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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 2h

it's usually gone by sunrise. not always though qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Ghosts! Are they real? Science says no, but the headless bride who walks through walls in my house -

T-Rex: - as if following a floor plan that was lost in a past renovation -

T-Rex: - says yes!
Dromiceiomimus: How does she say yes without a head?
T-Rex: Sign language.
Dromiceiomimus: Ah.

Utahraptor: You know sign language?
T-Rex: Learnt it for the bride.

Utahraptor: Last question: how does she see YOUR signs without a head?
T-Rex: She doesn't, but I trace letters into her palm.
Utahraptor: Okay. Well. I'd love to meet her, if that's okay.

Narrator: THUS:
Off panel: She's nice, but you must get tired of her excusing herself to use the bathroom, then walking through walls to get to it, but that's your kitchen now and then there's ghost pee in the kitchen.
T-Rex: ...Yeah.
T-Rex: *sigh*

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Ryan North Updates @ryannorthupdates.bsky.social · 23h

Back @oni-press.bsky.social's @kickstarter.com campaign for the ADVENTURE TIME DELUXE COMICS LIBRARY! These six oversized hardcovers contain @ryannorth.ca's entire 35-issue run on ADVENTURE TIME among countless other stories from the Land of Ooo: www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni...

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 17h

WORDS ADDED TO SPELL-CHECK TODAY: -Blastaar -Odinson -Post-It -lemmata -limerace -Skrullos -wishlist -mayhaps -youch -indocible

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 29/09/2026

if you believe in yourself you can work within the existing constraints imposed upon you to, in some cases, accomplish a subset of your dreams www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Off panel: If you believe in yourself, you can do anything!
T-Rex: ...I can?

T-Rex: I CAN?!?

T-Rex: Okay Dromiceiomimus, I believe in myself, utterly and completely, and what I want to do with that belief is get boats for hands so I can walk around and say "wow, these boats sure are handy".
T-Rex: HAND-y, Dromiceiomimus.
Dromiceiomimus: I got it, yeah. I guess we COULD make some boat-shaped gloves that -
T-Rex: NO! They have to be REAL.

Utahraptor: You want to cut off your hands and replace them with ACTUAL full-sized boats?
T-Rex: I believe in myself!

T-Rex: BUT: they still have to work as hands too. They must be actual boats that are also flesh and allow me sensation.
Utahraptor: How about this: if you believe in yourself, you can do SOME things, not all things. Perhaps not even MOST things.

Off panel: But you can do approximately as many things - and perhaps even slightly more - than you could if you DIDN'T believe in yourself.
T-Rex: Okay you know what that's actually WAY more reasonable

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026

came across this classic ASW and i gotta say: STILL GREAT www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id...

I figured out how to be happy / but I can't tell you. / You not knowing is a big part of it.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026

Look what I got at the grocery store where it was on extreme clearance for some reason

Me holding a thing of KD RAMEN. there's a picture of ramen but it's Kraft Dinner orange. And cheese sauce appears to be spilling over the edge of the bowl

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Ryan North Updates @ryannorthupdates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When Doctor Doom becomes Sorcerer Supreme, Earth is forever changed. Will it have been for the better? @ryannorth.ca and R.B. Silva headline the nine main issues of the ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM OMNIBUS, containing 66 stories over 1500+ pages. Pre-order either of these two covers at your store TODAY!

One World Under Doom Omnibus
Cover by Ben Harvey
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 28/09/2026

IN THE BIBLE HE'S MOSTLY JUST A PLACE AND NOT A GUY BUT REST ASSURED THERE IS IN FACT A DUDE NAMED "JORDAN" JUST OFF-SCREEN IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT SCENES THAT I DIDN'T WRITE ABOUT / HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING BUT HE DOES NOD HIS HEAD REAL VIGOROUSLY AT ALL THE BEST PARTS www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: The following is my list of Country Names That Could Possibly Be People's Names Too!

T-Rex: #1: Chad!

T-Rex: This is an easy first place, because I knew a Chad once.
Dromiceiomimus: I knew a Chad too, and he wasn't even FROM Chad!
T-Rex: That makes him a true Chad, because otherwise he might've just been trying to rep his country.

