Free Comic Book Day

[ganimede]

For Free Comic Book Day last year, I'd made a point of going to patronise my local comic book store. I used to go to it regularly back when I bought comics a lot but it changed hands several years ago and hasn't been the same since. Case in point, last year the owner was restricting everyone to one comic and I was treated like I was committing a

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[meathiel]

That's definitely a good haul!

[ganimede]

It really is! And worthwhile too, the artwork for Avatarex and Lady Mechanika is gorgeous. You'd like the latter one, it's all steampunk :)

[meathiel]

Goodreads actually recommended Lady Mechanika to me ... haha ...

[ganimede]

I'm glad it agrees with me! If you are interested, there's a preview at this page. There's also some of the art work available on the artist's website: http://www.joebenitez.com/ There's a gallery and some free art downloads :)

[chaquir]

you got those all for free?

[ganimede]

Yep! They're not all full comic books though, some are more like tasters, or a sort of prologue to introduce new readers.

[chaquir]

*bummer*

[ganimede]

Not really, they're still free! And the whole point of Free Comic Book Day is to bring back those people who used to read comics but don't any more or those who have never read comics but would like to. So a taster works well for that, just to hook you in.

[hobbitblue]

Such a great haul, must look up the Lady Mechanika one as the art was so amazing.. and 7 miles? Wow.

[ganimede]

I know, I couldn't believe it either! It was over 15,000 steps which apparently works out to just under 7 miles. I think most of it was from wandering round and round St Johns looking for the toilets.

[hobbitblue]

heh, could well be.. shouldn't they be near the food court? I've not needed to find/use them, always used the clayton square ones when in that part of town tho come to think of it, now they've revamped it all those have likely gone,,

[ganimede]

Should they? I don't know. In the shopping centres in town here, the toilets are in different places - one has them on the very top floor and the other on the very ground floor. The problem with St Johns was that the signs on the top floor were unclear and it looked like they were on that floor rather than downstairs.

[ellierachael]

Sounds like a good trip :)

[ganimede]

It was definitely a better experience than last year :)