Free Comic Book Day !

Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE to anyone who comes into their stores.

So if you know a young person (or an old one for that matter), who may or may not enjoys reading very much, what better way to peak their interest in reading is there than giving them a free book?

My son and I both enjoy reading comic books together, so you can bet i'll be heading over to the nearest participating store later today with him to get our free copy of this years free comic book. 

Here are a few comic book shops in the area that will be participating in Free Comic Book Day:

AMAZING STORIES
55 White Road
Shrewsbury, NJ, 07702
(732) 747-8686

HOBBY SHOP
1077 C Highway #34
Aberdeen Townsquare Shopping Center
Aberdeen, NJ, 07747
(732) 583-0505

COMICS PLUS
2005 Rt-35
Towne Shopping Center
Oakhurst, NJ, 07755
(732) 531-1566

ZAPP COMICS!
700 Tennent Rd
Manalapan, NJ, 07726
(732) 617-1333

The Amazing Spiderman

My inner geek is starting to show - Here is the just released trailer for next years anticipated summer blockbuster "The Amazing Spiderman".

It was released by Sony Pictures earlier tonight at the San Diego Comic-Con. and it looks pretty awesome. I hope the movie turns out to be just as good as this first look trailer.

It seems by the trailer that Peter Parker's mother and father will appear in this new origin story line, for those that haven't followed Peter Parker's story line over the years, Parker's parents were US secret agents that left him in the custody of his Uncle Ben and Aunt Mae before leaving for an assignment that they never returned from. It will be of interest to see how this new plot line will play out in the movie.

Today in History for December 28th

President Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" is published; Actor Denzel Washington and comic book creator Stan Lee are born. (Dec. 28)