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Ryan Higgins

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Owner of Comics Conspiracy. Used to be cool. comicsconspiracy.biz

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · Oct 29

Every time "Otisburg" comes up in a conversation, I should reply to this message.

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 8h

Great job Toronto!

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Stats @redsoxstats.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Jankees Lose

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 13h

Free Comic Book Day bought by Universal.

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Free Comic Book Day Acquired

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

"Everything You Knew About Darkhawk Was Wrong… Again"

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 16h

ok I got NIN tickets back to your regularly scheduled work

Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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

Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 17h

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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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 18h

It really sucks aging out of the target demo :/ At least there's still a commitment to reprinting all the old stuff.

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 18h

DC is getting into webtoons and other new formats not to "take away your jobs, but to bring in a new generation of readers," says Jim Lee at #retailersday at #nycc. "This speech is unapologetically optimistic because you don't build 90 years storytelling by being cynical."