“OM OO DAY.”

Well, let’s get this out of the way first. Last year’s Free Comic Book Day event was far and away our most financially successful yet at my shop (that shop being, of course, Sterling Silver Comics in lovely Camarillo, CA). In fact, the numbers were so good, I didn’t really have the expectation that we’d do better this year. And yet, we did. Now FCBD ’26 is our most financially successful event yet. Which of course is going to give me performance anxiety next year as I can’t imagine surpassing that new total. Money isn’t the point, of course, but as a small business owner in a retail niche not necessarily known for swimming in cash, it’s nice to have it come in. But it is one measure of gauging response to the event itself, short of doing a head count tally throughout the day, and geez louise we’ve got enough to do on Free Comic Book Day. Speaking of which, it was very busy that day. As most of you know, ever since COVID descended upon the land, I moved the giveaways to outside the…