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Tegan O’Neil

@teganoneil5000.bsky.social

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Critic for 2017 & 2018 winners of the Eisner in Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism / Writer of Fantasy / They/Them / https://linktr.ee/teganoneil5000

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · Jan 18

spread the word throughout the land - The Best of Tegan O’Neil 2021-2024 is real, it’s now - friends, it’s a mega-wow!

The Best of Tegan O'Neil
2021-2024

Essays on Batman, Michael DeForge, Rogue, Shako, Barry Windsor-Smith, Kris Kool, Ashley Wood, Liam Sharp, Will Morris, Sergio Aragonés, Erika Price, Rick Leonardi, Al Taliaferro, Katie Skelly, Víctor Ibanez, Nemesis the Warlock, Batman: Year One, Joe Casey, and Little Nuns, with a new Introduction by the author.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11m

I’m getting a lot of use out of this one tonight:

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 12m

a painting of a person holding a sword in the wind .

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 18m

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 19m

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 19m

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 25m

now that I have seen this, so must you:

Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe #4 (Dave Wachter Marvelzed Wolverine-Zilla Variant).

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 30m

they’re not that smart

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 31m

so wait lemme get this straight the new DC crossover is a big fight to see who is going to be king of the Omegaverse, do I have that right

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 2h

I hate to be the one to bring this to light, but:

Donald Duck #296 - Donald paces in front of a barbed wire fence holding a club as the caption reads “Borderline Hero.” Yeaaaah.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 2h

I hate to be the one to bring this to light, but:

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 2h

Rodger is never prepared for the consequences of bugging me, i.e. me grabbing him, squeezing him, and saying “look at you!” in a funny voice until he mews and squirms away

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 8h

friends, the time has come - take a moment from your day, lower your heads, and appreciate one of the realist there ever was:

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Official Music Video)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

Lauryn Hill just shared a moving tribute to the late D’Angelo:

People need reflection.

I regret not having more time with you. Your undeniable beauty and talent were not of this world, and a presence not of this world needs protection in a world that covets light and the anointing of God. You sir, moved us, stirred us, inspired and even intimidated others to action with your genius. Thank you for being a beacon of light to a generation and beyond who had no
remembrance of the legacy that preceded us. Thank you for charting the course and for making
space during a time when no similar space really existed.

You imaged a unity of strength and sensitivity in Black manhood to a generation that only saw itself as having to be one or the other. It is my earnest prayer that you are in peace, far away from selfishness, fear and/or controlling interests. Far from possessiveness, far from greed, far from manipulation, far from exploitation, far from intentionally designed chaos and that you Brother are in peace, in bliss and in eternal light and fulfillment with our Father in heaven. I Love you and I miss you. May God grant peace and shelter to your family, true friends and genuine appreciators, Brother, King.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 3h

to be fair Beetle is sleeping and has no idea what’s going on because he never watches the news.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 3h

beetle bailey arc where we learn who in camp swampy will obey orders to fire on american citizens once the insurrection act is invoked. my picks are rocky, zero, and, surprisingly, plato. killer surprises everyone by making a big show of not doing it. beetle simply goes AWOL

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 4h

plus they already did the best “Sue Dies!” story back in 1983, hard to ever top this:

What If? (Vol 1) #42 - What If The Invisible Girl Had Died? Cover by Michael Freakin Golden.

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 4h

yeah, your Immortal Reed Richards pitch sort of writes itself when you start to extrapolate just what having those kinds of powers does to a person’s brain

The Devouring Mother @ragnell.bsky.social · 4h

That's one of the reasons to be horrified at Prof X rooting around in there, actually. That brain didn't work like a normal brain BEFORE he got powers, now it's super-irresponsible to mess with it. Imagine a guy who's power is to flex and stretch his brain trying to RECOVER a memory.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 4h

Bob Oksner’s Mary Marvel was always a treat!

Mary being fired on by several guns, telling her assailants it tickles.

Mary eating the bullets, but declaring she prefers them chocolate-covered.

Mary taking a sword to her back, and telling the assailant it’s a good back-scratching.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

Tony isn’t free of Extremis until his brain gets rebooted during Dark Reign. works for me!

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

oh god yes, Extremis. to the cornfield with you.

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

nor would we get the Hulk coming back with a sword and turning Manhattan into a torture dungeon JUST for the Illuminati.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

I mean - yeah. there’s a great story to be pulled out of everyone who died in the run up to the Hickman Secret Wars deciding to sue the Illuminati to oblivion:

“they destroyed all these universes full of incursion victims, THEN their god-child rewrote reality? they’ll be destroyed in discovery.”

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

it would be so easy to get out of that one, inasmuch as his powers just knew better than to want to get involved in Krakoa and what eventually became a game of three-card Monte between various Sinister clones wanting to become capital-G God. “glad that weirdness is over, back to being a mutant.”

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

I’m “maybe shove that canoe *all* the way up his ass if he wants to maintain his lucrative career of playacting a dirty prole to the richest crowds in the land”

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

even a certified Hater™️ like myself gives that one a spin now and then

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5h

yeah, I thought the FF would have been justified in going to war with Krakoa from the moment they threatened Franklin in HoX/PoX. you lose the high ground in every conversation when you go after the First Family. that’s hardwired into the MU, just like “Cap is always right (even when he’s wrong).”

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