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Comment from: DocN posted at May 8, 2005 12:36 AM

What, we have to write about our own day?

Um, okay. Sunny, warm, gorgeous. Car show. Lots of photos. Got out my own hotrod, went cruising.

Then, picnic, sort of.

Summer is finally here.

Doc.

Comment from: toddandpenguin posted at May 8, 2005 12:45 AM

I went with my wife to this comic book/used book shop in St. Augustine and picked up some of the Free Comics. I didn't realize that the shop had to pay for the comics. I was thrilled to see a free comic for Flight, which of course, featured BEAUTIFUL artwork! Unfortunately, I didn't see too many other web comic related free comics there.

Best of all, though, and this surprised me to no end. I went with my wife, who has never read a comic book. Doesn't really read any comics other than mine, or the occasional one I suggest to her. She actually saw a comic she liked the artwork on, AND bought not one, but 4 back issues!!

I couldn't believe it! She doesn't read comics, and picked up 4 of them, and is actually looking forward to reading them.

Wow.

Comment from: Merus posted at May 8, 2005 12:57 AM

It is Mother's Day here. As it turns out, it's the interference in other people's lives that really gives your own life context, and so a day to give your Mum chocolate becomes a way to acknowledge your relationship, ever-present, but oft taken for granted.

Comment from: Tangent posted at May 8, 2005 1:05 AM

My free comics are found on-line.

Well, except for the Modern Tales ones. *wink*

Tangented a couple of them, in fact. Sorry Eric's under the weather though... (I assume that's what you were talking about at the start of the snark...)

Robert A. Howard

Comment from: Montykins posted at May 8, 2005 1:32 AM

I went to the cool local comic book store owned by a friend of mine and got a huge pile of comics. But he didn't have any Free Comic Book Stuff, because apparently you have to order a huge stack of Marvel and DC stuff before you're allowed to get the Alternative Free Comic Book things. So he sent me to the slightly larger store down the street.

Even there, they didn't have the Keenspot one.

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at May 8, 2005 1:59 AM

Kinda disappointing. Oh, there was plenty of good stuff, but it was all stuff I'm already buying. No discoveries this year, like Amelia Rules, Serenity Rose or Errant Story. Granted, the Slave Labor FCBD book didn't ship to any of the stores I checked, so there's still hope for the year, but....

Comment from: Alexis Christoforides posted at May 8, 2005 2:03 AM

The local comic book store only had some Marvel stuff in the corner, pretty pathetic.

I wanted Flight, but oh well. I got a Spider-man comic, ran off and came back home to finish reading Cerebus "Reads", which satisfies my weekly requirements of weird.

Oh and Weds, good luck going through that Brain Eclipse. I've had one myself two weeks ago. I went from A to C in a class and managed to lose half of my portable belongings in two days. Not fun!

Comment from: Phil Kahn posted at May 8, 2005 2:28 AM

Personally I had a FENSHMASTIC Free Comic Book Day! I got to bring home so much, and I'm going to evaluate it all over on I'm Just Saying and do a bit on OTHER print comics I'm reading and YEAH!

I partied pretty hearty tonight.

Comment from: miyaa posted at May 8, 2005 3:11 AM

I buy a Wirepop subscription basically for Realms of Ishikaze, which is a spoof of MMORPG games (i.e. World of Warcraft). I buy a Modern Tales Subscription solely for Narbonic (So Dave and Narbonic actually kissed...probably on their way to waking up naked in bed and wondering what the hell happened?), and Pewfell which is yet another spoof on medieval fantasy and the whole D&D genre. All three of these comics would make great games to play.

Comment from: Doug posted at May 8, 2005 5:13 AM

Illness, hmm? Followed up by altogether too happy-coma-making drugs in search of relief? I bet that's just a cover story, and what's really happened is that snark on Harlequin Romances followed someone home and took root.

I'll wager that someone is curled up with a copy of Destiny and is too engrossed to notice the weekend is slipping by, snarkless.

Well, it's that or the drugs doing it. Personally, I hope it's the drugs. At least with those you have some chance of escaping any addiction that forms.

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at May 8, 2005 11:22 AM

Free Comic Book Day. Right. Uh...

We got the car an oil change and a tire rotation, and bought a propane tank for the grill our neighbors gifted us. Then I under cover of getting a haircut I bought my wife Gilmore Girls Season 1 for mother's day (don't tell her, she hasn't gotten it yet). Then I drew Sunday's cartoon, one of those update-on-time-with-a-gag-I-hadn't-yet-written-when-I-woke-up gags that give me such a charge. We had burgers on the grill and finished Potter/Chamber and looked at some of the features on the second disk, and went to sleep.

Get better soon, you guys.

Comment from: kirabug posted at May 8, 2005 11:47 AM

Closet shelving. Lots of closet shelving. I now have what might be the most expensive closet on the east coast. And more closet shelving to work on today. whee!

