Merry Free Comic Book Day, comics fans! Yes, the most wonderful time of the year for receiving wonderful free comics is here. FCBD 2018 is jam-packed with a ton of wonderful (and did we mention, free?) books for you to pick up, so here's a selection of what's on offer.

Free Comic Book Day might be five months away, but you can already start preparing for all the free comics you'll be able to read right now. Yesterday, we got the official announcement of the top tier of free books that will be available to celebrate comic book nerd Christmas in May.

Today, May 6, is basically comic book fan Christmas -- because it's Free Comic Book Day, the annual celebration across comic stores the world over for revelling in the comics we love (and get free ones, too). As ever, there are a ton of comics on offer for FCBD this year, so here's our picks for the ones you should look out for.

Free Comic Book Day is already a good deal -- after all, there is no better deal than "free comics". But it's an even better deal when the comics made available for the annual event sound absolutely incredible, and 2017's output is shaping up to be very interesting. Three words, you guys: Mirror. Universe. Picard.

Samplers and anthology specials have become a staple of Free Comic Book Day's bountiful offerings, but that might change next year. According to materials acquired by Bleeding Cool, the organisation behind the event is now suggesting that publishers shy away from offering anthologies beginning in 2017.