{"id":535,"date":"2023-05-06T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=535"},"modified":"2025-03-12T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:27:10","slug":"the-haul-for-5-6-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2023\/05\/06\/the-haul-for-5-6-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haul For 5.6.23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ll be honest – while I’m glad that Free Comic Book Day<\/a> exists, and I’m always happy that lots of people show up at my local shop, I, personally, have a pretty spotty attendance record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m fairly certain that the last time I went out for Free Comic Book Day was whenever it was that DJ Khaled said that he was a selfish jerk who doesn’t head south of the border<\/a>. I remember that because I saw a lot of jokes about it as I was scrolling through Twitter while waiting in a very long line to get into the shop. (A quick search tells me that was 2018.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, I did go today, as there were a couple of things I wanted to grab. It turns out there were more than a couple, and the shop’s policy of only five books per customer led me to have to actually make some difficult choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got there earlier than I did the last time, so while I was in line, I wasn’t as far from the entrance as I’ve been at other times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we waited for the shop to officially open, they held a raffle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ended up winning the final prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also got a bookmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once inside the store, I was given the sticker that can be seen in the featured image for this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the main event, as I said, I had to make some difficult choices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d shown up for the Conan<\/em> and Red Sonja<\/em> comics, so I grabbed those right away. The remaining choices were the difficult ones, mostly because I would have liked to have grabbed the 0 issue of DC’s summer event and the Marvel Voices<\/em> comic, but ultimately, I had to go with the Frazetta book, the comic about Stan, and, of course, Lois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who can say no to Lois?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I mean, I will when the actual graphic novel comes out, as I tend to not pick up the YA books, but because it was free, I went with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Frazetta, I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee, <\/em>and Girl Taking Over: A Lois Lane Story<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Update: If you missed out on getting a copy of Conan the Barbarian<\/em>, you can download a PDF here<\/a>, or get it for Kindle here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, I didn’t plan to limit myself to freebies, even though I just picked up my books for the week on Wednesda<\/a>y, so I took a look around the store and was immediately greeted with something that I’ve been meaning to get into for a while, which was just put on display today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paper Girls: The Complete Story<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So it was a pretty good haul all around, and a positive experience for my first Free Comic Book Day since we learned that DJ Khaled is a selfish prick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows, maybe you <\/em>could have a good Free Comic Book Day, too. There’s only one way to find out<\/a>. The odds are you’ll at least have a better time than DJ Khaled’s partners do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born and raised in the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jon Maki developed an enduring love for comics at an early age.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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