It's Free Comic Book Day on Saturday!

You heard it here, folks. This is no hoax, no urban legend.

On Saturday, May 3, comic books across the USA will be giving out special freebie comic books. This is all an attempt to drum up business and show people that comic books aren't just juvenile literature.

And they aren't. A lot of them are written at a very mature and sophisticated level. To be sure, some of them are skill kinda dumb (a lot of the fanwankish Marvel stuff as of late, for example), but some of them are pretty darned good indeed.

Oh, and while we're on that topic, go ahead and pick up a copy of this week's "DC Universe #0." It only costs fifty cents, and it's well worth more than that.