The first Saturday of May is one of my favorite days of the year! Yup!
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!!
This year I went on a
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY adventure with my guy Dave, my nieces Celia and Effie and my comic book/
podcast pal
Matt. The five of us went to five comic book stores across Los Angeles and had a ton of fun.
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| Effie, Celia and Cat! |
Yup!
The day started with a visit to
GOLDEN APPLE on Melrose. We lined up at 10am as the store opened. We waited in line quite a while but got comics, Jarritos sodas and free soft serve ice cream. We got autographed
UGLY DOLL comics and met a super
WONDER WOMAN. Only one of us got the Iron Man HEROCLIX! Those guys went fast!
GOLDEN APPLE has always done a great job on FCBD and this year did not disappoint! About an hour after we left the
GOLDEN APPLE some craziness occurred! Check
THIS OUT!!!
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| Gettin' comics and Jarritos! |
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| Thanks ICEMAN for the soft serve! |
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| That's good soft serve! |
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| WONDER WOMAN and WONDER KIDS! |
Then off to a quick stop at MELTDOWN on Sunset Blvd. Meltdown was the bigger disappointment of the day. But comics were snagged for all!
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| Outside MELTDOWN! |
Then into the valley we all drove to make our way to the groovy
EARTH-2 on Ventura Blvd. It is one of my favorite shops but not one I get to that often. There was a line of people getting comics, the store was packed. This was the place my nieces and I splurged on comics. I got my weekly comics and found more goodies. Yeah, it's hard to resist comics, new, old and free!
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| STORM TROOPERS!! |
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| Sketching! |
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| Gerard Duggan was coming! |
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| SUPER FIGHT! |
After a lunch break the comic book search continued and we settled in at
BLASTOFF COMICS in North Hollywood. There was a great 50% off trade sale going on. The store is very sleek and caters to collectors. It's a super cool spot. My nieces and I found some graphic novels before we left!
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| Gimmie Gimmie! |
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| More Sketching going on! |
And then the last but never least shop on our tour was HOUSE OF SECRETS in Burbank. This is the store I visit most, just after GOLDEN APPLE. The place was pretty busy and the staff looked beat. It had been a long FREE COMIC BOOK DAY for everyone. I couldn't resist the cute please of my nieces and we found some HEROCLIXS and more kid comics.
And that concludes the FCBD 2013 adventure. As my nieces and I say, we wish everyday was
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! YUP!!
