Free comic book day!

I picked up the free Tick comic today. It was everything I'd hoped for, from the absurdity that might pass for a plot (The Tick finds out that someone has written a book about him, so he goes looking for it because he assumes it will include information about his future!)to the silly background details. The titles on the comics in the background are worth a read all by themselves. I also picked up a comic that's actually for kids, which is called Super Dinosaur. One of the parody titles in the Tick comic is "Oh Heck Dinosaurs," and I remember thinking as soon as I noticed it that I would read that in real life if it existed. And then I found Super Dinosaur, which basically is Oh Heck Dinosaurs as it actually exists, right there waiting for me. The Kung Fu Panda comic was a little disappointing-- it's not bad, but the story is really contrived and the humor isn't that strong. I guess I went into that one with inflated expectations because because I enjoyed the Secrets of the Furious Five shorts so much. On the other hand, it does feature a villainous pangolin, which is always a plus for me. My most pleasant surprise of the day was finding a cute mouse comic from a press called Archaia (which I hadn't heard of before) and, after taking it for the sheer adorability of the main character, discovering that it was doubled up with a short Dark Crystal story. I'm very pleased with the art in both stories-- quite different styles, but each well-executed in its own way.