Why This Year’s FCBD Pick Feels Off to Some Comic Fans

While Diamond Distribution is largely out of business now, FCBD is still going, and Restart reports this year’s occasion will see comics based on the Lego Batman game:

For Free Comic Book Day in 2026, fans can collect a free comic book tie-in for the upcoming video game Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, which tells a standalone story inspired by the game. The comic is called The Lego Batman Returns, and it will follow Lego Batman after he returns to Gotham City after some time away.

While physical copies of The Lego Batman Returns comic will be available for free at participating comic stores for Free Comic Book Day, a digital version will also launch for free on the DC Universe Infinite app on the same day, May 2.

Unfortunately, this does nothing to repair the mess the flagship Batman titles have fallen into, though it’s interesting that FCBD is still in business, even though it never proved profitable, and Marvel mostly abandoned it for the sake of a rival project.

I played with Lego toys in my youth, and I think they were one of the best things produced in Denmark decades before, but it’s worth noting that, much like several other businesses in the past decade, they too decided to sour their image by going woke. Based on that, who knows if it’s a good idea to give even their Lego Batman toys – and comics – a chance at this point if they haven’t done enough to mend their image as a children’s franchise?

Originally published here