Free Comic Book Month "Tinker Bell"

Welcome back to free comic book month. This week I thought I’d break the norm of super hero books, or a book with a way past cool hedgehog, and bring you something a bit more girly. Yeah, Comic_Kathy is finally doing a comic that the market would see as girly. And which comic came out that was girly you ask? Why Tinker Bell of course. Tinker Bell was a character from J. M. Barrie’s story titled Peter Pan. Of course the more famous form of this fairy is from Disney Studio’s 1953 animation of the same name. This Tinker Bell was modeled after the end all vision of beauty, Marilyn Monroe. The personality stayed about the same from the original story, with Tinker Bell being jealous of anyone who tries to warm up to her Peter. She did so by playing jokes on others, sometimes leading to very dark ends for them at the hands of Hook or the like.

Tinker Bell, as we all know, has become sort of a main mascot for Disney on her own right. The best way I can think of her is like Bugs Bunny at the beginning of many WB animations openings. Bugs is always there eating his carrot right next to the WB logo. Well Tinker Bell is the same with the Disney opening. She is the one who flies of the castle logo every time, even if she never gets close to the camera. But Disney wanted to do more with her. And so we get Disney Fairies. 

Disney Fairies is a lot of things, but a lot of what it is can be found on their own website. Mostly it is its own little world that is not part of the Peter Pan one at all, or at least very little. Tinker Bell has adventures with her friends and they learn about sharing and friendship and all that. Remember, this is aimed at little girls. So if all you big tough guys with a wall of pictures and figures dedicated to the mane six, or Ditzy “Derpy Hooves” Doo, do not like this comic, I am sorry. (I love My Little Pony, but that is a talk for another time)

Wow I talked a lot there. But let’s finally see what kind of comic Disney can put out for little girls. This is Disney Fairies Tinker Bell.

Free Comic book month "The new 52 preview"

So did you all have a fun Free Comic Book Day this past Saturday? I did. I got a huge stack of free comics. Some are full issues, but most of the main stream stuff is just a mini preview. But for this week’s comic, I have to look at the DC book. Why? Well because it has more information about Pandora, that’s why. So let’s take a look at DC’s “The New 52 Preview”

52 second wave titles part 1

Well it is May and DC is now starting it's second wave of new 52 titles. Since I talked about the first 52, I thought it was only fitting that I take a look at the new books that are coming out. Now, total, DC is still only going to have 52 main series. That means that some of the books that were around have been dropped. Those dropped books are Mister Terrifc, Static Shock, Hawk and Dove, OMAC, Blackhawks, and finally Men of War.

So do these new books do a good job? Well Let me give you my own feelings about them.

Free Comic Book Day "Contract"

In case you are not in the know, this Saturday is Free Comic Book day. It is a promotional day where your local comic shop will be handing out free comic books. While there may be rules and guidelines at your shop for what they will be getting or on how many they will be handing out, the fact remains that you are getting comic books for free. And since they are free, I don’t feel bad about posting pages from them here on my review blog. So that is why May is going to be Free Comic Book Month here on Comic_Kathy.

But I just said that the comic books won’t be coming out until this weekend. Well no need to worry. I got issues of free comics from years past. So even though it is Tuesday, you still get a free comic, even if it is from 2009. With this said, First Salvo Productions.

To be honest, there are very few reliable places where you can learn anything about them. The first is on the comic I am going to review own website. There it shows that there are only three issues of the book, and four different covers for issue 01. The page has some web comics I might have to look at in the future, an art gallery, an apparel button which my protection software says has a Trojan, and a news button which takes you to a blog. Really, on this page is nothing about the company, just what they put out.

The other source is Deviant Art, so feel free to take that as you will. The Deviant Art page has, of course, more art.

But that is enough telling you about them I think. If you really want to know what this company is famous for in my eyes, then let’s get right into looking at the Free Comic Book Day issue of “Contract”

 

Jingle Belle in The Fight Before Christmas

Jingle Belle, Jingle Belle, Jingle before May. Oh what fun it is to read about Santa’s kid today.

Yeah, kinda lame but what do you want, something cleaver?

Anyway, welcome to my Christmas Comic I promised you all last week. Since I had more than my fair share of Zatanna magic and wanted something fun and lighthearted, I found my Issue of Jingle Belle. For those of you who do not know, Jingle Belle is the creation of Paul Dini. Paul was one of the big guys from the Batman: Animated Series (The other being Bruce Timm). While it has not been updated in a very long time, the website for Jingle Belle is still up and can be found here.

Jingle Belle herself has a very confusing history that spans many books. Sometimes she is a sweet teen who helps others out, most of the time she is that bratty celebrity kid who is annoyed that everyone always relates her to her Father, Santa Clause, and acts out to try and make a name for herself. Whoever she is in any story, Jingle Belle is always enjoyable to read. So let’s not waste any more time and get right into Jingle Belle “The Fight Before Christmas”.

Zatanna Special part 2

Well you all read last week’s review, right? Let’s not waste any time and get right into part 2 after the break.

Zatanna Special

Zatanna is always awesome. My first exposure to her was in the Batman Animated series. This was “before the internet” times of the 1990’s. Yes, I know it was around, but let’s face it. The internet did not take off until the 2000’s. But I digress. Zatanna was always one of the most fun characters to ever live. Not only because she uses her powers as her day job, but because she just takes everything with a grain of salt. She knows that everything is not always like it seems. I always loved her and thought of her highly. (Overlooking that whole mind wipe thing of course)

So it was one day I was at my comic store and I found this huge 64 page giant comic about Zatanna. I saw it and I just had to know what made an issue this big. What story could be told in this 3 times bigger comic? Well I am here to share that story with you. So here is the Zatanna Special.