Free Comic Book Day - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sat, 03 May 2025 11:56:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Free Comic Book Day - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 A quick and dirty guide to Free Comic Book Day 2025 https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/03/free-comic-book-day-2025/ Sat, 03 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52437 Happy Free Comic Book Day / Thunderbolts* weekend! It’s that magical day of the year when comic shops (pay to) give away select free titles from publishers in a bid to get folks excited about a Marvel movie to check out the source material. The observance comes at a weird time, both for the industry...

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]]> 52437 The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 338: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly talk Timeless, Trek & more https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/04/tcxfip-338-lanzing-kelly/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51573 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 338: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly talk Timeless and Star Trek Co-writers and best friends Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing join the show to talk about Power Man: Timeless, their upcoming Star Trek event Lore War, and much more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts,...

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]]> 51573 All-New, All-Different X-Men?! Marvel offers a peek into 2025 with Free Comic Book Day titles https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/24/marvel-free-comic-book-day-2025/ Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50846 Marvel on Monday announced five Free Comic Book Day 2025 titles, some offering warm-ups to big summer storylines, some offering sampler platters of regular titles, and one advertising shows on Disney Jr. Perhaps most relevant to this website’s interests, a Fantastic Four/Giant-Size X-Men book teases “the birth of the All-New, All-Different X-Men,” in a story...

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]]> 50846 The Good Book in comics, or, when not to quote the King James Version (an FCBD X-Men review) https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/06/comics-king-james-bible/ Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48829 In Daredevil Vol. 8 #6, aka Daredevil #668, Matt Murdock, with the assistance of Doctor Strange, summons a gateway to Hell in part by quoting the book of Proverbs. Proverbs (or מִשְלֵי) is a book found within the Jewish and Christian scriptural canons. It is a collection of short sayings meant to impart wisdom; here,...

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]]> 48829 The Amazing Spider-Man Free Comic Book Day Issue Teases a Fiery Spidey Fight https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/10/amazing-spider-man-free-comic-book-day/ Tue, 10 May 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40638 Spider-Man has to face a new foe: a hungry, sentient mailbox! But is there more behind this? Obviously yes. Find out what’s in store for the webslinger in the Amazing Spider-Man Free Comic Book Dat special written by Zeb Wells, pencilled by John Romita Jr., inked by Scott Hanna, colored byMarcio Menyz and lettered by...

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]]> 40638 An X-Men freebie and Giant-Size Magneto cap our staff picks for July 15 https://comicsxf.com/2020/07/13/an-x-men-freebie-and-giant-size-magneto-cap-our-staff-picks-for-july-15/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=6877 Each week, XavierFiles staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. CHRIS’ PICK: FCBD X-Men #1: Free Comic Book Summer begins with a sneak peek at this fall’s “X of Swords” by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz (aka Team “House of X”) and a...

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