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Free Comic Day!
turkeywrap writes "Today is Free Comic Day! Go to your local comic store, pick up some free comics, and support the comic industry. Check and see if there are any special signings or events at a store near you." Ack! I'm in Warren at Penguicon this weekend, and nowhere near my precious comic store! I guess I'll have to pay for my comics ;)
They told me to never come back to the store again.
pick up some free comics, and support the comic industry 1. Give away free comics 2. ?? 3. Profit!
This post is free (as in cheese in a mousetrap).
And tomorrow it's free jewlery day! Just show up at your local jewelery store with a gun! :)
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
"Er, excuse me. No banging your head on the display case please, it contains a very rare Mary Worth in which she has advised a friend to commit suicide. Thank you." - The Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons
Support industry by taking free stuff with you. And you thought, business is hard to understand...
It would be a Zionist conspiracy to distract the world from their crimes against humanity in Palestine. That, or it would be a unilateralist act that flies in the face of "international law." But I can see it now...
The Security Council would push for a role for UN "Peacekeepers" to hand out the comics, the General Assembly will elect to put a price tag of $1.50 on the free comics (to cover the administrative overhead, of course), and comic book publishers will have to spend years in negotiations with various NGOs to hammer out the details.
After agreeing to five or six different documents all titled "Roadmap to Free Comics," the first few issues would be distributed around 2025. Aside from a few compilations of Bazooka bubble gum wrappers and reprints of Radio Shack's "Whiz Kids," the comics include such insightful ("inciteful?") titles as "Fidel has Feelings Too" and "Triumphs of the Ba'ath Party." The comics themselves are thicker than one would expect because each speech bubble contains the same text in six different languages, with the order of the languages rotated every frame so that no one language is seen as superior to another. The credits at the beginning of each comic contain around 1500 names each, to ensure that nobody involved in the UN effort is left out. In support of UN efforts to combat illiteracy, each illiterate person would receive two comics instead of just one.
After the diplomatic fiasco in which several thousand "Peacekeepers" were killed and/or tortured while trying to carry out their humanitarian comic book efforts, someone will point out that distributing all this paper violates certain environmental agreements. After an additional two or three years of debate, it is decided to pass the blame and the clean-up costs to those truly responsible the Comic Holocaust (as it will by then be referred to): the comic book publishers. After his high-profile capture, Stan Lee awaits trial at The Hague, while France and several other EU supporters introduce a draft it likes to call "The Comprehensive Comic Book Test Ban Treaty."