T-Rex: #2: Mali. I don't know a Mali, but if I met someone who said "hey my name is Mali" I'd probably say "oh cool!"
Utahraptor: Huh!

Utahraptor: I'd probably say "Sorry, Molly?" and she'd say "No, Mali" and I'd say "Oh okay."
T-Rex: Either way, a solid contender! #3 is Kazakhstan, because I would like to know a guy named Kazakhstan.
T-Rex: "Kaz" for short.

God: SORRY DID YOU JUST RATE KAZAKHSTAN AS A NAME ABOVE JORDAN OR GEORGIA BOTH OF WHICH ARE ACTUAL IN-USE NAMES
T-Rex: ...Maybe?
God: JORDAN EVEN APPEARS IN MY FIRST BOOK THE BIBLE AND THERE'S A SEQUEL TOO BUT JORDAN'S BARELY IN IT
God: WOW

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AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 27/09/2026

🎙️ AIPT Comics Podcast Ep. 397! @ryannorth.ca joins us to talk DOOMQUEST, his jump to DC with THE FLASH, Fantastic Four, superhero horror, continuity, and the challenge of giving ridiculously powerful heroes problems they can’t simply punch away. 🎧 Listen now on all podcast platforms!

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 25/09/2026

I like how this suggests there's TWO death-themed strips. Because there were! I didn't mean it that way it just happened but I promise the patreon isn't all death ALL the time!!

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 25/09/2026

you can't spell "crisis" without misspelling "cry" www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Ah yes, the perfect activity for a lazy afternoon: take the demographic data for people born when and where I was...

T-Rex: ...and use it to calculate my life expectancy!

Narrator: BUT THEN:
T-Rex: Wait wait wait. It says here... I'm more than HALFWAY through my life ALREADY?
Dromiceiomimus: I mean, in all likelihood - yes, absolutely. T-Rex, we're all not gonna be around FOREVER.
T-Rex: But - but - I DIDN'T KNOW! Nobody told me there was more behind than ahead now!!

Utahraptor: What would you have done if you'd known?
T-Rex: I dunno, have a party? Have a CRISIS? BOTH??

T-Rex: Man, I had SUCH PLANS for my midlife crisis too. I was gonna buy a motorcycle, then marry the motorcycle, and then try to convince my ex-spouse from before the motorcycle to be in a poly relationship with the motorcycle.
Utahraptor: It's never too late!

T-Rex: It IS: I missed the middle of my life, so now any crisis I have must be a POST-MIDLIFE crisis!
Off panel: I've never heard of those.
T-Rex: NOBODY HAS, because they're not a thing!!
T-Rex: I MISSED OUT ON MY ONE CHANCE TO HAVE A SOCIALLY-ACCEPTABLE CRISIS!!

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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PsychoDuck @psychoduck21.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was wondering how you were going to announce your candidacy for mayor

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 23/09/2026

SECRETS OF DINOSAUR COMICS: there's time between the panels. this is also a secret of all comics in general, but you heard it here first www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Am I fun?
God: ABSOLUTELY

T-Rex: Am I a cool guy to hang out with?
God: FOR SURE

T-Rex: Am I versatile?
God: ...
Dromiceiomimus: ...
T-Rex: Wait, what the hell, am I somehow - NOT versatile??

Utahraptor: Versatile guys do a lot of different things well! You've uh...
Utahraptor: ...you've kinda specialized in stomping?

T-Rex: I HAVE NOT! I mean, I just stomped, obviously. But I do other things!
Utahraptor: Sure but - dude, you stomp EVERY SINGLE WEEKDAY! And usually about three or so of those days are worthy of being recorded in some way each week.
T-Rex: Well from now on: NO MORE STOMPING.

Off panel: ...I just saw you stomp on three more people and one extremely-explosive biplane in the space between you saying "NO MORE STOMPING" and now.
T-Rex: But!
T-Rex: Nobody ELSE did, sooooo

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Starred-review for Kate Beaton and Sydney Smith's Rebecca "a lovely reflection on grief and loss." Read the full review here: bit.ly/4xBynQt

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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Batman: TAS implies the existence of Batman: Any%.

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

REBECCA - written by me, illustrated by Sydney Smith. It comes out tomorrow. I am very proud of this book, and greatly indebted to Sydney, who took a personal story and made it timeless. I hope you like it.

