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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 · 31m

no shade! I loved a lot of those books. but they inspired a kind of cultishness that definitely helped build that, ahem, “brand equity,” and I don’t really see that same kind of immersive experience anywhere in the industry anymore.

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 6h

I’m the only person who knows about AWA. it’s my secret and they promised they wouldn’t tell anyone else.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 6h

how mad do they get in arizona if you pronounce it "Tuck son"

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 6h

yeah very true. I think of anyone working today Ram V might just have the number for that kind of fanbase.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 7h

They never bring back any of the really good villains.

Villain(s)

• Several bears (no further appearances)

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 7h

no, of course not. it’s clearly them fucking around, which is still more lively than most of the line.

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 7h

this is both true and hilarious, since Axel Alonso’s Vertigo already lives on at AWA

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 7h

No, see, what they've actually revived here isn't Karen Berger Vertigo, it's Axel Alonso Vertigo, which is a different beast entirely. This one will just cause some dudes to wear trench coats.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 7h

honestly his bonkers origin is the best part of the character. it’s taking out two cards in the front row of the lane that gets me - he just tanked a Bullseye AND a Daken, in one fell swoop.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 7h

you can still pick Kay Challis

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 7h

who’s your least favorite asshole? used to be Red Guardian - he still pisses me off near daily - but honestly, Cosmic Ghost Rider is getting up there. hate that dude. every time he shows up it’s a bad scene.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 8h

The guy Charles Schulz made a comic called Peanuts and it’s pretty good

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

where do you see that energy in those new Vertigo books

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

of the announced Vertigo revival titles which has the best chance of becoming the new personality of the most annoying high school junior you know

that was the lucrative niche Vertigo conquered first time around, where do we see that now

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 10h

no one has ever had as good an introduction as Stylor in 1987

Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 10h

duros: stylor can't fight, he's like gay or something!
galen: duros, you're not wearing pants
duros: and is it stylish? no!!!! my point stands

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

that’s a threat, you are now legally entitled to pull a gun on your computer.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 15h

I swear, the boy only wants to sit in my lap when he thinks it’s inconveniencing me

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

I fear Silent Bob will outlive us all, friend.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 12h

coming to terms with the fact that the "Tank Man" photo of our time is going to be a shaky TikTok of an out-of-shape ICE goon shooting a furry in the face

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

and now the government will place a bounty of 10,000,000 berries on the head of anyone anywhere who tries to cure cancer

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 20h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13h

notice for anyone who enjoyed Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers / “Time Runs Out”: there’s a new series this season, SI-VIS: The Sound of Heroes, that nicks the incursion premise but asks the crucial question: “why didn’t the Illuminati try singing?”

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13h

they’re not just out here corrupting just anyone, you got to work for it

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 14h

that IS digital lettering

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 15h

I swear, the boy only wants to sit in my lap when he thinks it’s inconveniencing me

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 15h

why would you want to write a story that’s just 22 pages of killing babies and then Bruce and Lex having a nice baby steak dinner afterwards

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 16h

Waller sends Bruce and Lex to kill the Superman babies

We'd have to come up with the rest of it

(2/2)

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 16h

Force Works had a strange bit of folding magic that was never tried before or since, if you find it to look at online you see it’s a lot more fiddly and doesn’t really work 100% … this iirc was “just” a fold out like you’d find in any number of children’s book.