Free Comics
January 4, 2009
Comic book lovers, rejoice! There are some legit, free digital comic books available online, if you know where to look. Newsarama.com has a tradition at the end of each year to publish first issues of some Image comics, and this year is not exception. They have first issues of War Heroes, Pax Romana, Dead Space, The Mice Templar, Astounding Wolf-Man, Guerillas, I’ll Kill Giants, and Madman Atomic Comics. Great way to sample some series and see if anything grabs you. (As a side note, you can get issues 2 & 3 of The Mice Templar as well here, and you can watch the Dead Space Animated Comic on Xbox Live Marketplace.)
Companies like Marvel also offer free digital issues online, as well as a pay subscription service. Other sites like The Collin’s Compendium of Free Online Comic Books attempt to collate links to free issues all in one place. And if you are in the mood for some oldies, there are many issues for which the copyright has expired and they are now in the public domain. Golden Age Comics has quite a few of those.
Some comics are viewable online, while others are downloadable and viewable with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Some Adobe files are collated together in sequential order in files with the extension of .cbr or .cbz. These are viewable in programs suce as CDisplay (for Windows) or ComicBookLover (for Mac).
And of course, for some free hard copy, don’t forget to stop by your local comic store in May for Free Comic Book Day. This year, it’s on May 2nd.
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