Darwination

I think it's pretty cool - a neat analogue to a later Pines' pub. Swipe?

Agreed and one of the best robot comic covers 

I think it's pretty cool - a neat analogue to a later Pines' pub. Swipe?

Print is definitely not dead. I work for a graphics mailing house and we have high demand for postcard mailings, brochures, school alumni mailings, medical notifications, checks etc. A lot of our pieces include QR codes so people can scan for further information, but there is still a need for a tangible, (sometimes legal) document to be printed. There are still a lot of us that like to hold a comic book and flip through the pages. Digital is no comparison.

I think it's pretty cool - a neat analogue to a later Pines' pub. Swipe?

Not to sure about being classic but it is scarce and written story by creator of Zorro early robot cover
 

 
 

I Satan Take Thee Sin-Child makes it classic so slap a label on it to make it so 

Yep, see the above posters mention of Goodwill.  It's the online booksellers like goodwill that can ship a used copy of 95% of modern books to your house for five bucks that are the biggest threat to the traditional bookseller.  It's the fact that the books are given away or bought en masse that makes this possible.  Boutique booksellers and local established booksellers can compete to some extent (and I spend some of my book dollars here).  On the bottom side of the market there are the giant second-hand stores (not corporate) that manage to sell books for a dollar or two in person that seem to do pretty well.

Redheads are trouble

Yep, huge cultural shifts in media and the way we read have been underway for decades now.  The newspaper, magazine, and book industries have all been decimated in the number of jobs available, and the latest trend is even AI writers.  It's been horrible for the quality of journalism but likely very good for the environment.  Trees are a renewable resource, but all the energy put into the printing and distribution process is not so much.  Graphic design isn't dead, but the demand isn't the same, and, strike me down for saying this, but web design just doesn't strike me like design for print.
I read both in paper and in digital and find benefits for both.  Paper means more focus - there's not some incoming email or other window to nab your attention away from what you're reading.   Digital means I can take an entire library with me anywhere I go, can instantly look up reference materials when questions arise, and I can read in the dark without disturbing the mrs.  Still, I do a majority of my reading in paper - it's just more enjoyable and easy on the eyes, and when I'm reading digital I prefer a nice scan of the original book to epubs, pdfs, or digital editions that look like modern reprints instead of the original printing.
Regarding comics, digital has put a big dent in the number of LCS already, and that trend will continue.  Most comic shops have long since diversified into plastic figures, playing cards, and other pop culture memorabilia.  If they haven't, they better be pretty damn good at the other thing.   I love being able to pull up (almost) any comic in seconds, and I imagine most people that like the blue boxes appreciate actually having a way to read some of the rarities they've locked away.  Fwiw, the comics industry and the floppy tradition is pretty strong.  Compared to other periodicals, comics are doing very well staying "in print."

Redheads are trouble

Redheads are trouble

Nice cover!

And FINALLY my LB Cole Captain Aero run is complete!

Print has been declared dead from pretty much the moment that personal computers saw widespread use. Heck, Egon Spengler declared exactly that in the 1984 Ghostbusters film; the franchise often depicts Ray as the owner of an occult bookstore, but onsceen, we see him consulting a digital copy of Tobin's Spirit Guide.
Comic books are to some extent resilient to the shift to all-digital text consumption because there's a case to be made that comic book reading has an ergodic component. That is, that the act and process of reading a real comic book is part of the product itself. Ergodic literature digitizes poorly. I'm not sure if one of my favorite book books, House of Leaves, has a Kindle edition, but I'm absolutely certain that one would suck. Reading the book is part of the book.
Obviously, all of that doesn't mean that brick and mortar booksellers are necessarily in a great place. Much of that has to do with the way that Amazon rose to dominance in the industry, and how they stay there. Bog standard corporate shenanigans (aka the "merge, mismanage, and self-destruct cycle") also claimed the life of several of the small-to-medium physical retailers over the years (all the way up to and including Borders). Meanwhile, local comic book shops do face competition from the large online comic store / shippers (although not to the same extent that Amazon threatens traditional book stores), and deal with the same uncertain demand curves that plague most small businesses. As already noted here, most of them have diversified into collectible card games, pop culture memorabilia, or other niche products that don't digitize well (or at all), and that will help ensure that they survive. 
We're a long way from 1984, and print's still not dead. There may very well come a time when that's not the case, but it's not in our immediate future.