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Red Sox Nation Stats @rsnstats.com · 9h

Very sorry to note the passing of 12-year #RedSox Hall of Famer and 2-time All-Star Mike Greenwell at age 62.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 9h

It's me, the single issue voter.

dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 23h

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 9h

Hell. Yes.

Popverse @popversesays.bsky.social · 9h

Announced at NYCC 2025: DC Vertigo to finally let Swamp Thing meet Jesus Christ in new four-part restoration of a cancelled controversial 1989 storyline.

www.thepopverse.com/comics-live-...

DC to finally let Swamp Thing meet Jesus Christ in new four-part restoration of a cancelled controversial 1989 storyline

Rick Veitch's lost issues of Swamp Thing will see print in 2026 as Swamp Thing 1989.

www.thepopverse.com

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 11h

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 11h

More Vertigo Titles:

- Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy by Ram V and Mike Perkins

- A Walking Shadow by Simon Surrier and Aaron Campbell

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 11h

Other Vertigo titles:

- 100 Bullets: The US of Anger by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
- Necretaceous by Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson
- Fanatic by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
- The Crying Dolls by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero O'Connell

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 11h

The cat's out of the bag: DC Vertigo sampler given out at NYCC reveals...

The Nice House by the Sea by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno

Bleeding Hearts by Deniz Camp and Stipan Morian

End of Life by Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh

The Peril of Brutal Dark by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

Great job Toronto!

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Stats @redsoxstats.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Yankees Elimination Day 2025. Sixteen years, 0 championships, despite Brian Cashman annually averaging the second-highest payroll and spending $3.9 billion.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWzO...

Jankees Lose

YouTube video by Crumbite

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

welp if baseball is over, I guess that means it's hockey time

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Free Comic Book Day bought by Universal.

icv2.com/articles/new...

Free Comic Book Day Acquired

By Distributor

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Well, they do say there's always room for one more...

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Woman Has Health Issue, Dies After Going Through Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion

Paramedics found unresponsive woman in her 60s who had just finished riding the Haunted Mansion attraction when they arrived. She later died in the hospital.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

"Everything You Knew About Darkhawk Was Wrong… Again"

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 1d

NYCC '25: Jim Lee's Retailer Day speech - "DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork."

NYCC ’25: Jim Lee’s Retailer Day speech – “DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork.”

Jim Lee delivered a fiery speech about the power of human art and DC's ongoing storytelling in the Retailer's Day keynote speech

www.comicsbeat.com

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

There's still some of us olds keeping the industry alive!

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

ok I got NIN tickets back to your regularly scheduled work

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

sorry can't help you I'm buying NIN tickets

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, hard to know, but we have lots of 20-somethings buying single issues every week. A lot of the guys who grew up buying in the 80s have shifted to omnibus or back issues, they're not the majority buying new comics anymore.

Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 1d

Question: as a business owner, what percentage of your audience do you think came to western direct market comics in the last ten years without a nostalgic connection to the format?

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Look, the vast, vast majority of print western single issue comics are still for "me". I get that. It just feels like we've been down this road so many times where there's an attempt to expand the print western direct comic market, and it just never really works.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Offering a bunch of different styles is fine, as long as one doesn't replace the other. Every industry is shallow but wide these days, no sales are "deep" on anything. I get offering as much variety as possible. But everyone is so overworked and underpaid, it's hard to imagine any will make money.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

McKay has made the jump recently, but they haven't given the wheel to the others yet. They're probably the closest.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

My fear is the same it's been for a long time, a lot of "webtoons" styles tend to lean towards casual, cozy stories, which is antithetical to traditional western superhero comics. If you read Wayne Family Adventures, I don't think you're transitioning over to Batman.

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

It is interesting that most of the big names to break out during the '10s (Snyder, King, Tynion, Hickman, Ewing)...are still the bigger names more than halfway through the '20s.

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