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Jake Mango
@rubyjortz.bsky.social
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That’s a triple entendre!
Reading on/off most days
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My GOAT!
Sensor Girl from the Legion of Super-Heroes floating above her teammates. Caption below her reads “Sensor Girl” in large red font.
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Countdown (to final crisis) was worse than I thought it would be
A dog with human abs and hands, wielding a carving knife, leaps towards a bald man. The man thinks: “the ABSURDITY of it FROZE me for a second. A dog with a CARVING KNIFE. I wish I could say it was a PRACTICED move . . .”
June 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Packing the essentials
Gates from the Legion of Superheroes, saying to himself: “… And I’ve got to think carefully. I’ll never be able to replace any of these things in the 30th cen[tury].” He’s packing into his bag copies of the books The Nation, Das Kapital, and Rules for Radicals, and CDs of The Clash and Rage Against the Machine, along with a Che Guevara t-shirt.
March 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Plorby?
A page from Legionnaires issue 26. First Panel: Invisible Kid looks shocked and asks: “Reep wob?” Second Panel: Invisible Kid walks next to Chameleon and says: “Ahh… Flen lig borrble. Maybe you’d better not mention this back home. Not just yet, anyway.” Chameleon responds: “Plorby?”
March 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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What?? Wow!
A drawing of Hal Jordan wandering the desert, and he says: “It’s like operating a ring at a great distance… or listening to a record with the volume turned way down! But I’m doing it! I’ve got the will power to go with the green power!” Next panel: he jumps for no reason and shouts “WOW! It feels so good!” Third panel: “And there’s the hole opening for me!” And a hole opens up in the sand for him
February 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Love this hairstyle. Deadly scary
A shrouded figure asks a hunter with two pigtails: “are we prepared?” The hunter responds: “absolutely. All the preparations for the great passage are under way, and my work is finished.
January 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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When DC comics was my age, the Legion showed up which is actually pretty perfect
The cover of Adventure Comics 247 reads “Featuring the Legion of Super-heroes!” Superboy stands before a trio of Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy and Saturn Girl, all voting “no.” Cosmic Boy says “I'M SORRY, SUPERBOY, BUT WE CANNOT ADMIT YOU INTO OUR SUPER- HERO CLUB! YOUR LOW SCORE ON THE TESTS WE GAVE YOU PROVES YOUR POWERS ARE TOO ORDINARY!”
January 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Guy who’s only seen Digimon: this is giving me Digimon vibes #datasquad
Darkseid and his son, Orion fighting amidst flames, one covered in blue and the other red energy. “IT SEEMS I ERRED IN RESTORING YOU TO LIFE, MY SON.” “RESTORING-? YOU MEAN DESECRATING ME, DO YOU NOT, FATHER? YOU STOLE THOSE CELLS FROM ME IN LIFE--AND WARPED THEM TO MAKE A SHAMBLING MOCKERY OF ME IN DEATH. NO MORE, FATHER.... .. YOUR CURSED VOICE WILL BE STILL!” “BUT, YOUTH, I MERELY-“ “STILL, I SAY... YOUR TONGUE COULD SEDUCE A PLANET OF PRIESTS, DARKSEID... BUT NOT YOUR OWN SON. HIGHFATHER.. I HAVE FULFILLED THE PROPHECY.”
January 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Today I brought the monster out in public for the first time (!) and almost left it on the floor I’m so good at meditating 🙂‍↕️
A half gallon metal water bottle in front of my hand
January 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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A smiling star. Above and below, text reads: The “Just Kidding” Star Put this Star in your post when you're just kidding, so that your buddies know if you're just joking around
January 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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A cloaked blue-skinned woman shields a young child with a shadow, while above her a woman is struck by a pink beam Two stone-skinned creatures emerge from a warp in space, one below and firing a pink beam from its hand, and the other above and reaching towards the blue woman
January 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I’ve read probably 200+ issues since this one, yet I still think every day about Jan Barth’s gun. . . Holding it…
A panel from Adventure Comics #342; a man in shadow says, “That’s Nura Nal’s space-flier… she came after me to save you! But she’s too late now…!” In the background a spaceship is touching down, and in the foreground a man is on the ground, reaching for a weapon, and thinks “I have only one chance… if I can extend my super-heavy hand far enough to grab Jan Barth’s gun…”
January 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM