What? What?? A Bene Gesserit is going to appear here in the D.C. Metro area? Bring forth the gom jabbar! The spice must flo—oh. Sigh. It’s just a band playing under that name at Collectors Corner for Free Comic Book Day. I suppose that’s one way to participate, though naturally everyone is going to be totally talking about how Barry Windsor Smith must be rolling in his grave after X-Men Origins: Wolverine so royally messed with with Col. Wraith and Doc Cornelius and basically all of Alberta. No doubt people will also want to discuss how J.J. Abrams’s lack of reverence for the original material means he couldn’t possibly understand the significance of the Kobayashi Maru.

Ready to deliver your thesis on the menace of the Red Lanterns? Here’s where you go: Big Monkey Comics on 14th Street NW; Fantom Comics at Union Station and across from the Tenleytown Metro station; Big Planet Comics in Georgetown, College Park, and Bethesda; Alliance Comics in Silver Spring; and Aftertime Comics in Alexandria. And check in with ComicsDC, who has the list of artists, speakers, and characters making appearances in the area (including Bene Gesserit Witch). ‘Nuff said.