Today was a day comics fans in the States enjoy.
On the first Saturday in May each year, comic book companies give out (well, the store owners actually do pay for them) special books that highlight the products they sell. All this helps attract old and new comic fans to their local specialty shops, and that will hopefully keep the industry surviving and hopefully even growing.
This year, I felt there was a significantly improved level of quality compared to previous years. In the last several years, I felt that the different companies were pushing — well, stuff that sucked, as a friend of mine would say.