This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day in Ireland. Free Comic Book Day started in the USA in 2002, and as the name implies, is a day when participating retailers hand out copies of comic books to their customers for free.

Here is the list of shops involved in Irish Free Comic Book Day:

• Easons book shop in Heuston Station
• Forbidden Planet in both Dublin and Belfast
• Other Realms in Cork
• Sub-City Comics in both Dublin and Galway
• The Winding Stair in Dublin

There will be five titles available:

• In Dublin City – preview
• Formation 7 – preview
• Freak Show, issue #1 – full copy
• Róisín Dubh – preview
• Vampire Apocalypse – preview

Each person can get one copy of the free titles available – on a first-come first-served basis of course! So drop into one of these fine establishment this Saturday and find out what’s happening in the Irish comic book scene.