Der "Free Comic Book Day" ist ein seit 2002 jährlich am ersten Samstag im Mai stattfindendes Großereignis in den USA (und mittlerweile auch in anderen Ländern), an dem in teilnehmenden Comic- und Buchhandlungen diverse Comics von verschiedenen Verlagen gratis verteilt werden. Die Verlage bringen extra für diesen Tag spezielle Comichefte mit Vorab-Versionen oder exklusiven Geschichten auf den Markt.As in prior years, Comic Genesis devoted their Free Comic Book Day issue to highlighting thirty web comics that are hosted on their site. They also include instructions on how to set up your own account with them and post your work. A novel idea - and it probably did bring in a few takers, but as a comic, it resulted in a slightly amateurish product. The production was nice, but the strips themselves often left a lot to be desired. Several forgot to even showcase why their comic is worth reading, instead devoting the whole thing to a big ad where the characters asked people to check out their strip. A few gems - worth flipping through, but there really weren't any solid standouts. Having to sift through a lot of hard-to-read and humorless strips really made it worse for the few gems in there.