{"id":8007,"date":"2022-05-04T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T17:57:58","slug":"rafs-countdown-to-free-comic-book-day-for-5-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2022\/05\/rafs-countdown-to-free-comic-book-day-for-5-4-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Raf\u2019s Countdown to Free Comic Book Day for 5.4.2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi there, Carol and John\u2019s Shoppers, and welcome to Free Comic Book Day week! It\u2019s the most exciting time of the year at the shop, and this is our biggest event of the year; we\u2019ve got a few other fun things going on at the shop this week too. We\u2019ll get to all that in just a bit, but we\u2019ve got another Wednesday full of new comics to go over first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marvel Comics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cFast approaches the ultimate destiny of one of the Jedi\u2019s most renowned masters! As he spends his final days in the remote deserts of Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi takes time to reflect on \u2014 and record \u2014 key moments of a heroic life long-lived. Writing in old leather-bound journals from his hermit\u2019s hut, Obi-Wan remembers his days as a young Jedi Initiate, his trials as a Padawan, the crucible of Jedi Knighthood, and The Clone Wars, as well as some of the earliest challenges he faced as a true Master of the Force! In this tale, Obi-Wan considers a watershed Youngling adventure he narrowly survived on Coruscant when he was but eight years of age… This is just the beginning of his Jedi journey!\u201d Just in time for the debut of the Disney+ show later this month, Obi-Wan (my favorite Star Wars character) gets his own miniseries. On \u201cMay the Fourth be with you\u201d too no less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DC Comics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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A few weeks ago, we had the epic #0 issue, and now this week it\u2019s the proper #1 for Flashpoint Beyond. \u201cBatman\u2019s hunt for the Clockwork Killer brings him to Europe and face to face with the mad king, Aquaman. On the eve of Aquaman\u2019s sinking of London, Batman infiltrates his stronghold and goes on the warpath for answers. Nothing matters to Batman, whose world is already dead, but if he can track down the Clockwork Killer, Thomas can save his son\u2019s world and put everything back together again.\u201d If you were a fan of the original Flashpoint story, you\u2019ll definitely enjoy this issue. There are some major payoffs from that previous series just in issue #1 alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New from Image Comics and writer Zack Kaplan comes Metal Society. \u201cIn an inverted future, evolved robots have resurrected humans for manual labor. When a tribalistic cultural clash breaks out, a fearless human fighter and a frustrated, displaced robot will square off in a public MMA-style sport fight of epic stakes to determine once and for all who reigns supreme: man or machine.\u201d It’s Blade Runner meets Rocky in this exciting sci-fi miniseries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Writer and artist Skottie Young (I Hate Fairyland, The Me You Love In the Dark) is back again with a new epic fantasy adventure miniseries, this time joined by series artist Kyle Strahm (Spread, Unearth). A love letter to strange and imaginative stories like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, Twig is a hesitant hero on a quest to save his world. Skottie Young\u2019s work speaks for itself, but Kyle Strahm\u2019s artwork is bright and colorful with great monstrous character designs. This is the sleeper hit this week, that\u2019ll we\u2019ll be getting more of back in stock soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFollowing the big action of the regular Frontiersman series, our hero now faces the consequences! When Frontiersman is thrown in the county jail to await trial, he’s visited by an antihero who wants to free him-whether Frontiersman likes it or not!\u201d This Image superhero series was one of my highlights of 2021 and I\u2019m excited for more. There are a bunch of spinoff miniseries to come later also, so this one-shot is great for returning fans and new readers alike (we\u2019ve got copies of Volume 1 for only $9.99 too!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vault Comics was the latest publisher highlighted in my featured small press publisher article series (you can find more on those here<\/a> and also at my own personal site<\/a>). They\u2019re one of my favorite small publishers out there and specialize in funny, weird, and scary sci-fi and fantasy. This week we have a new #1 from them in Quests Aside. \u201cA skeleton, an apprentice mage, and an exiled princess walk into a bar… for another shift at Quests Aside, the local watering hole run by once legendary, now retired adventurer Barrow. When the King privately explains that he plans to shut the place down, Barrow must find a way to hold onto his business and the family he’s built around it. It’s always sunny in the realms!\u201d We now have a dedicated section for all of the small press publishers featured and written about at the back of the shop. We\u2019ll be getting a fresh restock of Source Point Press books also too, there\u2019s plenty more out there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now, for the moment you\u2019ve all been waiting for\u2026 Free Comic Book Day is back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free Comic Book Day will be this Saturday, May 7th from 10 am \u2013 7 pm. If you\u2019ve been to the shop before during FCBD, you know the drill, but otherwise, if you haven\u2019t, you can\u2019t miss it. We\u2019ll have big signs outside both the shop and the event space designating where the free books will be. It\u2019ll be in Kamm\u2019s Plaza with the shop. You\u2019ll notice the traffic and lines of people. For the first 400 people, we\u2019ll be giving away copies of Avengers #211 also!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our special guest this year is former Marvel writer and editor Jim Shooter! Secret Wars is a shop favorite and one of the best Marvel books PERIOD, so we\u2019re very excited to have him in the shop for FCBD. Jim will be here signing all day in the foyer next to the shop. We\u2019re excited to announce his signatures will be FREE, with a limit of FIVE PER PERSON. There\u2019ll be two lines, one for Free Comics and another for Shooter, so make sure you\u2019re in the one you want to be in first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the event space with the free comics, we\u2019ll also have twenty vendors set up for you all to meet. John calls it a fun pop culture \u201cfarmers market\u201d and we\u2019re stoked to have some new and familiar faces back for the day. You can find out more about who we\u2019ll have here at John’s last FCBD Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait, we\u2019ve got one last surprise also: we\u2019ll also be having a big 50% OFF BACK ISSUES SALE! This will actually start this Thursday, May 5th, and run all the way through the weekend until Sunday, May 8th. These sales are awesome and it\u2019s fun to watch back issues fly out of here. We always have our books at 25%, but that jump to 50% really makes a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WOW. I told you it was the biggest event of the year! We\u2019ve got plenty of coffee here at the shop to make it all happen, so we\u2019ll be ready. We hope to see you all and have a great time. Until then\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there, Carol and John\u2019s Shoppers, and welcome to Free Comic Book Day week! It\u2019s the most exciting time of the year at the shop, and this is our biggest event of the year; we\u2019ve got a few other fun things going on at the shop this week too. We\u2019ll get to all that in just a bit, but we\u2019ve got another Wednesday full of new comics to go over first. Marvel Comics \u201cFast approaches the ultimate destiny of one of the Jedi\u2019s most renowned masters! As he spends his final days in the remote deserts of Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi takes time to reflect on \u2014 and record \u2014 key moments of a heroic life long-lived. Writing in old leather-bound journals from his hermit\u2019s hut, Obi-Wan remembers his days as a young Jedi Initiate, his trials as a Padawan, the crucible of Jedi Knighthood, and The Clone Wars, as well as some of the earliest challenges he faced as a true Master of the Force! In this tale, Obi-Wan considers a watershed Youngling adventure he narrowly survived on Coruscant when...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-event","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}