It is Free Comic Book Day 5/5/2012: Avengers, Buffy, Serenity and The Guild. Not just United States!

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ANONYMOUS1

Saturday, May 5, 2012 4:03 AM

And lots of other free comics.

http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/981

There is a link on the page to find a participating Comic Book store. You can
Search US/Canada Locations or Locate shops outside of North America.

Also links to preview the comics.

Funny, how they left the / out on the names of these comics so they read:

Star Wars Serenity
Buffy the Guild

CYBERSNARK

Saturday, May 5, 2012 5:20 PM

And, as has become my tradition, I will be tracking down my FCBD picks online next week and ordering the ones I find. Usually from overseas, via several different suppliers. Hopefully, I can get them relatively cheap. :(

(My local comic store opens at 11. The really hardcore fans started lining up at 10. By the time I got there the table was empty.)

ZEEK

Saturday, May 5, 2012 6:16 PM

Yeah Star Wars/Serenity was all gone at my store. Last time I bother going to a comic book store. What a dumb promotion. How to tick off potential customers 101.

Looks like best I can find online is rolling the dice at tfaw.com

BYTEMITE

Saturday, May 5, 2012 8:14 PM

I thought comic book day was fun. They asked some people from the local Star Wars costume club to show up, there was a chewbacca and a couple clone troopers and Jango Fett. Long line, but I didn't mind, I don't indulge my geekiness all that often. Picked up the new Avengers versus X-men Roud three and a variant cover of round two for my brother.

I got mine. The story was fun. Short, didn't allow for a whole lot of development, some characters only got maybe a line at most or even a single word. But still fun. I was smiling at the end.

The artwork, some of you have seen the preview artwork so you know. But at the same time I thought it might have worked for the lighthearted nature of the story.

So, now the usual tradition must commence of reading far more into intonations and conversations than may have been intended.

Anyone who's read it, what do you think of the conversation between Zoe and Mal at the end and the significance? To be at the end there's some kind of significance I'm sure. Is it meant as a bridge between places in the post-movie plot? foreshadowing? Taken as is?

EBFIDDLER

Saturday, May 5, 2012 8:49 PM

No problem getting Star Wars/Serenity at my local store. Wore my Serenity T-shirt and had several people comment on it.

The plot was light, certainly action-packed, and loved some of the lines -- River and Jayne had some especially good ones.

Final conversation: Well, it could be taken as foreshadowing. More action-y plots in the offing? Someone saving the day on a regular basis?

PLATONIST

Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:21 PM

Spoilers!

Spoilers!

Spoilers!

I was fortunate enough to get this one earlier in the week, I had a feeling it would go quickly, anyway, last page for me signifies the crew pitching in and sharing roles on the ship, and Zoe resigning herself to the reality that she may not be able to continue with saving Mal’s skin at the expense of her child, but maybe she won’t need to, with the others there to help. She can take comfort with knowing the others are there, when she can’t be, like she has for soooo long. Her look is kinda bittersweet, no?

BYTEMITE

Saturday, May 5, 2012 10:21 PM

Select to view spoiler:

I'm just hoping it's not suggesting that Zoe and the baby might die in order to create more shipboard angst. That would be the saddest thing ever.

But, she could be foreshadowing her leaving Serenity for a short while for her kid, in accordance with Wash's known wishes about their children. He wanted them raised planet side. And Zoe does appear by herself in Float Out - and I do think that's Zoe.

*looking at two* I don't think they're going to have two pregnant women with a history with Wash around just for the dramas.

Though they might get Kaylee pregnant. Because it'd be hilarious to watch the doc panic over it and Mal going big brother's wrath on his head.

BYTEMITE

Saturday, May 5, 2012 10:23 PM

Platonist. Yeah. Zoe might be thinking Mal's doing a little better now, he has more people there for him who have been through the fire with him. She might be feeling like she can relax from her constant job of protecting Mal from himself and his feng le ideas.

BYTEMITE

Sunday, May 6, 2012 6:17 PM

Yeah. They took some hits, and there might be more hardship and emotional turmoil than we can see on the surface here, but they've still got lots to do, and if anyone knows how to keep going after big losses it's them.

ROCKETJOCK

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 4:21 AM

I was lucky enough to get my copy at Flying Colors Comics in Concord, California, the place where FCBD got started. Zack Whedon was signing -- got copies of the flip book for myself, my wife, and my daughter. Nice Day.

I got a real kick that the flip-side of the book (also written by Zack) was Star Wars, focusing on Han Solo and Chewbacca. Serenity and the Millennium Falcon, my two all-time favorite smuggler's rigs, together again for the first time.Nerdvanna.

"Hermanos! The Devil is building robot. Andale!" --Numero Cinco

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