Considering ARMS contains a complete roster of interesting, colourful characters, and fighting game fans often long for a wealthy amount of information surrounding the lore of their favourite fighters, comic books and graphic novels surrounding the game seems like a perfect idea.
Things have just become potentially even more perfect, though, as Dark Horse Comics has revealed that it will be including an ARMS comic in its Free Comic Book Day collection.
In a story based on Nintendo's exclusive fighting game ARMS, a young fighter trains tirelessly to reach the top in the ARMS League Grand Prix—but first, he must defeat 599 other contenders! ARMS is written by Ian Flynn (Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man) with art by Joe Ng (Street Fighter, Overwatch: Binary).
Free Comic Book Day is an event that takes place once a year where participating book stores across the world give away free copies of particular comics to everyone who enters that day - whilst stocks last, of course! Next year, this day will fall on 5th May so, if you're close enough to a participating store, you may well be able to grab yourself a free copy of a shiny new ARMS book! Worth a try, eh?
[source darkhorse.com]
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FREE..?!
GIMME ONE !!
Never heard of free comic book day ! Sounds good
I love the artwork that Joe Ng did for the Street comics, so this will defently be worth the trip to the comic store.
I'm hoping it'll turn into a series, there's anough fighters to make it worthwhile.
@Equinox Yeah give them enormous eyes and mouth! That won't wreck the character designs...
If budget allows, I'm in.
Looking forward to it! Designs look good to me. Would love more Nintendo comics
I can’t wait to not find one anywhere.
The art looks amazing
Last name of the artist reminds me of this.
I... haven't heard any buzz about these comics. And I am subscribed to the ARMS subreddit!
I'd pay if all available ARMS comics were digitally available on Humble Bundle or something.
@lemonjellydude It’s always the first Saturday in May. Every comic shop in the US takes part in it, and it’s generally pretty cool.
Free books range in quality, but sometimes you’ll see some really cool releases. Most comic shops run big sales that weekend too, so it’s a good time to buy loads of comics.
@Bod2019 It’s free! Your budget can handle it.
@Equinox Dark Horse May be an American company, but they’re also one of the larger manga publishers. If you want this Arms comic to come from a manga company, then you got your wish.
The only more “authentic” choice would have been a Japanese publisher, of course.
I can't wait to see myself in the comic!
Great, now I know they exist, but not whether I can get them on free comics day. That piece of information was completely useless...
@Equinox That's why it's a comic and not a manga. Have you even played the game yet?
"May the Fifth be with you." The day after Star Wars day is Jim Lahey day. He was The Liquor, now you can too!
Keen!
Also, just so everyone knows, there is almost always some really good stuff for FCBD. Not every comic is great, but the whole point of FCBD is to entice people who don't normally read comics to get into the scene, so a lot of companies put out very good work for it and emphasize stories that are good introductions to their universes. Well worth checking out aside from the ARMS book.
Dark Horse did some nifty Star Wars stuff back in the day if I remember right. Interesting.
@Equinox to be fair, the Arms cast, and most Nintendo characters already look pretty Westernized as opposed to Japanese manga-like. (Even Super Mario doesn't look like a Japanese character.) Just look at the F-Zero comic in the SNES game's manual.
Glad to hear Ian Flynn is writing it. He does great Sonic & Megaman comics. Nintendo & Dark Horse comics haven't collaborated sense the Blast Corps Nintendo Power comic, so nice to see them together again.
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