Free comic book day!

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

Ok, so due to time differences, my free comic day comes earlier than most!

Ner ner... nah, just kidding. Enjoy your Saturday!

So there are two places I can get comics in the Sydney CBD. One I got two comics from (yay!) and the other only one, but it had a setup with local comic book and manga artists, so that was pretty cool too.

Anyways, what I wanted to show was this:

 

This I got from David Yardin, who draws mainly X-Factor covers, but was nice enough to draw Tony for me, even if he thought having no helmet was making things overly complicated :P

Apologies for picture quality, I don't have a scanner, so this was taken on my digital camera.

Oh and yeah, as the image shows, my name's Hanna. Er, hi.

If anyone wants to know, I got Captain America Thor: The Mighty Fighting Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man and Young Justice/ Batman the Brave and the Bold Super Sampler.

If the image doesn't work, try here: i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww198/Moon_Flame/DSCF0974.jpg

Comments

[mozzarellaroses.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, gorrrrgeous.

[chariflame.livejournal.com]

That art is gorgeous! All the comic stores in London were all out of the Cap & Thor comic... :(

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

Aww it's cute too. I was soo lucky, I didn't get into the city until 1, but I managed to get everything I wanted... well the 3rd one was because I didn't know King's would let me take two.

[valtyr]

): You have to get in early. I got mine at Forbidden Planet, but they had them at Gosh! until lunchtime.

[chariflame.livejournal.com]

Yeah I got into town a little later than anticipated... So I have nobody to blame but myself I guess! and tube delays

[cosmicbiscuit.livejournal.com]

Luckyyyyyy. I'll just be over here quietly sulking in jealousy because the only two comic book shops within an hour's distance decided not to participate at all this year.

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

I have very nice friends who told me where to go, and reminded me which day it was. The two shops are around an hour's distance from me, too.

[dangwhyme.livejournal.com]

That's simply awesome.

[brummel.livejournal.com]

HOMG that EAR. JESUS. MAY I CHEW ON IT FOREVER IN MY DREAMS

[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

I had already seared the impossibility of any of my local comic book stores participating in the Free Comic Book Day event into my brain weeks ago ("only one out of two actually focuses on American comics, I live in a European, non-English-speaking country, there's not a big market for it"), I was positively floored when I visited their home page earlier this week saw that OH YEAH WE'RE PARTICIPATING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FREE COMIC BOOK DAY.

Mind. Blown. So I got the Captain America/Thor issue and the YJ/Batman:BatB sampler. :D

(Then I spent the rest of the day alternating day-to-day activities with queing for a signing with Bryan Lee O'Malley and finishing the first season of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes at a friend's place. So uh, I still haven't actually read any of the comics I got.)

And guh, gorgeous art is gorgeous. Every time I see art of Tony as he was portrayed in the early days of the series, it gets more and more obvious to me that he was modelled after Clark Gable. Which is not a bad thing, but considering this fandom's relationship to Gone With The Wind, all kinds of hilarious.

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

You for you!

I didn't know comic book day was actually a thing here. (I grew up in a small town, it was over an hour to drive to the nearest city :()
But, yeah, my friends are very nice.

I fully approve watching Earth's Mightiest Heroes :P

That is most hilarious.

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I fail. I meant to say "Yay for you!"

Also, after reading your post, I had the Camelot song from Holy Grail stuck in my head. For most of the day. My mind is a strange place.

I could not resist.

[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

(http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l26/Taiyou_to_tsuki/?action=view&current=camelot.jpg)

It's only a model.

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[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

Shh!

(brb, dying of lols)

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[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

The routines and chorus scenes were just a couple of the things Doom and Iron Man agreed never to talk about once they returned to their own time. Even though their footwork was impeccable.

(This also adds a completely new dimension to the "impersonate Clark Gable" line... Tony Stark, I'm looking at you.)

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[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

"Tony...what kind of sandwich is that?"

