The snow is piled high where I am, and May seems like a long time away, but the Free Comic Book Day folks are getting into the spirit by posting some free previews (or "prevues," as they spell it, since these are Previews prevues). The selection includes Gilbert Hernandez's Marble Season, a Molly Danger comic by Jamal Igle that will be bundled with a Princeless story by Jeremy Whitley, Atomic Robo, 2000AD, Brian Wood's Star Wars, and more.

As in previous years, the FCBD website is also running a series of creator interviews. These aren't particularly deep; all the creators get the same set of softball questions (actual question, I kid you not: "Tell us why everyone should read comic books?") but some of them, like Fred Van Lente, go beyond "Comics are AWESOME!!!!!" and have a bit of fun with it. Recent interviews worth a glance include Cory Godbey, who is working on an adaptation of Jim Henson's Labyrinth; Emmanuel Guibert and Mark Boutvant on Ariol; and Robert Venditti on X-O Manowar. It's all nakedly promotional, but it's promoting comics after all, and there is some good stuff in there, both in the responses and the art samples.