While you're hitting your local comic book store today for Free Comic Book Day, just remember: you can download a FREE DIGITAL EDITION of each of our magazines, any day, at http://www.twomorrows.com.

Just go to the "Free Stuff" Category in the top left corner of our home page, or click this link to find all the goodies that await you every day, including our full catalog and BrickJournal (our LEGO magazine), absolutely FREE:

http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_pa ... &cPath=108

Then, head to your local comics shop, and ask them to carry all your favorite TwoMorrows mags on a regular basis if they don't already.

And don't forget; when you order the print edition from TwoMorrows (at 15% off or greater), you ALWAYS get the Digital Edition FREE!

Madhouse here at my shop. I'm waiting in a line around the block just to get in.

Who's going to their shop?

Also --

I had the kids today. And my son was pukey all day.

I had to work a double and didn't have enough time to make it to my LCS today

"work a double" = euphemism

Just go tomorrow and see if they have any leftovers. I bet they'd hook you up.

it gets funnier every time, Steve

they probably would. especially since I'm their favorite sandwich delivery person.

I sense sarcasm.

It's hard to be sure though since it wasn't posted twice.

Because there’s a few dirty little secrets behind FCBD that we usually don’t talk about in polite company. The primary one is that, despite being a wonderful showcase of comic book stores and comic books in general, FCBD is a pretty terrible event in terms of generating new long-term customers on specific books. There is not, that I’ve ever been able to determine, any kind of direct correlation between titles given away on FCBD, and future sales of that title. Looking at the overall sales charts, the market would certainly seem to agree as well. The real example in my individual store was "Atomic Robo," which is a wonderfully fun and entertaining comic. It is also one that never has sold well for Comix Experience -- in fact, we’ve not been able to sell more than one single rack copy of the periodical release since at least 2007’s original series. We happily passed out hundreds of FCBD "Atomic Robo" in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. But I decided to stop in 2012 -- we still weren’t selling more than that one single rack copy. All of those giveaway comics? Didn’t move the sales needle one single inch.

It isn’t just me, either, in March of 2008 (just before the first FCBD book) "Atomic Robo" #6 (of 6) sold 3672 copies. In December 2011, "Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X" #4 sold 3666 copies. No apparent movement in the market after four solid years of giving this title away on one of the biggest days of a store’s year.

And that’s for a good comic book.