It’s your friendly annual reminder to go out and visit your friendly neighborhood comic shop and pick up some free comics.

Free Comic Book Day is an annual event that takes place the first Saturday in May (May 7, 2011) to help generate – or regenerate – interest in comic books.

A lot of the big comic companies release titles for the day and, depending on your shop, you can often find a few decent indies as well. Some even dump out those quarter boxes simply to get them out of the store. (But please, please, please do not think that every comic in the store is free).

It’s your friendly annual reminder to go out and visit your friendly neighborhood comic shop and pick up some free comics.

Free Comic Book Day is an annual event that takes place the first Saturday in May (May 1, 2010) to help generate – or regenerate – interest in comic books.

A lot of the big comic companies release titles for the day and, depending on your shop, you can often find a few decent indies as well. Some even dump out those quarter boxes simply to get them out of the store.

Free stuff. I love it. And what could be better than free stuff? More free stuff, of course.

Free Comic Book Day is an annual event that takes place the first Saturday in May (May 2, 2009) to help generate interest in comic books. Both the biggies and the indies offer some pretty cool print pubs that you can grab for free at your local comic shop.

There are two notable game-related titles on the agenda (Sonic and Warhammer) as well as a William Shatner book, a Magic: The Gathering sampler, a new Green Lantern comic intro (Blackest Night #0) and a Minimate figure…

Although Free Comic Book Day is all about comic books, there was plenty of videogame tie-in material scattered throughout. Sure, it was last month but I finally had time to read through all the freebie goodness I picked up and scan a bunch of pages.

Free Comic Book Day is held the first Saturday in May each year. Participating comic book stores across the US provide free comics to anyone who walks in. Some places let you take a bunch, some only let you take a couple. The purpose is to help stimulate the comic book industry as well as promote various products. A few stores will also clean out some of their excess stock on these days, setting sales comics out for the taking as well.

Some even set out the leftovers for anyone to grab – so head to your local comic book specialty shop now!

Click through to get a summary of some of the gaming tidbits I found along with plenty of cover art…