Picking Through the Pickings on Free Comic Book Day - Page 4

Author: Bill Sherman — Published: May 11, 2007 at 2:04 am 4 comments

  • Transformers: Official Movie Prequel (IDW): Plowing through this well-nigh unreadable cross-promotional spin-off did one have one surprising effect: it got me appreciating later Jack Kirby – who could make this brand of mystico-cosmic gobbledegook actually sound it made sense – much more than I previously had. Definitely (to make the obvious joke), less than meets the eye.

  • Wahoo Morris (Too Hip Gotta Go): Apparently positioning itself to be the next Strangers in Paradise (a rip-off of a Love And Rockets rip-off – aren't we approaching Michael Keaton in Multiplicity here?), this B-&W opening chapter introduces us to a punkish rock band and their struggling loves – somehow book-ended with an Exorcist-reminiscent plot involving hornéd demons. No, I don't know what it means, but I did rather like writer/artist Craig Taillefer's admission that he "edited out all of the naughty bits" from the original version of the story. Presumably to circumvent any parental complaints if any young 'uns inadvertently bring this title home. Hey, guy, don't you know that even the suggestion that these characters have naughty bits is too much for some parents?

  • Who Wants to Be A Superhero? (Dark Horse): Wherein the once mighty Stan Lee hacks out an eight-page intro with a beaten-up supertype flashbacking to the beginning of his origin ("Now I remember – how it started . . .") Gotta tell ya, this lame exercise depressed the hell outta me – even more than Lee's egregious Just Imagine mini-series or Stripperella. Excelsior, my ass . . .
    • Anybody got an extra Unseen Peanuts hangin' around the place?

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    • 1 - Robert

      May 11, 2007 at 5:56 am

      Free comic book day - Yay! What a great day!
      New Gumby comics? Gumby is getting around.
      It's a Gumby Party!

    • 2 - G.

      May 11, 2007 at 10:41 am

      Good selection.

      By the way, there is a Web site that you can check out called WOWIO (wowio.com). They have free comics in electronic form available all year, not just one day. :)

    • 3 - Kaonashi

      May 11, 2007 at 3:28 pm

      How odd that Free Comic Book Day would coincide with Cinco de Mayo.

    • 4 - Bill Sherman

      May 11, 2007 at 4:36 pm

      Each Free Comic Book Day has been scheduled to take place on the first weekend of a Big Comic Movie (this year's, of course, being Spider-Man 3) - on the as-yet-unproven theory that the two events will feed off of each other. This year's Spidey flick had its weekend debut on Cinco de Mayo: not as inconvenient for retailers as the summer FCBD was held on a July 4th weekend to align with that year's Big Superhero Movie . . .

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