Monday, May 05, 2008
FCBD Recap
ALRIGHT - Saturday was Free Comic Book Day, as mentioned below. I only made it to a couple of shops, and had to miss all of the Andy Runton signings, but overall it was a fine day. Rain spoiled it a bit - last year's FCBD was about as beautiful a day you could ever find - but even if it was raining menstrual blood and jagged metal Krusty-O's it'd be impossible to completely spoil FREE COMICS. NEC had a limit, but between them and Hub I got pretty much everything I was after. That includes the IGNATZ and EC samplers, and the Owly and Atomic Robo comics. I also grabbed an assortment of other random junk from NEC, totally for free, including the first issue of Mark Waid and Ron Garney's second stint on Captain America back in 1998. I think I flipped through this issue at the newsstand during one of mine and DJ's old QuikTrip jaunts, but had never actually read a single one of those highly-regarded Waid/Garney issues 'til this weekend.
I also saw Iron Man, which is simultaneously awesome yet also somehow just slightly so ever disappointing. I mean, it's amazing that they were able to make such a good movie about a character that, while great, has had very few good solo stories over its 40-plus year existence. Still, I was so ridiculously excited for the movie that it would've been almost impossible for me to not be let-down to some small extent. It's really good, Downey is terrific, the action scenes are highly exciting, etc., but it does kinda drag just a bit in the middle. So it's no Spider-Man or Spider-Man 2 or X-Men 2, but it also ain't no Spider-Man 3 or X-Men 3. And thank the maker it's not a god-damn Fantastic Four. Hopefully the Iron Man sequel (April 30, 2010!), Thor, and Avengers films will be as good.
ALRIGHT - Saturday was Free Comic Book Day, as mentioned below. I only made it to a couple of shops, and had to miss all of the Andy Runton signings, but overall it was a fine day. Rain spoiled it a bit - last year's FCBD was about as beautiful a day you could ever find - but even if it was raining menstrual blood and jagged metal Krusty-O's it'd be impossible to completely spoil FREE COMICS. NEC had a limit, but between them and Hub I got pretty much everything I was after. That includes the IGNATZ and EC samplers, and the Owly and Atomic Robo comics. I also grabbed an assortment of other random junk from NEC, totally for free, including the first issue of Mark Waid and Ron Garney's second stint on Captain America back in 1998. I think I flipped through this issue at the newsstand during one of mine and DJ's old QuikTrip jaunts, but had never actually read a single one of those highly-regarded Waid/Garney issues 'til this weekend.
I also saw Iron Man, which is simultaneously awesome yet also somehow just slightly so ever disappointing. I mean, it's amazing that they were able to make such a good movie about a character that, while great, has had very few good solo stories over its 40-plus year existence. Still, I was so ridiculously excited for the movie that it would've been almost impossible for me to not be let-down to some small extent. It's really good, Downey is terrific, the action scenes are highly exciting, etc., but it does kinda drag just a bit in the middle. So it's no Spider-Man or Spider-Man 2 or X-Men 2, but it also ain't no Spider-Man 3 or X-Men 3. And thank the maker it's not a god-damn Fantastic Four. Hopefully the Iron Man sequel (April 30, 2010!), Thor, and Avengers films will be as good.