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AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 18/09/2026

DC Preview: The Flash #37 - Wally West is now the savior of three cities, depending on how you count: Central, Keystone, and Metropolis. And for once, it’s going great! @gavinguidry.bsky.social @ryannorth.ca #comicsky Read it here:

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DC Preview: The Flash #37

MORE FLASHES OF INSIGHT!

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 18/09/2026

when you think about it, writers are really mean to people who, on top of everything else, don't even EXIST yet www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Sherlock Holmes, who was the world's greatest detective but complete rubbish at baking, sighed.

T-Rex: His latest cake was, once again, complete rubbish!

T-Rex: He was BEYOND frustrated. He'd TRIED using his detective skills to deduce why his cakes sucked so bad, but even so, they only ever told him why THIS cake sucked (he accidentally used a cup of baking soda instead of a teaspoon) and not why the NEXT cake would suck.
Dromiceiomimus: They always sucked for a completely new reason?
T-Rex: They ALWAYS sucked for a completely NEW reason!!

Utahraptor: Surely at some point he'd run out of new ways to ruin cakes?
T-Rex: You'd think!

T-Rex: "But sadly there are SO MANY WAYS to ruin a cake," Sherlock sighed, as he put his batter into the oven on the top rack instead of the centre one, which would, 40 minutes later, burn the cake's top while leaving the bottom underdone.
Utahraptor: Sherlock, no!!
T-Rex: He can't hear you! He's fictional!!

T-Rex: And he's having the WORST DAY of his FICTIONAL LIFE - and to make matters EVEN WORSE, the WHOLE WORLD is going to hear about it, because I'm writing it down and publishing it all!!
Off panel: Nooooooo

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Matt McGrath @stupidmatt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gee THANKS @ryannorth.ca I guffawed on the TTC today cuz of this joke and everyone looked at me weird

Comic panel from Flash 34. A sign reads: Gorilla City. Keep out. No lesser sapiens allowed. Homo Sapiens, this means you!

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this thread does not go where you think

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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centralcomics.bsky.social @centralcomics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

O 37.º Amadora BD está a chegar! De 15 a 25 de outubro, a Amadora recebe mais uma edição, que já revelou os primeiros autores convidados, incluindo Ryan North, Iban Coello, Guy Delisle, Peter Van Dongen, Craig Thompson, André Carrilho e muitos outros www.centralcomics.com/37-o-amadora...

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37.º Amadora BD revela primeiros autores convidados para a edição de 2026

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP A+ work here, publishing this piece in NYT with (A) the headline as a Cat-style GIF, and (B) a link to (an archived version of) Spinning 3D Pornhub Comments

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 16/09/2026

Hey look, I've now got an official account for promotional stuff! It's all comics, all the time, so you can follow it to get the latest. I will sometimes RT stuff here too, but this is where all the REAL info is, without all the "I just ate 11 hot dogs for $11" distractions!!

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 16/09/2026

i will be DAMNED if i lose to a CONCEPT www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Today's job: achieve inner peace. And the clock is ticking: there's no time to waste!
T-Rex: It's OVERDUE, actually.

T-Rex: Cards on the table, I needed to have inner peace DAYS ago and I most DEFINITELY need it RIGHT NOW!!

Dromiceiomimus: Buddy - I think if you want to be at peace you must either solve what's troubling you or learn to accept it, so that you can simply exist without worry.
T-Rex: Right. Okay. I can do this.
T-Rex: I will simply achieve peace by making peace with everything that's preventing me from achieving peace! EASY!

Narrator: LATER:
Utahraptor: So - how's achieving enlightenment going?
T-Rex: NOT GREAT!

T-Rex: I'm beginning to suspect that it's a task that may take my WHOLE LIFETIME to complete, or - and this is even WORSE - one of those BALONEY tasks that can NEVER be completed because it turns out the attempt, the JOURNEY, is more important than the destination!!
Utahraptor: Oh god, I hate those tasks.

T-Rex: EVERYONE DOES!! The purpose of journeys is to REACH DESTINATIONS! Dying in the middle of an one is just a LOSING to a JOURNEY, and a journey is an INANIMATE CONCEPT that doesn't even know you're alive!
T-Rex: ARGH!! I WON'T LIE, folks! I am really QUITE FAR from INNER PEACE RIGHT NOW!!

