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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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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 3m

Yes I know those two teams won games at home after dropping two in the road

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 2h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 9m

This is great. I love to be governed by evil nincompoops. I haven’t spent two days in Canada getting passive aggressively dogged on as a country

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 12m

Phillies have had very few times in the last three months where they’ve lost three in a row

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 13m

Cubs and Yankees both one game 3 after going down 2-0

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Zack Quaintance -> NYCC @zackquaintance.bsky.social · 4h

7 days left you all, just 7 days..going to go SUPER fast with NYCC starting

Back now so you don’t miss out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

Macabre Valley #1

A grindhouse Texas horror comic.

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 3h

The “ultimate universe” ending is probably intentionally misleading and it’ll be a relaunch maybe under a different name because Marvel hates its readers and making things easy to follow

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 3h

Marvel Comics editorial policy

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 3h

The only consistently good comics Marvel is releasing are from the Ultimate line so it makes sense that they would eliminate it because this editorial regime is dedicated to mediocrity.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump regime's war on Christianity continues, as regime troops attacks Americans across the United States and rounds up majority Christian immigrants, they've also targeted religious leaders.

Here the Trump regime ICE forces shot a pastor in the head in the latest attack on civilians.

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 6h

I’m so insanely tired I can’t spend 3 full days listening to people talk

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 6h

I guess you didn’t understand Ryan was supposed look like an idiot in this scene

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 9h

I can’t decide if I would rather the Phillies just get put out of their misery and get swept or if I’d like to see them fight to extend to a game 5 and lose. Winning is preferable obviously but the odds are infinitesimal

Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 10h

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 21h

This guy is journalism royalty. His mother, April, was a famous tv reporter in New York City for Channel 6 News.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 22h

This is what the Phillies need to do (won’t). Also the Yankees will probably lose

Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 22h

The Yankees’ ability to barrage a team with home runs always keeps them in the game. And if they can hold the lead, which they now have after a Jazz Chisholm homer, Toronto is facing a bullpen game tomorrow, a day after their RP needed to cover 5+ innings. Not ideal for the Jays.