Does Free Comic Book Day Help Retailers? (freecomicbookday.com) 47
An anonymous reader writes:
Today comic book stores around the world celebrate "Free Comic Book Day," offering free comic books to anyone who pays them a visit. Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the event is offering 50 free titles this year, including Doctor Who, Serenity, The Simpsons, Love and Rockets, and a brand new comic from Stan Lee. Marvel is giving away both an Avengers/Civil War comic and a separate one featuring Captain America, and there's also comics with Grumpy Cat, The Tick, and even a Street fighter V comic.
But the Los Angeles Times notes there's different opinions about whether the event creates repeat business (though one comic shop owner told them "as far as that one day goes, it's a great day.") Another store owner says he even stopped participating temporarily because "It's just the hyenas looking for free stuff," while a third described it instead as a way to give back to the community of comic book readers.
But the Los Angeles Times notes there's different opinions about whether the event creates repeat business (though one comic shop owner told them "as far as that one day goes, it's a great day.") Another store owner says he even stopped participating temporarily because "It's just the hyenas looking for free stuff," while a third described it instead as a way to give back to the community of comic book readers.
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Look. Trolling is an art.
This is not art.
Art would have been calling it Cowic Book Day.
Never heard of it before (Score:1)
and I live in a small town, so I would have to travel an hour or three to get to the nearest comic book store
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Unfortunately it doesn't take you three hours to post on slashdot. :(
Betteridge says... (Score:2)
No.
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Just getting people in the door once is a tried and true strategy for businesses. The other day I got my vehicle's state emission tests done at a local gas station that's a lot closer than the one I used to go to (thanks Google!). They gave me a free car with it, and I may go back there every once in a while to get my car washed now, as I discovered the basic wash is only three bucks. I'm certain I never would have discovered or used that place otherwise.
Online retailers or services use the same principl
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The other day I got my vehicle's state emission tests done at a local gas station that's a lot closer than the one I used to go to (thanks Google!). They gave me a free car with it, and I may go back there every once in a while to get my car washed now
stealing a car from them and then going back to the same place to have them wash it? bold move, sir.
Ladies, if you're looking for husband material, (Score:4, Funny)
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lol!
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Hey, I took my 12 year old to two comic shops today, at both there were a surprising number of females - and they were of equal life-mate quality, especially the ones in costume.
Yes 100% Yes (Score:5, Interesting)
Anything that promotes literacy will help comic book sales. I'm taking my 3 kids and hitting at least one shop. Reading is the most important thing anyone can learn to help them with the rest of their lives. Getting them early is important.
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Re:Yes 100% Yes (Score:4, Funny)
Reading is the most important thing anyone can learn to help them with the rest of their lives.
Understanding human relationships is also important. Everything I know about women, I learned from reading about Archie's problems with Betty and Veronica.
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Comic books aren't the best material for building reading skills. They're mostly composed of short two-to-three sentence snippets of dialogue, and children should be comfortable reading that sort of thing by the third grade. The next step is learning to read sentences with several dependent clauses, the kind that can stretch on for three or four lines, and you won't find those in comic books because they are simply too long to fit into speech bubbles. I'm not saying comics don't have meaningful and powerful
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Yay for Asterix! Leave that one where the kids can get to it.
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Neither party should need to be kissing the other's ass literally or metaphorically for general manners to apply. Refer to the title of this comment thread for details.
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thank you come again
Superhero Comics != Comics (Score:2)
It bugs the hell out of me that apparently, at least the most outspoken US comic fans, just seem to think of superhero comics whenever they talk abour comics.
A little enlightenment:
Superherocomics are a smaller subgenre of comics in general, and, if I may say so, a rather shallow one at that. Comics encompass a huge superset of superhero comics, the bulk made up of so-called franco-belgian comics, covering a huge variety of genres and target audience demographics. Resulting in the fact that comics are consi
One thing you'll never see in a comic book (Score:2)
A person named Clint.
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A person named Clint.
Do you mean like Clint Barton (a.k.a. Hawkeye, Ronin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_(comics)
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Interesting. How does that look in smudged block case. ..