A highlight, on this desk, is a memory with witnesses. If a Marvel digital comic drop moved figures and nobody talked about a page, that is market noise. If a quiet issue produced a three-day argument about a colour hold on page twelve, that is a highlight.
We keep a short test. Could a collector who missed the week reconstruct the talk from our recap without needing a ticker? If the answer is no, we have written the wrong thing.
The test keeps us away from fake urgency. We will not invent a last-chance window. We will name the actual drop hours in UK time and then describe the conversation that followed.
Manchester readers often send us a pub-table version of the same story. When the pub version and the forum version agree on the issue title and disagree on the mood, we print both moods and leave the argument on the page.