Free Comic Book Day 2010 Part Deux

Just a follow-up to my post on Free Comic Book Day 2010. Comics Mart remains closed and I haven't been able to pick up my FCBD books for this year.

I bought them off eBay instead and 32 out of 33 books arrived. I managed to get a discount off the price as the seller was missing the Storm Lion book, of which I already had two copies (signed no less!). That completes the FCBD book collection for 2010 and I can sit back, enjoy reading the books and look forward to the same event next year.

This year's offering includes the following:

Gold Sponsors
Archie's Summer Splash! #1
Doctor Solar/Magnus
Fractured Fables
G.I. Joe #155 ½
Iron Man/Thor
Mouse Guard/Fraggle Rock
Shrek & The Penguins
The John Stanley Library
Toy Story
War of the Supermen #0

Silver Sponsors
Sonic: The Hedgehog
Worlds of Aspen
Fearless Dawn
S.E. Hinton / Fame
Bongo: Free-For-All
Irredeemable #1
DC Kids Mega-Sampler
Del Rey Showcase
Green Hornet #1
Weathercraft!
The Overstreet Guide
Library of American Comics #0
Artifacts: First Look
Love and Capes #13
Iron Man: Supernova
The Tick #1
Oni Press Free-For-All!
The Sixth Gun #1
Radical: Bigger Books!
Atomic Robo
Storm Lion
The Stuff of Legend/Mortal Instruments Preview
Owly And Friends


P.S. I also won an auction for the missing FCBD: Cars book from 2009. When that arrives, I would have a complete collection of all FCBD books from the event's beginning. Huzzah!










Bonus - FCBD War Machine HeroClix. When Iron Man needs backup, he calls upon War Machine! War Machine is a major part of the May 2010 Iron Man 2 movie, and to capitalize on this, WizKids modified the popular War Machine sculpt from the Marvel HeroClix: Armor Wars series as 2010's Free Comic Book Day figure. This exclusive figure comes with an all-new dial and character card.


Bonus - Five FCBD 2010 temporary tattoos

Transformers D-329 - Leozack

You've probably seen the "Transformers" label listed in the banner at the top of the page and wonder when you'd me post about it. Truth is, I've been keeping all the Transformers toys in storage and haven't really played with any in recent times. But a potential sale made me go through the storeroom to dig this out.

Leozack is one part of the combiner/gestalt Lio Kaiser from the Japanese Transformers: Victory series. I had bought it off eBay years back in the hope of accummulating all the components of Lio Kaiser. As luck would have it, I managed to buy the Lio Kaiser giftset off eBay, so this piece became surplus to requirements.

It is in mint-in-box (MIB) unused condition with stickers unapplied and comes complete with all the accessories and paperwork. I don't recall what the original price was but I don't think I'm selling it at a loss. The buyer was looking for a replacement piece after he had broken the arm of his piece. I'm sure he would be treasured by his new owner.


Box (front)


Box (back). Shows stats and pictures of the other components of Lio Kaiser



Based on the F-14 Tomcat with swept wings; accessories include the Breastforce lion and Lio Kaiser's head


Accessories - Breastforce and Lio Kaiser's head


Leozack (robot mode) with attached Breastforce...I had neglected to rotate the wings upwards


Leozack (robot mode) with detached Breastforce which transforms into Leozack's weapon




Pamphlet advertisement for the some other 'bots from the Victory series


Instruction sheet, which includes the instructions for combining the other components to form Lio Kaiser

Free Comic Book Day 2010

The first Saturday of May is a huge event worldwide as far as comic books are concerned. It's Free Comic Book Day! A day when readers and the non-enlightened gather at the local comic book store to pick up a sampling of the cool comic books on offer... all for free!

Free comic books are a good reason to get out of bed in the morning... slip on my FCBD Commemorative T-shirt designed by Sergio Aragones ($1 of proceeds from sale goes to my favourite charity - the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund or CBLDF for short) and head down to G and B Comics to pick up my stash. Kudos to them for being the only participating comic shop in Singapore. Extra bonus of having some of the Storm Lion crew present for live art demonstrations and book signings. I was hoping to meet Edmund Shern (CEO Storm Lion) but unfortunately he was not present.

I've had every single FCBD book that's been put out since the start with the exception of FCBD: Cars #1 from 2009 (never made it to Singapore due to licensing issues). I hope and pray that Comics Mart returns to business sorts out whatever they need to sort out so that I can pick up the rest of my FCBD books for this year.


My CBLDF T-shirt (one size too large)


Art by Sergio Aragones


'Puppeteer' Lee of Storm Lion


My signed copies of FCBD: Storm Lion


My stash for the day... all FOC!