and a quest to win the hand of a little sweet lady. Add to this a tad dark twist at the end and you will be interested to see more of this… and you can… MONTHLY… FOR FREE!!
“The First Daughter” tells about the US-president’s daughter Tasha Tasker, who is part of a special century-spanning team of superheroes (all First Daughters and Sons) who can put on a nano-robotic alien armor and fight off threats. But now that the threat is the most dangerous in history, Tasha will meet her brothers and sisters and in the upcoming FREE MONTHLY stories this threat will be handled.
Red Giant is baffling… to have FREE COMIC BOOK DAY in stores around the world every month with 4 flip-comics combining eight fantastic high-quality stories… it is madness, genius and true love all roled into one!
WORLDS OF ASPEN FCBD 2014
This year Aspen introduces not one but two ISSUES ZERO issues, that lead into the ISSUE ONE of both series coming out later this year. This is a break of the norm for them as they usually have the FCBD-offering a sampler for multiple in-house series. Not this time though and BOY are you in for a treat!
DAMSELS IN EXCESS tells the story about 5 princesses who rule their parts of the world, and how they come together to dine and celebrate. Yet in another part of the country the reader will find out where all the prinses and kings went. This tale is troubling and spooky and Aspen makes sure that this will not be a children’s tale to tell!
ZOOHUNTERS introduces Minalara, who will hunt special alien specimen for her clients. But when she returns to the Live Cargo Holding, she takes pity on one specimen and takes it off the hands off its owner Quarec. Quarec being the slimy asshole even available in Alien cultures, turns it into a trade for a service and this will sure be making the first storyline of ZOOHUNTERS into an interesting venture.
Steigerwald’s artwork is like looking at Jae Lee’s art in SciFi setting and is something that made my eyes drool. The story is just as interesting as the artwork, so Aspen better sell a gazillion of this series!
AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER FCBD 2014
Dark Horse offers an ALL AGES book with a story about SOKKA and SUKKI set in the Avatar-univers, ITTY BITTY HELLBOY as well as JUICE SQUEEZERS.
Sokka and Sukki are into collecting shells and ultimately are all about the female power and empowering of females. A solid and moralistic story with enough laughs to keep it light.
Itty Hellboy plays a prank on the ghost of Rasputin and this is just a nice silly 2-pager.
In “Juice Squeezers” we see a bunch of bullied kids who are trying to get back at their bullies by getting massive amounts of ant-pheromons from a flat-sized queen ant. Why the kid is afraid of bullies and not of that huge ant, is beyond me though!
Dark Horse makes this FCBD-offering a solid one for all ages.
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!!
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!
STREET FIGHTER FCBD 2014
Udon/Capcom offer 3 stories, that somehow make the superficial characters of the game seem much more fun and intelligent then I thought would ever be possible. The story with CHUN LI is just mesmerizing, the one with JURI is powerfull and reminds most of a GI JOE comicbook and the story with AKUMA is violent yet holds an interesting story in an extra layer of cool story.
GRIMM FAIRY TALES FCBD 2014
This special ZERO issue showcases the Blood Knights and there extreme power being put into practice. As horrifying as it is, we can be glad it will never come back again. Or will it!? The Dark Queen will let loose her Blood Knights in the new AGE OF DARKNESS crossover at Zenescope!
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!
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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