Friday, January 20, 2006

Getting Excited for Free Comic Book Day 2006!

This will be the 5th nation-wide Free Comic Book day, and our third one here at Neptune (since we've only been open that long). It is always a ton of fun!! Mark it in your callendar now, so we will see you then!

Saturday, May 6 — Free Comic Book Day 2006

Here's what you can expect to see as choices (we will have all of the Gold books):
GOLD SPONSORS:
Archie Comics Archie Comics 65th Anniversary
Bash Bongo Comics Bongo's Free for All 2006
Dark Horse Comics Star Wars/Conan Flip Book
DC Comics Justice League Unlimited #1
Devil's Due Publishing G.I. Joe: Sigma 6
Gemstone Publishing Walt Disney's Donald Duck 2006
IDW Transformers: Beast Wars (IDW) 2006
Image Comics Future Shock 2006
Marvel Comics X-Men/Runaways
TOKYOPOP TOKYOPOP Sneak GN

Additionally, the following publishers have signed on as Silver Sponsors and will provide the following books for this year's event (we may not order all of these titles, but will probably get most of them):
Adhouse Books Preposterous Voyages of Ironhide Tom 2006
Arcana Studios Arcana Studio Presents #3 2006
Aspen MLT Inc. Worlds of Aspen #1
Castle Rain Jack the Lantern 1942 2006
Claypool Comics Deadbeats/Soul Searchers 2006
Comic Genesis Comic Genesis Generations 2006
Drawn & Quarterly Mr. Jean
Fantagraphics Books Funny Book #2
F&W Publishing Impact University Vol. 2
Heroic Publishing Liberty Girl #0
Keenspot Publishing Keenspot Spotlight 2006
Narwain SRL Bluff & Tales from a Forgotten Planet
Oni Press Free Scott Pilgrim 2006
Top Shelf Productions Owly: Breakin' the Ice 2006
Renaissance Press Amelia Rules 2006
Sky-Dog Press Buzzboy: Sidekicks Rule #1 2006
Viper Comics Viper Comics Presents Dead @ 17
Wizard Entertainment Wizard Presents the Top 100 TPs Revised

Images for this year's titles can be found online at the Free Comic Book Day website, http://www.freecomicbookday.com.

Also on tap for Free Comic Book Day: Viz Media will publish Viz Samplers for manga lovers; WizKids LLC will create a Marvel HeroClix Wolverine Figure for players of its popular collectible Miniatures Game; and Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles will give toy collectors an exciting new addition with its Stargate Jack O'Neil Action Figure from the highly anticipated toy line based on the hit Sci Fi Channel series. Depending upon the costs for these items we will try to have some limited quantites available, and some of these "also on tap" items may have a small cost (no, we DON'T get ANY of this stuff free, not even the comics).

Once again we will collect food for the Waukesha Food Pantry on this day. For those of you who don't know how it works, every person who comes for Free Comic Book Day can choose ONE free comic book. Then, if you want additional comics you just bring in non-perishable food items. For every item you bring in you can choose an additional comic book. We usually also have in-store sales on other items too. I can't make ANY promise on this just yet, but we are also trying to get an artist in for a signing that day too.

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