If no one’s said it before, let me be the first: OH MY GOD WAS THIS WEEKEND OVER THE TOP.
We had Iron Man released to the masses, Free Comic Book Day celebrated (which tend to come with a sale, a signing or at least a balloon) and then, just to top things off, Metro hosted the Magic the Gathering Shadowmoor release tournament. It was a madhouse I tells ya, A MADHOUSE!
But we survived. My sign remarkably worked wonders, people’s enthusiasm was high and I can say with a head held high that Iron Man is the best superhero movie I have ever seen. Free Comic Book Day once again surprised us all at how incredibly popular it was, Nathan Kane is a complete and utter sweetheart and Bob Gale proudly showed me a few panels of a Thor at a malt shop (oh, Essential volumes, is there anything you can’t do?). The tournament rounded us out at a whopping 36 players, and on Monday, I slept.
Bringing us to Tuesday.
Today we go in and see if all this promotion, good feeling and spectacular success has any long term payoff. I’m not even close to thinking that everyone who picked up a healthy stack of free comics is going to come back and set up a pull subscription, but it’d be nice to see some people wander in and ask about All Star Superman. Maybe someone who’s seen the Iron Man movie ask us what’s the next best thing to it in print?
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What would you recommend for someone coming in from Iron Man wanting to read some comics?