Sign Up for the Mailing List!

Search

        




FCBD@Cosmic Comix! Part One!

FCBDFREE COMIC BOOK DAY (FCBD) is now just three weeks away! It’s Saturday, May 5! And as we do every year, we will once again be throwing a massive party! This is the first of several posts designed to tell you exactly what you can expect to find at Cosmic Comix & Toys on that very special (and massively fun) day. We’re calling this series FCBD@Cosmic Comix!

But first, if you didn’t know already, we should tell you that FCBD is the annual event that celebrates comics and could very well be the biggest day of the year for our beloved medium. As the name implies, Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book stores across North America and around the world give away specially designed comic books ABSOLUTELY FREE to anyone who comes into their shops.

As for us, we always do it up right. If you want some clues about what might be happening this year, check out the wrap-up from last year’s FCBD! And in a post earlier this year, we told you many of the titles that we’ll have available for FREE on FCBD. 

So what can you expect this year?

  1. Free comic books! You choice from a myriad of titles!
  2. Balloons!
  3. Popcorn! 
  4. And of course 25% off everything in the store!

Sounds like a party already! But that’s all we’re willing to divulge for now. Look for another installment of FCBD@Cosmic Comix next week!

Best Covers of the Day – Wednesday, Apr. 11

Uncanny X-Men #10As I write this column, I have not yet read a single comic book this week. And if you happen to be reading at the exact moment when it went live (11 am) I can guarantee that neither have you! Unless of course you acquired your comics illegally and/or are reading this from your desk in Europe where you practice high finance. Regardless, I can tell you right now that this is a powerful week of comics, which I can say with authority because there were so many contenders for Best Covers of the Day! And you know me: I always judge a book by its cover.

UNCANNY X-MEN #10

Cover by Adam Kubert

Today’s cover of Uncanny X-Men wins the Breaking the Fourth Wall Award. Not only has the merciless robot called Unit swept through the members of Cyclops’ team, he has now busted through the logo and is on his way to YOU, reader! A very cool cover, no doubt. But I honestly don’t know how afraid I’d be; he sort of just looks like what would happen if Silver Surfer somehow merged with his own surfboard.

Now if it was Randy Johnson coming at me — aka the BIG Unit — that would be something else entirely. His mustache alone is cause for concern.

Continue reading »

31 queries in 1.909 seconds