Free Comic Book Day 2023: Discover Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa’s Mech Cadets before the Netflix show!

For this year’s Free Comic Book Day, BOOM! Studios is giving you a chance to discover Mech Cadets Yu with the Mech Cadets 2023 FCBD Special. It’s a free special issue from highly acclaimed writer Greg Pak, artist Takeshi Miyazawa, colorist Triona Farrell, and letterer Simon Bowland, the exclusive free reprint of the very first Mech Cadet Yu issue, soon to be a television show on Netflix.   

Mech Cadets 2023 FCBD Special featuring a cover by series artist Miyazawa, arrives in comic shops worldwide on Free Comic Book Day, May 6, 2023.

Ahead of the highly anticipated premiere of the Netflix animated series, return to Sky Corps Academy in this exclusive reprint of the first issue of Mech Cadet Yu. Every year, giant sentient robots from outer space come to Earth and bond forever with a brand new crop of cadets at Sky Corps Academy to help keep the planet safe. But this year, instead of making a connection with a cadet, one of the mechs bonds with Stanford, a young kid working with his Mom as a janitor at Sky Corps. Stanford has the opportunity of a lifetime but he’ll first have to earn the trust of his classmates if he’s to defend the planet from the monstrous Sharg. It’s the perfect time to revisit this iconic story by bestselling writer Greg Pak and fan-favorite artist Takeshi Miyazawa!

The Mech Cadets 2023 FCBD Special will be accompanied by the release of Mech Cadets Book One on May 23, 2022. Mech Cadets Book One is the first complete collection of the original 12 issue Mech Cadet Yu run ahead of the Netflix 3D animated series that it inspired, coming to the streaming service in 2023.