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

in which we check in with the original “Antifa” in the form of Blackhawk’s early 80s revival, and a special issue packed to the absolute gills with work by Mark Evanier, Dan Spiegle, Howard Chaykin, Dick Rockwell and … Alex Toth. yeah. cost me all of a dollar. what a world.

Review excerpt - Of course, Howard Chaykin's association with Blackhawk would linger past this volume, with the creator returning to redefine the character in the immediate post-Crisis landscape - notable for Blackhawk being the company's only World War Il era character to receive a spiffy post-Crisis refurbishment. After Chaykin the middle section is occupied by the great Dick Rockwell - perhaps not a name intimately familiar to modern readers, but renowned for being Milt Caniff's assistant for three and a half decades on Steve Canyon. As you'd expect, he sure knows how to draw an airplane. Finally, last but most certainly not least, the last stretch of the book features an appearance by none other than Alex Toth - and yes, I'll give you a moment to replace your monocle after it popped out and rolled on the floor.

Blackhawk #260, cover by Howard Chaykin.

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

this brings us right up to last year … gosh these guys are good. as good as their album covers? I expect they actually are. LP #3 introduces a horn section - frankly they could do more with the horns, every goth band could use more saxophone on principle. going to be spinning this for a while.

Rosegarden Funeral Party - A Different Kind of Carnage.

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

in which we check in with the original “Antifa” in the form of Blackhawk’s early 80s revival, and a special issue packed to the absolute gills with work by Mark Evanier, Dan Spiegle, Howard Chaykin, Dick Rockwell and … Alex Toth. yeah. cost me all of a dollar. what a world.

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

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

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

and for YouTube:

Blackhawk #260 (1983 / DC Comics) by Evanier, Spiegle, Chaykin, Rockwell, and Toth.

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

Today Tegan looks at Blackhawk #260, from 1983 and DC Comics, by Mark Evanier, Dan Spiegle, Howard Chaykin, Dick Rockwell, and Alex Toth.

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

we can only assume she’s been a host for a while now.

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

this seems like the perfect car for almost running over strange monkey children in the middle of nowhere, hopefully that doesn’t cascade into a larger adventure

Team Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 3h

howdy folks - just had the need to be adorably pragmatic today

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

one of those runs that pops up and surprises me from time to time, I know I read these books when they dropped but god damn every time I look back it’s like being hit in the face all over by just how perfect it was. that they largely biffed the character after is, of course, no great surprise.

One Big Multiverse @onebigmultiverse.bsky.social · 4h

JH Williams III and Greg Rucka going nuts in DETECTIVE COMICS #856

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

this is one of my parents’ prejudices, I freely acknowledge: they didn’t like anything with a twang so I didn’t grow up with “that country shit” playing anywhere around me … save literally everywhere else because I grew up in the sticks among people who thought NorCal was a secession state.

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

elmo from sesame street says yep in a cartoon

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

of course Johnny Cash’ reputation is going to suffer precipitously: however unfair the association, he sang in a genre that has since been completely co-opted as the house arts organ of contemporary fascism. a lot of good musicians are going to be pushed aside and forgotten completely as a result.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 22h

saw a preview that got me kind of pumped, and this is everything I wanted based on that preview. it gets from the start precisely what tone it needs to hit, and the question going forward will be - can it keep up the high key? get weirder? one issue in, Howard & Jaro got me - boy do they!

Marian Heretic #1, cover by Jenny Frison variant. my god will you take a look at that. You see that on the shelf there’s no question who that comic is for. That comic is for me.

Marian Heretic #1, by Tini Howard, Joe Jaro, and Walter Baiamonte. Look at this, Warrior nuns fighting ghouls and it looks like anime. Such a time to be alive.

Marian Heretic #1, by Tini Howard, Joe Jaro, and Walter Baiamonte. We get some worldbuilding and see our main character’s hair. There’s an awful lot of it.

Marian Heretic #1, by Tini Howard, Joe Jaro, and Walter Baiamonte. A witch leads a coven that n blasphemy. I mean look at this. Perfect. No notes. 100% recommend.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 22h

I’d be a liar if I said the event of the week wasn’t issue #25 of Conan the Barbarian, featuring Alex Horley painting the entirety of a King Conan yarn by Jim Zub … this is fantastic. about as gorgeous as the old boy’s ever looked, like he stepped right off a paperback book cover. should win awards.

Conan the Barbarian #25, cover by Alex Horley. King Conan is about to have his shit rocked, boy howdy.

Conan the Barbarian #25, by Jim Zub and Alex Horley. A nice page of King Conan just chilling in the garden and playing swords with his pal.

Conan the Barbarian #25, by Jim Zub and Alex Horley. Centerspread of Conan looking as good as he ever has. My dude. He’s just wasting a whole battlefield full of fighters. Absolute wreckage with a sword and an axe.

Conan the Barbarian #25, by Jim Zub and Alex Horley. Conan has been crucified, with nails, by an evil monkey wearing a cape accompanied by a giant snake just chilling in the background. My god. What a comic. That we should live to see such wonders.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 22h

Fanta picking up the legacy numbering for Uncle $crooge … perhaps unlikely? Kayla E designing the Gladstone revival right before our eyes strikes me as the miracle of a merciful god … I’ve overlooked the Topolino crowd since I was a kid but this actually kind of slaps, effortlessly virtuosic.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, cover by Allesandro Perina and Valeria Turati. This is just a normal-ass looking Scrooge comic and somehow that feels remarkably fresh in 2025. The gang face off against Flintheart Glomgold.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, by Francesco Artibani and Allesandro Perina. Translated by Jonathan H. Gray. Flintheart Glomgold launches an elaborate scheme. It’s amazing how not fusty this reads.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, by Francesco Artibani and Allesandro Perina. Translated by Jonathan H. Gray. Establishing short of a plan approaching an island. Quite splendid.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, by Francesco Artibani and Allesandro Perina. Translated by Jonathan H. Gray. Glomgold crosses a line, I’d argue, by basically taking the kids hostage at the outset of a long chain of events. It reads like mainstream event storytelling tbh. Not necessarily pejorative.

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

I assume it’d be better than a sequel to a “crime” book I didn’t read

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

yeah but they’re doing a sequel to 101 Dalmatians

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

it came to me as if in a dream

The Norman Rockwell meme but the guy is saying “they should make one where Lois and Lana kiss.”

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

I just wrote a review for Precious Rubbish a couple months back - couldn’t have asked for a better designer for the relaunch.

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

two men are standing next to each other in a room .

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

yeah and they exposed you to Fethry

a diamond shaped sign with a skull and crossbones and the word poison on it

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

Gladstone trained me to pick the Good Duck Artist out of a lineup before I even knew who Stan Lee was!

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

childhood prejudice, you see, from the habit of flipping through the Gladstone issues off the supermarket rack, checking to see if there was a Barks or Rosa story inside, and being disappointed if the credits page listed an unfamiliar Italian or Belgian name. how else do you think I became a snob?

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 17h

Cover by Russ Heath.

Marvel Tales #130 (1955). The cover is an image of a giant, clawed hand over a city, holding a group of people while a few are falling out and some are barely hanging on. "The Strange Tale of...'THE GIANT KILLER!'"

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