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May 02, 2008

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day!

With great power comes . . . free comics! As everybody knows, or ought to know, the first Saturday in May is when comics publishers and comic book store proprietors throughout the Marvel and DC Universes celebrate their independence from bullies by giving away books for the low, low price of bupkis. Wait, strike almost all of that. First off, the perception that comics (or “sequential art,” to use the term preferred by Will Eisner,…

 
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