This year’s “Christmas in May” for comic book fans is now over, and it was a big success for many of us. Still, I believe some folks don’t quite understand what Free Comic Book Day is all about, so it didn’t work as well in some instances I heard about.

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: The Sixth Gun is back, and it doesn’t stop being good. Marvel Secret Empire Free Comic Book Day lands in stores on Saturday. Also, reviews of Empowered and the Soldier of Love #3, Tekken #1, and House #2.

Indie publisher Z2 Comics is including something unexpected with their Free Comic Book Day release: a new song by bluesman Robert Finley and Grammy-Award winner Dan Auerbach.

If you were dismayed that you would have to wait until June to read Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, you are in luck as Marvel is releasing a lead-in issue featuring Spider-Man and Secret Empire!

PRESS RELEASE – BOOM! Studios, in association with ABC Television Network & Twentieth Century Fox Television, is proud to reveal the cover to FRESH OFF THE BOAT PRESENTS: LEGION OF DOPE-ITUDE FEATURING LAZY BOY, available at participating stores on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 6th. Award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, New Super-Man) and artist Jorge Corona (Feathers, Teen Titans Go!) bring the stars of the pioneering hit television series to life in comic book form for the very first time… with a super-powered twist!

PRESS RELEASE – FCBD RIVERDALE, a special version of the commemorative one-shot issue that serves as a prelude to the new CW RIVERDALE TV series, will arrive in comic book shops in North America this May for Free Comic Book Day.

PRESS RELEASE – Action Lab Entertainment’s first original Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir story will be featured in their Free Comic Book Day Silver offering!

Word has been circulating on the Internet recently that DC Comics is going to start an advertising campaign in January, running eleven different commercials on select cable television channels to advertise the trade collections of the first wave of Rebirth books. These include AMC, IFC, TBS, TNT, TruTV, El Rey and Boomerang. Not the most watched of networks, but they don’t have to be. Smart idea, I think. Let me tell you why.

PRESS RELEASE – Image Comics is pleased to announce participation in Free Comic Book Day 2017 with these fun, vibrant, all-ages titles—KID SAVAGE by Joe Kelly and Ilya and I HATE IMAGE COMICS by Skottie Young. Free Comic Book Day will take place Saturday, May 6th, 2017 at participating comic book shops worldwide.

PRESS RELEASE – Portland’s premier independent comic book publisher, is excited to present their Gold and Silver Sponsor Free Comic Book Day 2017 comics—RICK AND MORTY FCBD 2017 EDITION and BAD MACHINERY FCBD 2017 EDITION!

PRESS RELEASE – Dark Horse Comics is excited to feature stories from Buffy: The High School Years and Plants vs. Zombies: Unrest in the Old West™ in our all-ages issue for Free Comic Book Day on May 6, 2017!

PRESS RELEASE – Jay Baruchel (Goon, Goon-Last of the Enforcers, This is the End, Man Seeking Woman, How to Train Your Dragon) joins the Captain Canuck team to co-write the Free Comic Book Day edition of Captain Canuck: Year One for Chapterhouse Comics with Editor in Chief and series writer Kalman Andrasofszky.

Free Comic Book Day is coming soon, and Diamond Comic Distributors has announced the all important Gold Sponsors for the 2017 event.

It’s a common phrase among comics’ fans – Death in comics is only temporary!