Saturday Is Free Comic Book Day!

Yes, that's right, comics stores are giving away free comic books again! This is the biggest Free Comic Book Day ever, with by my count, 43 free comic books available. Here's the Website, and here's a list of the comics that will be available. But that's just titles--if you want to see covers and descriptions, you can go here and here. You're not sure where there's a comics store near you? They've got that covered, too. Some stores are going all out and organizing special events such as signings by creators. The Free Comic Book Day Website has a handy list of those, as well, helpfully divided into the categories of United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. And if you can't get to an actual comic book store, you can still get some free magazines about comics. TwoMorrows Publishing has a few PDFs of its magazines that it's making available for free on Saturday and Sunday only. Take a look to see if any of them interest you.

This is the sixth Free Comic Book Day, and for much of that time, there's been some discussion about whether it's more effective for the event to stand or to piggyback on some other major media comic-book tie-in. Last year, the day did pretty well on its own, but this year, of course, it coincides with the opening of Spider-Man 3. Me? I'm looking for another tie-in. Given that Free Comic Book Day this year falls on Cinco de Mayo, I'm looking for the comic store that's serving margaritas.