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Free Comic Friday: FreakAngels

Rob LeFebvre — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:30:59 +0000

Do yourself a favor, if you haven’t already, and head over to http://freakangels.com. Start at the beginning. Do not stop reading. You won’t want to.

Written by internet jesus, Warren Ellis and drawn (and originally colored) by Paul Duffield, this comic is the real deal. You can even go buy trade paperbacks of the volumes. The characters and dialogue are up there with the best he’s done, and the watercolor style and clean lines of Duffield is as good as anything seen in the printed world. What’s best? This comic comes out every friday for FREE. That’s right, you can read six pages of the story every week, right at FreakAngels.com. There are also some SWEET merchandising to be purchased as well, so make sure you buy us that messenger bag, ok?

The story so far is this: a bunch of hip twenty somethings are surviving in a post-flood-event Whitechapel, in the UK. They have freaky psychic powers that seem, as yet, untapped. They’ve settled into the role of protectors for this town of event survivors, and all play differen troles in the community. Kaz the engineer, Kait the policewoman, Arkady the freaky chikkinz lady, who has pushed her powers (“the package”) past what most of the kids are doing these days.

Add in tons of sexuality, a couple of misfits and enemies from within the FreakAngel ranks, and a ton of ethical and moral dilemmas laced with a serious dose of bakc humor, and you’ve got a series that should keep you busy every Friday for the rest of the run, which doesn’t seem to have much of an end in sight. Make sure you head over, right now, and either get to know FreakAngels or catch up on the amazing story.

Free Comics Friday 2/5/10

Rob LeFebvre — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:59:11 +0000

You know what a comic is, right? Images, words, etc. It’s fairly easy to get these comics online, especially if you’re a publisher. So, every Friday, we’re going to bring you a bunch of free issues that you can download or read online, legal and easy, right from the publishers’ own sites, blogs and popular series.

If you’re a comics creator, feel free to hit us with your own work and we’ll get it out to all our rabid fans. All three of them! Hah. So, here’s your first Free Comic Friday. This week? We’re focusing on free digital comics on the iPhone and iPod Touch:

Box 13

This one’s free on your iPhone, and you can read it online right from comixology’s site. There are currently nine issues in the queue, just waiting for you to download or click your way through.

Writer: David Gallaher
Art By: Steve Ellis
A reimagining of the popular radio serial, BOX 13 follows the harrowing adventures of author Dan Holiday as he unlocks clue to his past and his very identity.
Investigative author Dan Holiday has spent the last several years of his life researching the secrets behind the MKULTRA project. His latest book has brought him a degree of notoriety around the country and around the world. And, during his recent book tour – Dan discovers something that will change his life forever. Join him as he learns what lurks inside Box 13.

Bardo

Get a sneak 8-page look into this fascinating series named for a word that means literally “intermediate state” – also translated as “transitional state” or “in-between state.” The first issue is also available, for only $.99.

Cover By: Kate Hockstein

Writer: Deegan Winters

Art By: Simon Winheld
Fifteen year old Caleb Monroe’s violent death hurtles him into the Bardo realm where his fears and passions take the form of enemies and allies, and the only way to break free from the Mindscape’s dark entanglements is to unravel the mind that created them. “Those who fear the feeling are soon to feel their fearing, and those whose fear is felt are dealt a healthy dealing.” – The words of Lord Mallux.

The Hunter #1

The featured free comic on Panelfly at this point in time, released on September 2, 2009, coming in at 67 pages. It tells the story of Gabriel Mot, a CIA agent with extraordinary powers, and the start of his investigation into four major terror attacks on America.

Writer: Adam Hamdy

Artist David Golding

Elephantmen #1:

Another Panelfly free comic, this one’s hard to pass up. They were genetically engineered to be suprahuman weapons of mass destruction, but now they must walk amongst the people they were created to destroy. Elephantmen is an American ongoing monthly comic book published by Image Comics and written by Richard Starkings with art by Moritat and a number of other artists. Issue #1 was released in July 2006.

Comixology Releases for 1/27/10

Rob LeFebvre — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:19:14 +0000

A ton of releases this week for Comixology. It’s like having a local comics shop in your iPhone or iPod Touch. Don’t get us started on how amazing this’ll be on the iPad! Here’s this week’s list.

Bardo Preview
JFH: Justice-For-Hire Preview #1
Box 13 #8
Beautiful Creatures #2 (of 2)
Grimm Fairy Tales #11
Grimm Fairy Tales #10
Hunter Killer #4
Hunter Killer #3
Hunter Killer #2
Irredeemable #9
Irredeemable #8
Irredeemable #7
Irredeemable #6
Irredeemable #5
New X-Men #24
New X-Men #23
New X-Men #22
New X-Men #21
The Darkness Vol. 3 #5
Tom Corbett: Space Cadet #3
Tom Corbett: Space Cadet #2
Tom Corbett: Space Cadet #1
Valentine (Russian) #1
Voltron Defender of the Universe Vol 2 #11
Witchblade #84
X-Men #17
X-Men #16
X-Men #15
X-Men: Colossus Bloodline #5 (of 5)
X-Men: Colossus Bloodline #4 (of 5)
X-Men: Colossus Bloodline #3 (of 5)
X-Men: Colossus Bloodline #2 (of 5)
X-Men: Colossus Bloodline #1 (of 5)

Free Comics Friday

Rob LeFebvre — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:58:05 +0000

DEMO Volume 1 issue #1, here. – here’s the first of 6 brand-new, single-issue, done-in-one stories from Brian Wood (DMZ, NORTHLANDERS) and Becky Cloonan (AMERICAN VIRGIN, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), each one just as powerful and emotionally charged as the original run.

Human Target - Download Issue #1 Written by Peter Milligan; Art by Edvin Biukovic and Javier Pulido; Cover by Tim Bradstreet – Collecting the Vertigo title that inspired the upcoming Fox TV series! Christopher Chance makes his living by turning himself into a human target.

Joe The Barbarian – Download Preview (Issue 1) – story by master storyteller Grant Morrison with lush art by Sean Murphy (Sean does an On The Ledge column this month)

Fell #1 – You can’t go wrong with this darkly humored noir book by Ellis and Templesmith

Dynamo 5 #1 – I read this first on the PSP and found it strangely compelling. An interesting take on the superhero genre.

Grrl Scouts, Vol. 1 #1 – can you not just dig that cover?