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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 13h

That's a really good point.

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 16h

Wow, that's pretty grim, Superboy!

"The 'S' stands for 'nihilism.'"

(From Legion of Super-Heroes #290, August 1982. Written by Paul Levitz. Art by Keith Giffen & Larry Mahlstedt.) #bronzeage #legionofsuperheroes #comicbooks #legionofsuperheroes #greatdarknesssaga #awesomecomics

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 18h

I’d go with an old iPhone. You just don’t put in a SIM card or sign up for service. It works on WiFi like the old iPods.

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 22h

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Rachael Stott NYCC F-12 @rachaelstott.bsky.social · 1d

I predict we're a year away from a tech bro unironically calling an AI girlfriend app 'Stepford'.

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M. T. Anderson @mt-anderson.bsky.social · 1d

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 1d

I'm putting the finishing touches on my October newsletter, in which I reveal the new title for the book previously known as BRIDEKILLER! To be among the first to know, be sure to sign up at barrylyga.com/newsletter! #newsletter #jasperdent #bridekiller #writing

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Sterling Gates @sterlinggates.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, if anyone is looking for some freelance comic stories to be written, hit me up.

I'm good for it.

Promise.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 2d

The more powerful he is, the less interesting Darkseid is.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Marissa Louise @marissadraws.bsky.social · 3d

I have one:

Social media is a bizarre mix of advertising and journaling.

I think it's been bad for creator's mental health that much of the advertising has been offloaded onto them to do through social media.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

Fellow comic nerds! Anyone have a preference between Neon Ichiban and Globalcomix? I'm trying to decide which one to throw my comic book money at. Looks like neither one supports subscriptions, but I'm wondering if there are any features that incline y'all toward one or the other. Thanks!

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

Mmm… Nerds…

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

God, I hate these people.

All she had to do was nothing. Just say NOTHING. And she couldn't do that.

Shut the fuck up, you popcorn-less troll.

Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 3d

Jovial CVS lady, to people in line: “hey, whose here for a vaccine? I’ve got bags of popcorn for people getting vaccines!”

Woman snorts derisively — “You’d have to give me a lot more than that!”’

Vaccine lady: “how about 2 bags of popcorn?” 😀

Woman: “NOT FOR A MILLION DOLLARS!” 👹

dang lady ok!

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Jim Di Bartolo @jimdibartolo.bsky.social · 13d

F*CK BILLIONAIRES (my 300 pg FULL COLOR graphic novel) is fully drawn & I’m waist deep in coloring it now. PREORDERS are still open! In the meantime, here’s Mike from @humanistreport.bsky.social making a few cameo appearances throughout the book.
Preorder link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/f-c...

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

For the weekend crowd…

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 6d

Hey, do you have an e-reader? Are you looking for a way to show me how much you love me? I've got news for you!

The I HUNT KILLERS ebook is on sale this month! For a mere $1.99, you can delight to the horrors and the bloodshed from the comfort of your own screen!

Here's a link. More in next skeet!

I Hunt Killers

It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field. Except for the body. Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer, some might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, a...

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 6d

Hey, do you have an e-reader? Are you looking for a way to show me how much you love me? I've got news for you!

The I HUNT KILLERS ebook is on sale this month! For a mere $1.99, you can delight to the horrors and the bloodshed from the comfort of your own screen!

Here's a link. More in next skeet!

I Hunt Killers

It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field. Except for the body. Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer, some might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, a...

www.amazon.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago-area folks. Did you know there is a dedicated website for banned books events in and around the city? It's chicagobannedbooks.org and right now, it redirects to FB...but it will have its own content soon.

Here's what events are on tap for next week: www.facebook.com/events/17104...

Chicago-area Banned Books Week

Event by Chicago Banned Books Week on Sunday, October 5 2025

www.facebook.com

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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 5d

A sweaty, panicky, middle-aged, male Steve Ditko character says, "I don't care about the REST of the human race! THEY'RE not important! But I'm too RICH to die!" From an early-60s pre-Marvel short story.

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 4d

I've been planning on building a cool custom calendar for my daughter that uses Taylor Swift lyrics for the days of the week. But she never uses the word "Thursday" in any of her songs!

Just checked the new album.

STILL no Thursday!!!

WHY DO YOU HATE THOR, MS. SWIFT?????

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 5d

Bingo.

For real, take a million bucks from the advance of the next dumb-ass celeb memoir you're going to waste money on. Break it up into 20 parcels of $50k.

Let your marketing people GO WILD on 30 books. No oversight. Let them try crazy shit to see what works and what doesn't.

TAKE A RISK.

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 5d

Authors and a social algorithm you don’t own are not a replacement for an actual marketing plan

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 5d

Ohhhh... I know what book this is.

And yeah, the author is...well, "unhinged" is perhaps putting it kindly.

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 5d

I interrupt the horrors to tell you about the most unhinged book I've read in years. Not going to state the title as the author is on here + I wish her nothing but the best; this is one of those situations where the publisher is somewhat at fault for not saying "you know what, let's take a beat"

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 5d

(Uh… Superboy. I don’t know who Siperboy is — I missed that issue of Who’s Who.)

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 5d

If only all of life’s problems could be solved by the simple expedient of punching one’s foes into the sun…

(From Siperboy #227, May 1977. Story by @gerryconway.bsky.social Art by Joe Staton and Jack Abel.)

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