Quote :

"Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Brainstormed by retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord CA in his "Big Picture" column in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine, it was started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry's single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors. The next event will be on May 1, 2010. Free Comic Book Day is scheduled on the first Saturday of May. It has often been tied to the release of a major theatrical film adaptation of a well known superhero property (for example, 2009's FCBD was the day after the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine), in order to take advantage of the film's heavy promotion and related press about the comic book medium. [1] [2] On Free Comic Book Day, participating comic book store retailers give away specially printed copies of free comic books, and some offer cheaper back issues and other items to anyone who visits their establishments. Retailers do not receive the issues for free; they pay 12-50 cents [3] per copy for the comics they will give away for free."

-wikipedia

Which explains why there are so many comic book movies releasing right now.

Iron Man 2

Kick-Ass

Losers

4/30/2010 10:58:17 PM

are book stores like booksamillion/barnes&noble/etc participating too? we don't have a comic book store out here in bfe

4/30/2010 11:03:48 PM

I've known of independent book store, which normally carry a small collection of comics, that have before. But I don't know how wide spread it is among bookstores. Comic shops tend to make a bigger deal of the day, by having putting some comics on sale, or free movie tickets or the like so I've never really gone to book stores for it before.

Try this store locator, might find something
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

[Edited on April 30, 2010 at 11:12 PM. Reason : .]

4/30/2010 11:11:46 PM

Free Comic Book day is today.

Also, Ultimate Comics, a local chain with a location on the other side of 40 from South Point is going to be consolidating some of its stores next month or around then. And that store near South Point is going away so it may be the last chance to check it out.

5/1/2010 3:14:44 PM