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Tim Rooney

@urbaneturtle.com

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Superheroes and Phillies. Freelance comics critic for hire. Seen in Eisner Award winners PanelxPanel & The ComicsBeat. Also ComicsXF and CBR. Action figure enthusiast. M.A, Theology. Nonprofit guy. Husband. Dad. (He/Him) https://urbaneturtle.com

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · Dec 12

I'm a freelance comics critic & writer. I run urbaneturtle.com, where I post regular reviews & in depth criticism and analysis of comics old and new. I've written for The Comics Beat, ComicsXF, CBR, and the Eisner Award winning PanelxPanel. You can peruse the archive or this thread for highlights 🧷🧵

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Writer.Artist.Creative.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1h

Frank Quitely’s really rather wonderful variant cover for this year’s Batman & Robin: Year One #9.

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 3h

The Road to the Show mode play by play guy is so rude

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 6h

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 16h

In which case I hope the Dodgers fall apart and their pitchers all get gassed

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 16h

Mariners are going to get creamed in the ALCS. I think Dodgers pitchers are going to quiet that Brewers offense.

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 16h

Remember when Johan Rojas just watched the ball land in front of him

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 17h

Trying to use my comiXology unlimited free trial but it is apparently impossible to just search the comiXology unlimited library

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 18h

Might have decided on my Halloween costume

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 18h

Go Flyers

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 20h

Williamson makes junk food and not even the kind you love to eat we’re walking store brand “munchos” potato chips that you feel sick after eating and leave an indescribable residue on your finger

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 21h

Catholics are actually pretty high on the list

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 21h

Not even joking they have done this story four times already

AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 1d

Doctor Strange replacement story will start in December!
#MarvelComics #NYCC #NYCC2025 #NextBigThing

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 21h

Si se puede

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 22h

They made 2 Mortal Kombats?

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 22h

New Line Eyeing ‘Mortal Kombat III’ With Jeremy Slater Returning As Screenwriter deadline.com/2025/10/mort...

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 23h

Pretty sick. Dunno if it is $80 sick but I would absolutely dirty this guy up to be truer to the @danielwarrenart.bsky.social art.

preternia @preternia.com · 1d

Hasbro Transformers Studio Series Energon Universe Optimus Prime has been added to the #nycc booth.

Available to preorder now at Hasbro Pulse ($79.99) - bit.ly/47kGO91

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 23h

Don’t know what to do for dinner

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 23h

I just can’t understand it.

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 23h

Marvel has confirmed the end of the Ultimate Universe next year, and seems like they’re *actually* doing it, per this quote from Dan Buckley:

“You’ll be able to take this journey—the beginning, middle, and end—and digest it for years to come and pass it on to others,” Head of Marvel Comics and Franchise Dan Buckley added.

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 20d

Recounting not only the making of Star Wars but the personal history that drove George Lucas's vision, Laurent Hopman and Renaud Roche's biography of Lucas, LUCAS WARS, is the Fabelmans that the intensely personal and aloof artist would never make about himself.

Graphic Novel Review: LUCAS WARS is a stirring and intimate portrait of an artist

Laurent Hopman and Renaud Roche’s biography of George Lucas is The Fabelmans that the intensely personal and aloof artist would never make about himself.

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