Whoa. Somebody tell my characters to shut up!
This page took FOREVER to letter. And it pained me because I ended up covering a lot of the work that I had spent time trying to make look good. Oh well.
Nonetheless, if you have to have people standing around and talking, I guess it’s best to get as much as you can into those panels so you don’t need a dozen of them, huh?
Enjoy Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 3, everybody. If you don’t know what that is, check out www.freecomicbookday.com to see all the many, many comic books you can pick up for free — yes, really, no strings attached — at your local comic book store. And if you don’t know where one is near you, there’s a shop locator on that site, too.
I think I’m heading to Mile High Comics to see what a big store does on FCBD. And I’m hoping we’re able to pick up the “Maximum Ride” free book (I gotta find out if that’s an ongoing series!) because my daughter has started reading the books and really likes the first one.
One tip: If you do go, try to go ahead an buy some comics, too. It’s the right thing to do for the shop owners, because even though the FCBD comics are free to us, they’re not free for the shop owners — they’re paying to give them away to us in hopes that we’ll spend a little money there, too.
OK, one more tip: Get “DC Universe Number Zero.” It’s a special issue priced at only fifty cents, and it’s been advertised as a great jumping-on point for people who aren’t familiar with the wider cast of characters that inhabit the universe that Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman live in. It also kicks off a huge event that supposedly will change the DC Universe forever.
All right, one more: Pick up the Free Comic Book Day edition of “All-Star Superman” number one. It’s the first of a 12-issue series that’s going to go down as one of the greatest Superman stories ever told.
Please note that while I’m focusing a lot on superheroes, Free Comic Book Day is great for readers of every genre, which are all well-represented on the above-mentioned list. But kids need to make sure some of those titles are OK with their parents — there’s a lot of comics out there that are written for anyone but children.
Anyway, enjoy!!
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