ICYMI: Free Comic Book Day no longer a month long celebration and has been postponed to later this year due to corona virus

With the world facing more important problems thanks to the corona virus, the annual comic book event that is "Free Comic Book Day" has been postponed to some time later this year. Announced by Diamond Comics Distributors chairman and founder Steve Geppi as well as reported by Newsarama, the initial move for the event was made to be celebrated for the whole month of May, before being reconsidered and moved "to a date later in the summer".

You can read the full statement from Diamond Comics and the details over at Newsarana,

Marvel reveals their FCBD 2020 offerings in "The Amazing Spider-Man/ Venom" and "X-Men"

Come May, Marvel Comics will unleash two very special Free Comic Book Day offerings that will entice fans of the House of Ideas to head to their participating shops and branches! One is for fans of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and one of his greatest frenemies Venom, while the other features the Children of the Atom themselves, the X-Men!

In "FCBD 2020: X-Men #1" - two stories by the creative teams of Jonathan Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz plus Tom Taylor and artist Iban Coello will define what's coming up next for the "Dawn of X" and the new status quo of mutants!

Finally, Donny Cates and Jed McKay team up with artists Ryan Stegman and Patrick Gleason for some webslinging action in "FCBD 2020: Spider-Man/ Venom #1" - which features samplers and stories that all link to Spidey, Venom, and The Black Cat!

Find out more via Marvel.com and be sure to attend Free Comic Book Day this May 2nd!

DC Comics reveals “Generation Zero” for Free Comic Book Day 2020

The future of the DC Universe’s new timeline will be explored even further when Free Comic Book Day arrives this May, as DC Comics has revealed via Newsarama that a new one-shot called “Generation Zero” will be released on that day to celebrate and promote the hobby of comic book reading.

As the article states, the lead story of the one-shot will be an epilogue to the Wally West starring “Flash Forward” miniseries, in which the time-displaced Flash and speedster will inherit the powers of Doctor Manhattan via the Mobius Chair. What exactly Wally will do with those powers is anyone’s guess - but it looks like the story teases that he’ll be pulling off a “Zero Hour” (DC fans will know what this means), as the cover to the one shot drawn by artist Francis Manapul shows. DC has constantly teased there will be major changes - and this looks like the start of things following the events of DC Rebirth, Heroes In Crisis, and Doomsday Clock.

The “Generation Zero” one-shot with the Flash Forward epilogue and reprinted story from Wonder Woman #750 will be released on Free Comic Book Day on May 2nd.