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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 44m

really all I care about is trying to live up to the glamour and prestige of my chosen profession

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

this honestly never occurred to me before but now it makes complete sense that there would have been a substantial number of fans who were pissed when Tim Drake came about because they thought they had been voting to put a stake in the concept of Robin, forever.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 17h

I realize it’s not the most important factor here but now my big question is where the rest of all the money went because that was not $150 million.

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

admittedly it did sort of feel like being stuck in a room with two hyperactive teenagers for almost two hours - feature, not a bug, I guess? 😅

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

and now let’s check out the car crash

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

well, that was quite charming! when did Dreamworks get the juice? Dreamworks really didn’t used to have the juice, but this definitely had some juice.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 21h

the previews sold this one quite handily and I’m happy to be able to catch it before it disappears. everyone I’ve seen mention it seems to have come away impressed? so I guess we’ll see!

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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It all began with the forging of the Great Dew. Code Red was given to the Elves, wisest and fairest of all beings. Voltage to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen. And Goji Citrus Strawberry was gifted to the race of Men. But they were all of them deceived. For another flavor was made.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

oh, are you really the last special boy? really and truly? a cinder block swung around on a chain can take care of that for you.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

finally put this one to bed this morning after setting it aside for a couple weeks - quick read. enjoyed this more than the first two. the series is improving for me as it goes, but I’ve heard the last couple are divisive. oh well, we’ll get there soon enough. still cannot stand Will Stanton, mind.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

in which we finish up this fraught two-parter, which stumbles in the second half by bolting the Dark Phoenix into Days of Future Past without a lot of room for any of it to breathe. oh well, at least we’re almost done with Phoenix What Ifs … right? Right? Bueller?

Review excerpt - Chris Claremont's name is gone from the credit's box - if the first chapter carried the unmistakable whiff of venting on the part of the axed X-writer, the second chapter seems to be spinning its wheels in the mode of a standard mutant-themed alternate universe. It points to a tension at the heart of What If? as a concept, still visible in the modern franchise: conflict between the series' core premise - mapping out the consequences of changes to specific turning points in established continuity - and the desire to go wide. This leads to wildly different alternate universes without necessarily showing every step of how the new world was created out of repercussions from the initial change. If that sounds overly fastidious, well, that is the premise of the series, in Roy we trust.

What If … (Vol 2) #33, cover by Rodney Ramos and Jimmy Palmiotti.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I did follow my childhood dream, that’s actually the problem

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

he clearly died doing what he loved, ingesting large quantities of radium

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Furman also established that Rogue was worthy enough to wield Mjolnir even prior to Avengers Annual #10

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

me, trying to pretend I’m still cool when Intergalactic comes on the headphones: Well, now, don't you tell me to smile You stick around, I'll make it worth your while Oh shit it’s been a while I don’t remember the rest <mumbles at sleeping cat>

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

suddenly I feel the need to inform the Beasties their rhymes are whack

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

god forbid anything blemish their favorite emotional support WASP … I’m rolling my eyes even as I recognize I’m fully part of the problem, with how many times they’ve suckered me into buying new versions of The Dark Phoenix Saga. 😅

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

while recording I tripped over the tongue-in-cheek phrase “in Roy we Trust” a couple times - it’s a bit of a stealth tongue twister, true, but damned if the universe doesn’t rebel against the concept even in jest.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Today Tegan looks at What If? (Vol 2) #33, from 1991 and Marvel Comics, by George Caragonne and Rod Ramos!

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

as bad as things are we as a society at least finally put a stake through the heart of Tiger Handheld … things can get better. don’t listen to the doomers.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

it’s been years since I drove a Taurus (or a Sable) but I felt this in my bones

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

not a fan. read a pile of his stories courtesy of Gladstone as a kid … really didn’t endear me to him! always found something rather unsettling about his line.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

holy moly, but time just slips right through your fingers, doesn’t it? ten years ago today I came out to the world and the world was never the same …

whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com

One Hundred and Sixty Four Days

Part 1 of an ongoing series. Follow up with Part 2 here . If you like my writing, please consider a donation to my Patreon . It’...

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Paul Gulacy - plates from his Black Widow portfolio (1982).

Widow in costume, holding a gun, against a black background.

Widow in costume, holding a gun, in a parlor or den setting.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

if but one comic book can be said to have taught me how to live …

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it took me a couple episodes to figure out on my own but I got there. it may take me a while but I get to the bus stop on time …

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

don’t look at me, I just recently figured out how much Ranma 1/2 hates Chinese people and that’s like forty years old

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

hell is empty and all the devils are here

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

there’s a fourth and fifth, two.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Album #3 didn’t sound like it was recorded in a gas station bathroom and it came stacked with solid tunes. but people had moved on from that moment. the masses weren’t in the mood to forgive a prickly sophomore slump because the music industry was dying. but we remember, yes. this is a baller LP.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Witness’ Dull Surprise.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the more years pass the more viscerally I feel, like a fishhook in the guts, that this second album was a test and we as a people failed

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Mama, Won’t You Keep Thise Castles in the Air Burning?

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the more years pass the more viscerally I feel, like a fishhook in the guts, that this second album was a test and we as a people failed

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

decided to make some hamburger steaks - “Salisbury” steaks if you’re fancy - but forgot the most crucial step: you have to touch the meat with your actual fingies to do that.

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Batman Scared

ALT: Batman Scared

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

folks, I finally threw out an old pair of underwear with a big hole in them, and I’m even doing my best to squelch that little voice in my head that thinks I let them down somehow

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

are we really old enough to be doing the polite semi acoustic arrangements live album for the sad people hits of the 00s oh yeah shit we kind of are god damn it fuck

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero (Live at the Royal Albert Hall).

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today is the birthday of Ira Schnapp (Oct. 10, 1894-July 24, 1969). A letterer and logo designer, he refined the Superman logo w/ Superman #6 (1940) and designed logos for the Flash, JLA, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, & more. He also designed house ads & the stamp for the Comics Code Authority.

Eight logos he designed, including the Justice League of America, Aquaman, Atom, Metamorpho The Elemental Man.
Flash, Metal Men, Green Lantern, and Plastic Man.

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