Tim “Pokémon Go to the” Rooney
@urbaneturtle.com
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)
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Urbane Turtle
Writer.Artist.Creative.
urbaneturtle.com
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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Cleaning out old screenshots/photos and this on got me all over again
January 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Cleaning out old screenshots/photos and this on got me all over again
I started playing Pokémon Go again because my son likes throwing all the Pokéballs that I worked so hard to collect so I need to make more friends I can exchange gifts with
Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 197745948851!
Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 197745948851!
January 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I started playing Pokémon Go again because my son likes throwing all the Pokéballs that I worked so hard to collect so I need to make more friends I can exchange gifts with
Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 197745948851!
Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 197745948851!
Lotta people finding out that the “religious left” is a real and powerful thing after spending years trying to box anything and anyone religiously affiliated out of progressive spaces
January 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Lotta people finding out that the “religious left” is a real and powerful thing after spending years trying to box anything and anyone religiously affiliated out of progressive spaces
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The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
The “woooow!” At the end
this little girl just ripped every friend i have that’s a mom apart perfectly
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
The “woooow!” At the end
I crunched the numbers and made some charts to break down the year in reading 962 comic books and rounded up all of my 2025 “best of” contributions at urbaneturtle.com and the Beat.
Turtle Club Newsletter: 2025 in review
Looking back on the year that was through the power of numbers, charts, and words.
urbaneturtle.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I crunched the numbers and made some charts to break down the year in reading 962 comic books and rounded up all of my 2025 “best of” contributions at urbaneturtle.com and the Beat.
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In 2025, I read 962 comic books to pick the ten (or so) best of the year FOR YOU. Some might say that is too many comic books. They're right. But I did it anyway. urbaneturtle.com/2025/12/31/t...
The 2025 Urbane Turtle Year in Review Part 2: The Best Comics of 2025
Urbane Turtle picks the 10 best comics of 2025.
urbaneturtle.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:38 AM
In 2025, I read 962 comic books to pick the ten (or so) best of the year FOR YOU. Some might say that is too many comic books. They're right. But I did it anyway. urbaneturtle.com/2025/12/31/t...
Elon got the whole damn EU mad
January 11, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Elon got the whole damn EU mad
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maybe heading towards some of those weeks where decades happen
BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 3:13 AM
maybe heading towards some of those weeks where decades happen
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America is yearning for "it."
January 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
America is yearning for "it."
Probably would make life worse somehow but good
European Union preparing sanctions on US companies if President Trump rejects EU proposal to deploy European military force to Greenland as an alternative to US control.-Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Probably would make life worse somehow but good
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
Hearing rumblings about “Pokémon lazarus”
January 11, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Hearing rumblings about “Pokémon lazarus”
I had a manhattan ama
January 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I had a manhattan ama
JD Vance is a cool guy. Not because he’s charming or charismatic or intelligent or anything like that. But because he is a total loser idiot who converted to Catholicism because he thought it was just evangelicalism with fancy churches and the pope hates him
January 11, 2026 at 12:13 AM
JD Vance is a cool guy. Not because he’s charming or charismatic or intelligent or anything like that. But because he is a total loser idiot who converted to Catholicism because he thought it was just evangelicalism with fancy churches and the pope hates him
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Pedocon theory on a longer dynasty run than the 1990s Chicago Bulls
January 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Pedocon theory on a longer dynasty run than the 1990s Chicago Bulls
Aw man I didn’t know he was cool
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
January 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Aw man I didn’t know he was cool
They were going to invade her home. Third and fourth amendment not worth shit these days
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
They were going to invade her home. Third and fourth amendment not worth shit these days
Wolverine is cool
January 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Wolverine is cool
Massively cleaning and reorganizing because I, out of exasperation, bought a big cabinet for the mudroom on a whim not thinking through the ripple effect it would cause in the preparation
January 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Massively cleaning and reorganizing because I, out of exasperation, bought a big cabinet for the mudroom on a whim not thinking through the ripple effect it would cause in the preparation
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i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
Ok but counterpoint: ICE shooting down police would make them the bad guys
I’m seeing people get mad at this but it is a problem that any attempts to arrest an ICE officer come with a very real threat of them shooting at the police who try to do it and I think it’s good that Frey is talking about that. I don’t know how to deal with that either!
"The question that you're basically asking is, can our cops arrest them? From a legal perspective, yes. From a practical perspective...they have bigger guns than we do." That's where we're at.
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Ok but counterpoint: ICE shooting down police would make them the bad guys
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Oh totally. The fact that they have to push all their chips in to terrorize a mid-sized city is a sign of weakness.
January 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Oh totally. The fact that they have to push all their chips in to terrorize a mid-sized city is a sign of weakness.
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The scale of how many ICE agents there are in Minnesota right now is something that seems to be getting lost in the discourse. It’s why they seem to be everywhere.
There are twice as many ICE agents in town as there are cops in Minneapolis and St. Paul combined. How do they imagine it would go down, exactly
January 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The scale of how many ICE agents there are in Minnesota right now is something that seems to be getting lost in the discourse. It’s why they seem to be everywhere.