Free Comic Book Day 2009

As always, the first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day. Comic book retailers, bookstores and libraries across the world celebrate the hobby and literacy by making dozens of new or reprinted comics available for free on this day every year since 2002.

What titles are available? Almost every comics publisher puts out something for FCBD. DC Comics has the opening chapter in this summer's crossover event "Blackest Night" and Marvel Comics has a brand new Avengers comic up for grabs. For a list of everything, click here.

And for those folks in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, please stop by All Things Fun! in West Berlin, NJ and the Haddon Township Library in Haddon Township, NJ. Don't know where to find your local comics shop? Call 1-800-COMIC-Book or click here. Free comics for everyone and even special events, check it out!

And here's a bonus - Hugh Jackman hyping Free Comic Book Day, plus a look at X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in theatres nationwide tomorrow. Enjoy.




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Eurovision 2009: Scandinavia

Norway - "Fairytale" by Alexander Rybak


Sweden - "La Voix" by Malena Ernman


Iceland - "Is It True" by Johanna Gudrun Jonsdottir


Finland - "Lose Control" by Waldo's People


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Comic Fan! #4

Main Enterprises presents Comic Fan! #4! Cover featured articles on the history of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents by some guy named Glenn Walker and a companion piece by writer Steve Skeates on his days at Tower Comics kick off our fourth issue.

Also included is Dennis Kininger's "He's a Fat Little Nothing" (on the ACG character Herbie), Lance "Doc" Boucher's tribute to Richard "Grass" Green in Comic Fandom Icons, Sam Gafford's "Sez ME!" on his anticipation of the Watchmen film, plus our mind-blowing review section, The Spinner Rack.

All this plus illustrations by Dave Farley, Dan Taylor, John Lambert, Hal Jones, Larry Tisch, Don Newton, Dan Adkins, Rick Limacher, Marc Haines and others. A 60-page full magazine sized publication with full color front and back covers.

Comic Fan! #4 can be purchased here. Check it out!


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Sticky Wicket 3: Watkins' Finest Inning

The final volume of friend and writer Ewart Rouse's "Sticky Wicket" trilogy has just been released.

The new book, "Watkins' Finest Inning" is about a ragtag band of cricket players from former British Commonwealth countries who seek, against the odds, to take the game of their youth mainstream in America.

The first two volumes, "Watkins at Bat" and "Watkins Fights Back" are both highly recommended and available from LMH Publishing. "Watkins' Finest Inning" can be purchased from Amazon here.


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Avengers Forever Chat Tonight

WHAT

Webchat on this weeks New Avengers #52, Mighty Avengers #24 and Avengers: the Initiative #23

WHERE:

Avengers Forever Chat Room
http://www.avengersforever.org/chat/

WHEN:


Monday, 27th April, 2009

US Eastern Standard Time: 9:00 PM
US Central Standard Time: 8:00 PM
US Mountain Standard Time: 7:00 PM
US Pacific Standard Time: 6:00 PM

HOW:

By any means possible - just be there!
(And bring your own cowbell)