2000 AD joins Free Comic Book Day 2011

[Emperor]

Just leave some of the FCBD free 2000AD's behind so non-2000AD readers get a little taste of Thrill-Power, after all we'll have read all the stories in there before but you get someone else hooked (the first one's free Earthlet, the rest is still surprisingly good value ) and they could be a reader for life. You should try something different - Elric and Baltimore/Criminal Macabre perhaps? Deadliest Sharks was lettered by our own Jim Campbell, for example.

This thread is the first time ive heard of FCBD is it worth taking myself and my 4 year old who is expressing a like for comics,to one of these store events?

Definitely, there is plenty of all ages material in there (perhaps a majority):

www.freecomicbookday.com/comics.asp

As has been mentioned, the free comic books cost the shops money, so people going along helps encourage the shops to do it again next year, which can only help comics in general (a key to the measure of success is that it draws in new people, not just the usual folks sniffing around for freebies).

There is an international store locator here:

www.freecomicbookday.com/fcbd_global.asp

So you can find a nearby store that is involved, although if you have to travel far it might be worth phoning them to find out what they are doing for the day.

[Grant Goggans]

It really depends on the shop.  There is one near me that goes all out and makes the freebies part of a big sidewalk sale and has a great time.  I've also, though, been to shops that grudgingly admitted that they had some free comics and customers could have one apiece from a small box near the register.

I'll be at the shop near me for my 2000 AD comic first thing that morning, and will thank 'em for it by buying something else, too. 

[Teivion]

Awesome cover for the prog too.
Really hope it goes down a storm out there ;-)

[grinning demon]

We give away our copies free at the shop on free comic day, along with specially made up grab bags for younger readers.
John (Commando Forces) kindly offered to cover our costs due to the fact that he wanted 20.
There is some really good stuff amongst this years freebies (and we also throw in a number of back issues (especially the recent Marvel MGC range, DC's After the Watchmen and IDW's Penny Press) that I have been saving up for the event.
This Years List
Kung Fu Panda and Richie Rich
Mouse Guard / Dark Crystal Flip Book
Betty and Veronica
Avatar the Last Airbender
DC Comics Gold Book (hot property every year)
Locke and Key (Joe Hill's awesome Lovecraftian comic)
Super Dinosaur Origin
Amazing Spiderman
Geronimo Stilton and Smurfs
Sonic the Hedgehog
Worlds of Aspen
Bongo Comics Free for All (Simpsons, Futurama)
Elric Balance Lost
Baltimore Criminal Macabre (Steve Niles title well worth a look)
Young Justice / Batman Brave and Bold
John Stanley Summer Fun
Walt Disney Mickey Mouse
Overstreet Guide to Collecting Comics
Civil War Adventure (Historical US Civil war - not Marvel Civil War)
Artifacts 1/2
Silver Scorpion
Captain America / Thor
The Tick
Spontaneous
Rated Free for Everyone
Jake The Dreaming
2000AD
Atomic Robo and Friends
Intrepid Escapegoat and the stuff of Legend
Top Shelf Kids Club 2011
I.C.E
Inspector Gadget
James Patterson's Witch and Wizard
Deadliest Sharks and Prehistoric Predators
Moth Greatest Hits
Green Hornet

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Fantastic stuff Grinningdemon.

As Grant says, it depends on the shop. Once Stevie's LCS Adelaide Comics Centre runs out of it's FBCD books on the day they start giving away back issues that haven't shifted.

[SMOKESCREEN:ED:9]

I'm only here for the Biscuits.

[Dash Decent]

FCBD = Free Cookies & Biscuits Day?

[blixab]

Anyone that is interested and unable to get to a comic shop may be interested to know that I just bought a copy off Ebay. There is a guy selling about 20 x copies for 99p each with no postage charges.

Sorry don't know how to supply a link. Probably best to type in FCBD 2011 and should show up all the free comics for that day as there are about 35 listed.

[dweezil2]

Cheers for the heads up!

Disposableheroescomics are a great online company- I can vouch for them personally as they supply all my import comics.

Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FCBD-2011-2000-AD-/160578552927?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8724832503914186256

[Molch-R]

Don't forget that this Saturday there'll be an exclusive 2000 AD signing at Gosh Comics in That There London.

Al Ewing! Robbie Morrison! Dan Abnett! 39 Great Russell St, WC1B 3NZ on Saturday 7th May. 1pm – 2.30pm.

Be there or be a thrill-sucker's auntie.

http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2011/04/2000ad-signing-for-free-comic-book-day.html

[Bat King]

I'll be getting up at a decent time this weekend then...  Or maybe I won't go to bed...  Yeah, might be best to do an all nighter then go to town or I will lie in till gone 14:00 and miss the good stuff.

[Emperor]

Gets a mention on Time's website:

2000 A.D.: This lively, smart-assed, frequently beautifully drawn, occasionally ultraviolent series has been running weekly in Britain since 1977, with four to six serials in each issue. A lot of its past and present series have lately been reprinted as graphic novels in the U.S., but the 2000 A.D. Free Comic Book Day special is effectively what you'd get in a typical issue of the British series, including a complete-in-six-pages Judge Dredd story (by John Wagner, Val Semeiks and Cliff Robinson), as well as Sláine, Kingdom, Shakara and Zombo stories, plus a long-out-of-print one-pager by League of Extraordinary Gentlemen  artist Kevin O'Neill. (It's also the only one of these picks that might not be all that kid-friendly; as Dredd might say, use your judgement, citizen!)

http://techland.time.com/2011/05/06/emanata-a-guide-to-free-comic-book-day-2011/

[Bat King]

I'm getting excited already!!!

[Emperor]

Nostalgia & Comics in Brum will have: Paul Cornell, Si Spencer and Ian Edginton as well as others like David Hitchcock.

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2011/to-do-tomorrow-the-nostalgia-comics-free-comic-book-day-event/

[Emperor]

For our international members here is a big long list of events around the world - including Gary Erskine singing in Singapore:

www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/06/saturdays-free-comic-book-day-2011-runaround/