But I did get to spend time with my sister, and my brother cooked Mother's Day dinner so we all congregated for that. And I created swatch files for all the characters in my comic, which took a lot more time than it sounds like it would.

Comment from: William_G posted at May 8, 2005 1:27 PM

I bought a Neal Diamond CD yesterday, this song is good:

Sweet Caroline

Where it began

I canÌt begin to knowinÌ

But then I know itÌs growinÌ strong

Was in the spring

And spring became the summer

WhoÌd have believed youÌd come along

Hands, touchinÌ hands

ReachinÌ out

TouchinÌ me

TouchinÌ you

Sweet Caroline

Good times never seemed so good

IÌve been inclined

To believe they never would

But now I

Look at the night

And it donÌt seem so lonely

We fill it up with only two

And when I hurt

HurtinÌ runs off my shoulders

How can I hurt when IÌm with you

Warm, touchinÌ warm

ReachinÌ out

TouchinÌ me

TouchinÌ me

Sweet Caroline

Good times never seemed so good

IÌve been inclined

To believe they never would

Oh, no, no

Sweet Caroline

Good times never seemed so good

IÌve been inclined

I believed they never could

Sweet Caroline

Comment from: Bo Lindbergh posted at May 8, 2005 1:43 PM

I used Free Girlamatic Day to find all the eggs.

Comment from: cortland posted at May 8, 2005 3:28 PM

Lincoln had two participating comic shops, so I went to both. I knew from experience last year that the downtown comic shop would have all the best free comics, so I stopped there to make sure I grabbed the Keenspot sampler, which was great as expected, and a couple others that looked interesting. Then I bought Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics while I was there to show my appeciation for their participation.

At the other comic shop, they had several bins of 3/$1 comics. Once I started in with those, it was like potato chips. I found a TheNorm.com compilation in there that was pretty nice.

All in all, it was a great day. I have lots of happy reading ahead!

Comment from: Montykins posted at May 8, 2005 3:56 PM

Oh, also, the "bigger" comic book shop I had t o go to to get my Free Comic Books had a limit of two per person. It was pretty disappointing, frankly.

Comment from: Kate Sith posted at May 8, 2005 5:48 PM

I couldn't get out in time for FCBD. And that day has always been exciting/awesome/eventful in the past, so this made me sad. Instead I had Expensive Italian Food and Rantings About Japan Night (the Rantings were free). That made things a bit better.

Comment from: Axonite posted at May 8, 2005 11:19 PM

My wife and I went to a couple stores on FCBD to see if there was anything interesting (got the Keenspot book, among others), and to add the photocopied Station V3 books I made to their selection of free books. (Did that last year, and they had no problem with it, so I figured I'd do it again this year! Especially since there wasn't a Keenspace book to be in this year.)

Comment from: sinless posted at May 8, 2005 11:53 PM

Actually drove ourselves all the way down to CAPE. We wandered, we got free stuff (including a sketch of Aubrey from s*p as Wonder Woman for myself), and we drove all the way back to OKC.

Comment from: Prodigal posted at May 9, 2005 12:41 AM

I drove to CAPE after my Statistics final was done with, and got a sketch of Mike from S*P as Guy Gardner ("Not because I like Mike," I said to Randy, "but because I hate Guy Gardner.") Met Lea Hernandez, who made a sketch of a character concept I came up with awhile back, and absolutely nailed it. Got a sketch of Skull as the Super-Skrull, and picked up a panel of original Two Lumps art.

Then I had dinner with my girlfriend and somebody I met at CAPE, and after that I pretty much called it a day. All in all, was good.

Comment from: quiller posted at May 9, 2005 4:17 PM

Umm, slept in, played computer games, had dinner, went to Regency Dancing. Pretty normal weekend.

Comment from: gwalla posted at May 10, 2005 1:08 AM

I read the archives of Li'l Mell and Lucas & Odessa for FCBD. Both get the Gwalla Seal of Approval.

I didn't make it to the store, because I was at a wedding (not mine) for most of the day.

Comment from: Alun Clewe posted at May 10, 2005 2:19 AM

I made a post about my FCBD experiences (among other things) in my LiveJournal, but to summarize...

Planned to hit five different comic book shops on FCBD; due to car troubles only ended up getting to three, and the last of those three was a waste of time. But the second, in particular, was worth the visit; not only did the proprietors say I could take as many of the free comic books as I wanted, within reason (the "within reason" presumably referring to grabbing up multiple copies of the same comic), but I later realized that many of the "free comic books" that store had been giving away weren't actually FCBD free comic books after all--the store owners had apparently decided to go the extra mile and throw in some cheap twenty-five and fifty-cent comics with the FCBD comics and give those away for free too...

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