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 PTG Episode 19 Hour 1: Dude, it's Free Comic Book Day! [50:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (88)

Hour 1 of Prime Time Geek Episode 19 is brought to you by Free Comic Book Day. First carried out and coordinated by Diamond Comics Distributors back in 2002, FCBD has become THE day to get out to your local comic book store and geek out by grabbing free books from the publishers you love as well as ones to whom you may not have ever given a second thought. It’s the day you bring your camera to the store with you, because there’s bound to be a superhero making an appearance at some point during the day. But most of all, it’s a day for the comics industry to say ‘thank you’ to the fans who continue to buy books and get others hooked on comic books, and a day for fans to say to the world, “Hell yeah, we read comics, and you should, too!”

Cap, Boba Fett, and Snowtrooper over at Bad Apple Comics

Brian from Just Push Play with Superman at Coliseum of Comics

Aaron Haaland along with Deadpool, Black Costume Spidey, and The Flash wave to passersby over at A Comic Shop

These are just a few of the pictures we took while touring all of Orlando’s many comic book stores that Saturday–go check out the rest on our Flickr Photostream.

In Hour 1 we were graced with a surprise phone call from none other than ELROSS, the producer of SomaCow, during which he simply gushed over the fun he and his family had hitting stores and grabbing up free books. He managed to grab a few that we actually missed during our travels that he was very excited about, so check out that part of the podcast for Ross’s comic book recommendations. Turns out that Mickey from SomaCow was also out and about on FCBD–he was over at Sci-Fi City meeting Atomic Robo writer Brian Clevinger (who incidentally makes his home right here in Orlando and we hope to interview him on the air very soon!) and getting a signed copy of the FCBD edition of Atomic Robo from Red 5 Comics for me to review, so check back with us for that in the coming week. Other highlights of Hour 1 include a review of Marvel Comics’ Dark Avengers #4 and last week’s horror-show-of-a-new-Smallville episode, “Beast”, which quite honestly could have doubled as a ‘Felix is Fuming’ segment. Tell you this though: I’m not alone in my opinion of this episode and the ‘Chloe-go-stupidness’ that occurs. I felt quite validated earlier today when I came across THIS review of the episode over at Newsarama.

“What, no ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ review,” you ask? Check back tomorrow for Hour 2 of Episode 19 for that review and a whole lot more about Free Comic Book Day, right here at Prime Time Geek.