BW Media Spotlight

This is as much a scheduling thing as it is a logistics thing. Being lazy is just a bonus.

Scheduling is also why it took until Tuesday to go over my Free Comic Book Day haul…at least here at the Spotlight. I live-tweeted my reviews of this year’s haul, and I’ll be posting the tweets plus any other thoughts because I don’t know how much I can really add. This years comics were mostly short previews, sometimes even a set of previews, with only the rare stand-alone story packed in. I didn’t get the Disney or Ninja Turtles offerings because of how things turned out.

I went to the first comic store, my regular store back when I had income, to get some advice as to selling a bunch of comics I want to get rid of and he may take a look at what I have in the future. Also, two people were there selling art that I forgot to mention in the update for last Sunday’s Jake & Leon so let me fix that right now. The first was artist Tom Ryan, who had pins and posters for sale. Take a look at some of his stuff. I’ll put it in a gallery to save space. Click for a full-size look.

The other artist was Frank Malec, who just had posters.

If you like something there, track them down. This store had a two comic maximum so I had to choose carefully. I’m not convinced I did. Max Meow: Cat On The Street I picked up because of this site. I wanted to see if this indie title was worth promoting since smaller and self publishers seldom get attention. I should have chosen Disney or Ninja Turtles for the other. I was curious what’s been going on in the Turtles title since I was forced to stop getting it as it was one of the IDW titles I still enjoyed, but the Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics in the style of the old Carl Banks comics (the Ducktales reboot took on more of that style) was also consistent. However, I’ve always enjoyed Udon Studios’ take on Street Fighter so I went with that one.

I went to the second store but by the time I got there between when I got to the first store and doing some shopping along the way most of the good stuff was gone. I picked up Dark Crisis from DC and the Incal Universe preview for review purposes and since they didn’t have a limit I also picked up a Sonic The Hedgehog and a Three Stooges comic. In both stores I bought comics you’ll be seeing in the usual “Yesterday’s Comic” spots once I have a opening because comic stores pay for these free-for-readers comics and make no money from them unless people buy stuff. I already reviewed a Robotech comic yesterday. The free comics I reviewed live via Twitter and I’ll be posting those tweets with a few extra thoughts since I’ve time to think about them. They were reviewed in alphabetical order, so let’s begin.

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