Fabian Nicieza has written his first Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics story for Dark Horse Comics. 

"It's a one-shot called The Lost & Found and is set between the end of last season and the start of this one, when Buffy was dead," Nicieza told The Continuum "It's Dawn's point of view as the Scoobies try to figure out exactly who they should be, etc." 

Here's how Dark Horse describes the book: 

"Buffy's dead. Her friends are trying to get on with their lives. Between them, there is enough anger, frustration, loss, guilt and tragedy to drown an ocean.or resurrect an ancient demon. Sunnydale being what it is means things aren't looking too good for the Scoobies. A lovelorn demon has been set free into our dimension, and its food is the grief of Buffy's nearest and dearest." 

Art is by Cliff Richards, Joe Pimentel and Will Conrad. The book is due in stores on March 13.

Source: Comics Continuum

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Free Comic Book Day

On Saturday, May 4th - the day after the premiere of the Spider-Man movie! - the comic book industry will sponsor Free Comic Book Day at participating comic book shops. Publishers such as Dark Horse, DC, Image, Marvel, and many more have prepared giveaway editions of some of their best titles for this special day.
It’s a chance for longtime readers and fans to score a cool free comic. But it’s also a golden opportunity for EVERYONE to get into the fabulous world of comics for FREE! All you have to do is go to a participating store on May 4, and you will get at least one of the comics below absolutely free!

Comics are better than ever, and Free Comic Book Day is the industry’s way to get the message out that comics are one of America’s most enduring forms of original entertainment, offering titles for everyone! Do your part and introduce or reintroduce someone to comics on May 4th!

For more information, visit the website:

http://www.freecomicday.com

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Lee & Loeb together on Batman

This past year, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada and his henchman Bill Jemas have had their mouth full about how they revived the comic industry. Some of their favourite techniques were:

- Throwing popular writers off their books (Claremont, Weinberg...).
- Getting the most vulgar writers you can find to work for the House of Ideas.
- Giving every underground artist you had never heard of his own Marvel book.
- Getting rid of talented writers and artists.
- Breaking with Marvel history and continuity (after all, it is a concept too difficult for their new writers).
- Making it clear they no longer want anything to do with long time readers and fans.
- Slowly rising the price on all their titles.
- Creating multiple versions of every character.
- Launching a so-called adult line (read a line of books for those people who don't seem to have discovered hentai yet and who don't know there's all kind of sites on the internet). I also wonder, does this mean all the other books are meant for kiddies?
- Turning Marvel into a copy of Vertigo.
- Destroying the X-titles.
- Screwing up most of their titles and characters (with the exception of Spider-Man... although I do wonder what happened to his baby and the fact that Peter and M.J. used to be married).
- ...

Now, this October DC takes a slightly different approach to things by taking a talented writer (Jeph Loeb) who's familiar with continuity and one of the best art teams (Jim lee & Scott Williams) in the business and putting them together on their most popular character, Batman. I don't know about you, but this Marvel Zombie is getting more and more interested in the Distinguished Competition. At least they still seem to care about fans over there...

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This October, get ready for the 12th edition of Europe's Fantasy Anime Comics Toys & Space convention. Geez... I still remember when I first went to this convention many years ago. It was their second edition back then. Things have changed much since. Unfortunately, not all for the better. for example, I'm a little disappointed the price went up once again and that there's no special 2-day fare. Still, if you live in the Benelux, this convention is a must!