Today is Free Comic Book Day and many local comic book stores around the country are participating. While we are not part of this event, we would like to mention our support of such stores. Recently, there were events celebrating independent record and book stores. We were unable to show our support for the former in time and we were unable to participate in the latter because we are not part of a retailer association. However, it would be a shame if we didn't promote one of the earliest such events and the local store involved. Pikeville's comic book store is Page 3 Game Zone , which we have had a long standing relationship with. We have frequently sent customers over to them when they needed products and services that they were more suited to and we couldn't really provide. [Author's aside: I have been reading comic books since I was four years old, and I am fortunate enough to still have at least parts of some of them even after forty years and two floods. I mostly started our on Disney reprints of Carl Barks duck stories which were still fairly recent at the time. I didn't transition to super-heroes until I was seven or eight. I still get five to seven most weeks.] Since not everyone can be here, I suggest you check out your own local stores. There are a wide selection of titles available, and many are acceptable to all age groups. Many stores will allow to get more than one of these special issues, and some will even have older comics for free that are not part of this promotion. We cannot stress enough how special this event can be. Just make sure to look over some of the comics if you have very young readers as some of the titles involved are definitely not for children.
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