FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!

Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, May 6th. On that day, head out to your favorite local comic shop, and get one of about 30 possible free comic books. You can check out the list of possible titles at the Free Comic Book Day website.

Now, as usual, I'm going to point out that the comic books are free to the customers, but the retailers had to pay for them (at greatly reduced prices) and so some retailers won't be carrying all the books, and you are most likely going to be limited to one or two books.

In my opinion, your best bets are Owly, Amelia Rules, or Donald Duck. If you want to check out Dark Horse's Conan, go for their offering: a Star Wars/Conan flip book. DC is only offering boring reprints, not even recent ones this year. And the other books are probably going to be hit-or-miss depending on tastes and interests.

If you are in the Seattle area, my own local comic shop is having a neat sale. Come out to Corner Comics and try to find Wolverine's Claws. It's going to be an all-weekend mega-sale, with all back issues on sale for only $1 each, and a Wolverine Claw ticket in each back issue box. If you find a Claw ticket in a back issue you've bought, you might win up to $100 in store credit, or free items. The store did a similar sale last year, where customers were hunting for Golden Tickets. This year it's also Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, so it's bonus fun.