Coming up in about a month is Free comic Book Day, a spring
holiday that's not quite made its way to the upper echelons like
Passover and Easter. It offers the opportunity for struggling
comic book publishers (that would be... uh... all of them, at
this point) to get together with struggling comic shops and hand
out free, specially-printed comic books to customers, thus
ensuring another year of preaching to the choir. However, in
2003, independent publisher Second 2 Some tried to get non-choir
members interested by publishing this handy-dandy guide to
"getting ANYONE to read comic books!!!" Interrobang!!!  Unforch,
there's a little flaw in this plan: mainly, that this guide has
a worse pictures-to-words ratio than Medieval illuminated
manuscripts, and is about as easy to read. Since this is
supposed to be selling us on comic books, maybe filling the
pages with walls of text might not be the best idea. It's true,
though, this ain't no James Michener... he usually writes in
easy-to-follow paragraph form, rather