"Ham and jam and spam. A lot of it. Why do you ask, Steve?"

"...oh, no reason."

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[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

The aftermath of the Avengers' Monty Python marathon left Steve feeling very torn. On one hand, Tony was actually eating well the day after. On the other, he couldn't shake the feeling that ham, jam and spam sandwiches were just a new low when it came to Tony's bad habits.

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[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

I have the image in my head now of a very reluctant Tony being dragged by the scruff of his neck out of a castle. Steve is forging ahead with a determined look.

"I was in the nick of time, Tony, you were in great peril!"
"I don't think I was."
"Look, let me go back in there and face the peril."
"No, it's too perilous."
"Look, I'm an Avenger, I'm supposed to face as much peril as I can!"
"No, we've got to find the Cosmic Cube. Come on!"
"Well, let me have just a little bit of peril?"
"No, it's too perilous."
"Spoilsport."

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[tonks07.livejournal.com]

LOL! I want an entire Monty Python/Avengers mashup to happen now.

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[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

Steve just doesn't want Tony to get into any peril without Steve right behind. *Cough*

Also, a Monty Python/Avengers mashup... INTERNET, MAKE IT HAPPEN.

*Looks around expectantly*

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[shariangel.livejournal.com]

*looks around for spies* working on something! shhhh

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[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

... I love it when the internet adheres to my every whim.

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[shariangel.livejournal.com]

Or when someone was already doing what you asked, before you asked :P Always fun.

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[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

Pfft, same thing. Fandom hivemind and all that. |Db

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[shariangel.livejournal.com]

And now you see how that song got in my head... that and the discussion about Cap and Thor :P. Maybe my head is not as strange as first though... NAH!

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[shariangel.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Is it a requirement for superheroes to go to Camelot at some point?

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[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

Yes.

And in a perfect world, we would get a Langridge/Samnee comic with Cap, Thor and Iron Man teaming up with Arthur against Doom, Loki, Morgana Le Fey and their army of undead warriors and dragons (or undead dragons?).

Alas, the world is not perfect and I have to make do with these two storylines being separate.

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

I love the Cap and Thor comic. Steve was so adorably excited about being in Camelot and dressing up like a knight! And I love how, in the WWII bits, they still hadn't named him. Hee.

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

I bet it was weird from the soldiers' POV. Cap disappears, and like 2 seconds later, he reappears, wearing armor!

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

If they've been hanging out with Cap for any length of time, they must be used to weirdness.

[valtyr]

Ooo, pretty! Thanks for sharing. :D

[cookinguptales.livejournal.com]

Laaaate, late, I'm late, but omg that is gorgeous. :O

I love FCBD. My LCS is the best LCS ever (don't even argue) and they actually ordered extras of a few of the ones they knew I'd be interested in so I didn't have to worry about them running out. I haven't even been in the state, and they were still thinking about me. BEST EVER. I ended up picking up Darkwing Duck/Rescue Rangers, Captain America/Thor, Amazing Spider-Man, YJ/BATB, Atomic Robo, Elric, and uh. The Mis-Adventures of Adam West. I JUST HAD TO, OKAY?

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

That sounds great! The ones I went to are the only comics stores in the CBD. They have to be prepared for EVERYONE.

[bluehopex.livejournal.com]

Oh! That´s a really good piture of Tony! Very pretty:) How nice of him to make you one.
In sweden we don´t have free comic´s day, atleast not what i heard of, and if we got it there probably arent any in the city where I live, we don´t even have a pure comic book store here. We used too but as soon i got aware of it´s exisense and began buying comic´s there it closed for good.
Also i will answer you e-mail soon but for some reason my hotmail have decided it dosent think sending e-mails are a fun thing to do rigth now. Hopefully it will change it´s mind soon:(

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

Oh it got to you? So glad. I was worried it had bounced.

I grew up in a small town, no comics stores at all.

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome sketch you got! I'm glad you had a great FCBD!