No, but it's a small price, that is not perceived. It is the only way to be able to go on such a big project and to amortize the expenses made to keep it go ahead, such as buying stock images, tons of paper and ink pens, computer, buying other comics from drivethrucomics to study the anatomy style). So to buy a comic is not only a way to spend money but is also an ethic way to help the people that create comics, and I try to do it investing with the gained money paying to buy other comics or stock images and it helps the comic book market that currently it is not in good shape.Also with 2 comics one can download for free 1 game playable on windows (every comic have one of 2 passwords to download the game)In any case, is possible to download the comics also with points from this link and the points you could get them for free by doing things on deviantart.the part free is visible on deviantart but is only the 20% of the total work about Sylva