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 16/09/2026

I'm at a Jays game on loonie hot dog night and ive so far consumed $11 worth of hot dogs

They only sell them in groups of 4 max so you have to keep going back

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Remember when twitter used to do custom emojis when a new show would drop? Anyway, best I can give you are regular axes and some gold crowns: 🪓🪓🪓🪓👑👑👑👑

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TopatoCo @topa.to · 15/09/2026

BRB just going to the laundromat with my big cartoonish bag that is definitely filled with real money and NOT 90 pairs of mismatched socks 👍 💰 Topa.to/collections/ryan-north/products/qw-moneybag | @ryannorth.ca 🦖

A graphic of a drawstring laundry bag but with a big U.S. American dollar sign on it, made to look like a bag a cartoon robber would carry. There is a photo of a laundromat in the background and a pile of one dollar bills.

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just putting this out in the universe, but my birthday is coming up (September 29th) so if any of you wonderful artists felt inclined to draw fanart for any of my books, that would be an incredible birthday gift! 🥰

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

HAPPY GOLDEN AXE WEEK! All episodes drop on P+ on Wednesday.

Key art image for the animated show Golden Axe featuring various fantastical characters - airs 9/16 on paramount plussss

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 14/09/2026

though he's known today for them many new words he invented in the course of his writing, shakespeare's career as a sandwich innovator is sadly less well-documented qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: People are always like "ooooh boo hoo, you can't have a story without conflict, it doesn't work, it's impossible, boo hoo hoo."

T-Rex: BALONEY!!

T-Rex: To them I say: what about a story about some guy enjoying the best sandwich of his life?
Dromiceiomimus: That doesn't sound THAT interesting.
T-Rex: Ah, but you didn't let me finish: at the end of the story, it includes a surprise recipe for that sandwich, WITH PHOTOS. It's not fictional! THE BEST SANDWICH OF THAT GUY'S LIFE IS REAL!!
Dromiceiomimus: Holy CRAP.

T-Rex: See? DONE.
Utahraptor: Ah, not so fast!

Utahraptor: You've still got conflict: man vs. sandwich expectations (he defeats them), man vs. disappointments in past sandwiches (he defeats them), man vs. his surprise of how good a sandwich can be (the surprise defeats him, BUT: the man is glad to be subsumed in, AND BY, sandwich paradise).

T-Rex: ...Frig, I forgot about the classic "Man Vs. His Surprise Of How Good A Sandwich Can Be" form of conflict in narrative.
Off panel: It features heavily in the original draft of Hamlet!
T-Rex: I know, I know!
T-Rex: I don't know how I forgot!!

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 13/09/2026

Just woke up from a dream where I ordered a rum and coke at a bar and they asked what kind of ice I wanted, then showed me a menu with 60 different kinds of ice. Most were different shapes but some had flavours. I chose mint and my drink became mintier over time. Anyway good morning

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 12/09/2026

Hey everyone, how do we feel about portents and omens? They're not real, right? Like they can be safely ignored, even hubristically scoffed at and mocked, yeah?

Graffiti and some recently laid sidewalk that reads RIP RYAN

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 11/09/2026

(said through a mouthful of chips) the word "hero" gets thrown around a lot these days but in this case it must apply www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Why can't we all just GET ALONG?

T-Rex: Wait!
T-Rex: Why CAN'T we all just get along??

Dromiceiomimus: Getting along requires we reach consensus on the best way forward.
T-Rex: Why can't we all just REACH CONSENSUS?
Dromiceiomimus: Disagreements prevent us from reaching consensus.
T-Rex: Why can't we all just AVOID DISAGREEMENTS?

Utahraptor: Because reasonable people may reasonably disagree!
T-Rex: How come?

Utahraptor: Because we don't have an absolute and complete understanding of the universe, the future, and ourselves.
T-Rex: Well - why CAN'T we all just understand ourselves?
Utahraptor: Lead the way, T-Rex! Be the change!!

Narrator: LATER:
T-Rex: And THAT'S how come I ate chips in bed all day.
Off panel: You wanted to and didn't understand why, but knew if you COULD figure that out, it might contribute to world peace?
T-Rex: Yep!!

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope this Ishmael finds you whale

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