Free Comic Book Day 2011 - Get your comics for Free!

Okay, so you walk into a book store, and you get all these comics for free... who wouldn't want that? Organised since August 2001, the Comic book industry in the US have held this one day each year, where kids (and fans) can go crazy and get selected titles from all the mayor publishers for free at their favorite local comic book store. It's an amazing feat and they're celebrating their tenth anniversary this year on may 7th, as Free Comic Book Day is being held every first saturday of May.

The Titles this year

Comic book Day 2011 has ten gold Titles and 27 Silver titles in store for free, it's great collection for everybody and has some very interesting content for everybody. Some publishers use their Free Comic Book Day title to introduce new series and/or characters.

DC Comic's title was still very hush-hush until recently, naming it their 'Top Secret' Project, but the secret's out now, their Free title is a Green Lantern /Flashpoint Special Edition, to get you ready for Warner's upcoming movie starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, directed by Martin Cambell (US Release date: June 17). DC's FCBK title reprints Green Lantern # 30 and features an exclusive preview of Flashpoint, the DC Blockbuster event of this year by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert !




Marvel Comics gives away a single issue of their succesfull 'Amazing Spider-man' series with art by Humberto Ramos, while Image publishes Robert Kirkman's 'Super Dinosaur Origin Special', with art by Jason Howard.

Darkhorse has two titles in a flipbook, one being 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars', featuring Savage Opress in 'Breakout Squad' by Grosset & Dunlap and 'Avatar: The Last Air bender', which will have it's own spin-off TV mini series later this year on Nickelodeon ('Avatar: Legend of Korra').

Boom! Studios has an issue featuring reprints of the first stories of their ongoing series 'Darkwing Duck' and 'Chip'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'

In the Silver comics line up, Marvel has another title, 'Captain America & Thor' by Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee, while DC has a 'Super sampler' featuring two new stories from their DC Kids line, 'Young Justice' and 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold', also known from the popular animated series on Cartoon Network.

From publisher Drawn & Quarterly comes a nice collection of John Stanley's stories from the John Stanley Library: 'Melvin the Monster', 'Nancy', 'Dunc and Loo' and 'The Little King'.
The Silver line up also holds a great issue of Fantagraphics's classic Mickey Mouse stories by Floyd Gottfredson, so don't miss out on those perfect classics!

Aspen Comics  has a great issue with some previews from their new 'Soulfire' and 'Fathom' storylines while showing us a little glimpse of their new titles 'Charismagic'and 'Lady Mechanika'. Bongo Comics has a crazy collection of 'Futurama' and 'The Simpsons' in an epic issue showing a cool variant on the old 'Scrooge' jokes by the great Carl Barks!

For more information on all titles, head over to the Free Comic Book day website and check for their latest updates! Check your calendar kids, May 7th is Free Comic Book Day !