Free Comic Book Day 2015

Oldest nephew didn't come out with us this year but hopefully, in October, it'll be the three of us again.



I spent $15 over my budget but the sales! and everything looked so good!

So this was the outcome...

Free

( 2000 AD SciFi Lunacy and Brain-Scrubbing Action )

( And Then Emily Was Gone )

( Attack on Titan )

( Avengers Magazine )

( Avatar: The Last Airbender )

( Batwoman #1 )

( Birds of Prey #1 )

( Bloodshot Reborn )

( Bob's Burgers )

( Bodie Troll )

( Bongo Free-for-all! )

( Boom! Ten Year Celebration  )

( Booster Gold #1 )

( Captain Canuck )

( Cleopatra in Space )

( Comics Festival! 2015 )

( Dark Circle Comics )

( Divergence )

( Doctor Who )

( Eternal Soulfire/Fathom Blue )

( Fight Club )

( Gronk/Hero Cats )

( Hatter M )

( Help the CBLDF. ..Defend Comics  )

( Hip Hop Family Tree )

( ICE )

( Ivar, Timewalker )

( Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Yu-Gi-Oh! )

( Jurassic Strike Force 5 )

( Justice League Dark #1 )

( Legendary Previews )

( March Grand Prix )

( Marvel Free Previews: Secret Wars )

( Megaman/Sonic )

( Mercury Heat )

( Motorcycle Samurai )

( Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice )

( New York Bulletin )

( Overstreet's Comic Book Marketplace )

( Pokémon )

( Rabbids/Ariol/Smurfs/Garfield )

( Savage Dragon Legacy )

( Secret Wars #0 )

( SpongeBob )

( Teen Titans Go!/Scooby-Doo Team-up )

( Stan Lee's Chakra the Invincible )

( Street Fighter )

( Super Mutant Magic Academy/Step Aside, Pops! )

( Steampunk Goldilocks )

( Tales of Honor )

( Teen Titans #1 )

( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles )

( Terrible Lizard )

( Thanatos Diver/The Stuff of Legend )

( The All New, All Different Avengers )

( The Tick )

( The Phantom  )

( The Uncanny Inhumans )

( The Walking Dead: The Rise of the Governor )

( Transformers )

( Valiant 25th Anniversary Special )

( Wonderland )

1 Dollar or less

( Astrid Lindgren's Pippi/Anna & Froga )

( Avengers Unplugged: Ladies' Night Out )

( Batman: Little Gotham )

( Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America #3 )

( Invincible #118 )

( Justice League Europe )

( Killjoys #1 )

( Marble Season )

( Molly Danger/Princeless )

( Morning Glories #44 )

( My Little Pony )

( Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero #8 )

( Ody-C #1, #2 )

( Quasar )

( Sex criminals #2 )

( Skottie Young Posters )

( Spider-Men )

( The New Warriors )

( The Wicked & The Divine #6 )

( Ugly Doll Comics )

$5.95 or less

( Ant-Man Prelude )

( DC Bad Girls )

( Gotham Academy: Endgame )

( Jem )

( Oddly Normal #6 )

( Saga )

( S.H.I.E.L.D. )

( Super Hero Squad Show Figures )

Other (bought at a different time but read with the others)

( All-new Hawkeye )

( Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld )

( Azrael )

( Black Widow: The Tightly Tangled Web )

( Bloodlines Outbreak )

( Daredevil )

( Green Lantern Mosaic )

( Hawkeye vs. Deadpool )

( Harbinger Files )

( Jurassic Park: Redemption )

( Justice )

( Marvel 1602: Spider-Man )

( Ms. Marvel )

( Ms. Marvel #12 )

( Princess Leia )

( Rat Queens )

( Shadow Hawk )

( Superman #735 )

( The Incredible Hulk )

Mercury Heat

With the combination of his run on Iron Man and Uber, I came to the conclusion last year that I didn't actually like Kieron Gillen and my enjoyment of Young Avengers and Journey into Mystery were flukes.

Free Comic Book Day 2015 proved me wrong and I'm glad.

I promised you an entry on Mercury Heat and this is it. This is the comic book that made me fall in love with Kieron Gillen while The Wicked & the Divine firmly cemented it.

Mercury Heat has some great dialogue and a pretty good concept, but it's a preview so hard to judge these things. The best part was the 18! pages of Gillen discussing the comic and why they made the artistic choices that they did.

First of all, he mentions Tank Girl. This endears me because aside from my mom, I don't know anyone who has actually SEEN Tank Girl, much less read it. I've tried describing it to people as "Mad Max but with a girl" except now we seem to have that and Tank Girl is even more left in the dust.

There's some mentions of other things, personal projects and then, the good stuff:

"Thinking about all my smart women peers turning thirty, looking at their twenties with a shudder and reaching up to find nothing above them but glass."

Damn, it's poetic, horrifying and true all at the same time.

"Me looking at the then-present wave of post-apocalyptic fiction in comics and pop culture generally, and being annoyed. I like the genre, but its predominance spoke to something else-a culture with an inability to imagine a future. Post-apocalyptic fiction is literally giving up, saying it's all over and a complete abdication of trying to imagine how the future could be. What's the best riposte to that? I decided it wasn't actually Utopian sci-fi. That's merely its inversion. It was to create a future where we've managed to deal with several of what presently seem as unsurmountable problems...but a world where there's a whole separate bunch of problems to deal with. There will be a future. It will have problems in it. We will have to deal with them. Grow up."

YES!

"Obvious question: 'Why the skin?'
(explains how on the planet Mercury, there are bases and they get very hot especially while wearing armor)
This led to a back and forth dance between Omar and myself, with me alternatively going, 'MORE SKIN!' and then, 'LESS SKIN!'
This is true for everyone who's in any of the bases, of course, no matter what sex. If I'm going to show skin in a book, I'm showing it equally. I've written on this before, but the biggest problem in comics isn't the costumes, it's how an artist chooses to frame a character in the storytelling. A character can be in jeans and a sweater, but if she's pulling ass poses for the reader, it's much more objectifying than a Jamie McKelvie Emma Frost."