Tegan O’Neil
@teganoneil5000.bsky.social
Critic for 2017 & 2018 winners of the Eisner in Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism / Writer of Fantasy / They/Them / https://linktr.ee/teganoneil5000
Cat in a box, I know,
I know it's serious.
I know it's serious.
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Cat in a box, I know,
I know it's serious.
I know it's serious.
in which we continue our look back at Richard Corben’s Aliens series, ca. 1997 - and really, what more do you need to know? Dick Corben drawing the space bug, go tell your mom!
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
in which we continue our look back at Richard Corben’s Aliens series, ca. 1997 - and really, what more do you need to know? Dick Corben drawing the space bug, go tell your mom!
Today Tegan looks at Aliens: Alchemy #2, from 1997 and Dark Horse Comics, by John Arcudi and Richard Corben.
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Today Tegan looks at Aliens: Alchemy #2, from 1997 and Dark Horse Comics, by John Arcudi and Richard Corben.
the past is a foreign country where you needed to keep an analog journal to write down the clues or you’d never get anywhere
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
the past is a foreign country where you needed to keep an analog journal to write down the clues or you’d never get anywhere
I think I like this even more than the last one? yet, still struck by the reasons I could never dig them before, and still find myself at arms’ length. all the stuff they seem to love - 50s Americana, honky tonk, the Bakersfield sound - makes me think about suffering a violent death. oh well.
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I think I like this even more than the last one? yet, still struck by the reasons I could never dig them before, and still find myself at arms’ length. all the stuff they seem to love - 50s Americana, honky tonk, the Bakersfield sound - makes me think about suffering a violent death. oh well.
I realized I have neglected my responsibilities as a comics blogger in this degraded era - there was no acknowledgement that just two months ago we passed the 20th Anniversary of Wolverine Making This Face on the Cover of The Pulse #11:
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I realized I have neglected my responsibilities as a comics blogger in this degraded era - there was no acknowledgement that just two months ago we passed the 20th Anniversary of Wolverine Making This Face on the Cover of The Pulse #11:
do I like the second more than the first? I just might? I can dig the slightly pared down vibe. the 50s schtick is a step up from Sha Na Na, not my favorite thing, but it gives them a foil, certainly. ultimately they’re an LA band above all else, to a non-Angelino Californian they reek of the city.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
do I like the second more than the first? I just might? I can dig the slightly pared down vibe. the 50s schtick is a step up from Sha Na Na, not my favorite thing, but it gives them a foil, certainly. ultimately they’re an LA band above all else, to a non-Angelino Californian they reek of the city.
in which we look at a coelacanth dredged up from the mid-70s - the brief and unlikely revival of one of Simon & Kirby’s strangest strips, given new life from reprints in the back of Mister Miracle
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
in which we look at a coelacanth dredged up from the mid-70s - the brief and unlikely revival of one of Simon & Kirby’s strangest strips, given new life from reprints in the back of Mister Miracle
Today Tegan looks at Boy Commandos #1, from 1973 and DC, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby!
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Today Tegan looks at Boy Commandos #1, from 1973 and DC, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby!
the past is a foreign country
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
the past is a foreign country
I started the arc skeptical but now I’m completely on board, it got better and ended strong. the sliding timescale now means Cap woke up in the middle of the Forever War epoch, not the swinging 60s - makes a difference! I hadn’t seen my guy for a while, but you know what? this here’s my guy.
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I started the arc skeptical but now I’m completely on board, it got better and ended strong. the sliding timescale now means Cap woke up in the middle of the Forever War epoch, not the swinging 60s - makes a difference! I hadn’t seen my guy for a while, but you know what? this here’s my guy.
this came out last week but a plane exploded so here we are … perhaps I surprised myself by how much I wanted to read this comic … Black Cat drawn by Humberto Ramos? I am, as the record shows, a complete sucker for Black Cat, so also 100% completely on board with every story being about her now.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
this came out last week but a plane exploded so here we are … perhaps I surprised myself by how much I wanted to read this comic … Black Cat drawn by Humberto Ramos? I am, as the record shows, a complete sucker for Black Cat, so also 100% completely on board with every story being about her now.
every page is a spoiler so I’ll just say: would have been better if it were a tight six or tighter five issues, people forgot about it because it went on way too long. it didn’t end how I thought it would, props to that. but I can only laugh: the big last page reveal was printed too dark, illegible.
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
every page is a spoiler so I’ll just say: would have been better if it were a tight six or tighter five issues, people forgot about it because it went on way too long. it didn’t end how I thought it would, props to that. but I can only laugh: the big last page reveal was printed too dark, illegible.
Boom Box has been on my radar for a while because they’re targeting a chunk of the market that seems desperately underserved in America, and this is a great example: fanfic “Mary Sue” comes alive to show her harried creator how to live. fun stuff with broad appeal, deserves a much bigger audience.
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Boom Box has been on my radar for a while because they’re targeting a chunk of the market that seems desperately underserved in America, and this is a great example: fanfic “Mary Sue” comes alive to show her harried creator how to live. fun stuff with broad appeal, deserves a much bigger audience.
ok, whoever at IDW decided to do the series in black & white deserves the Eisner - elevated what could have been a hollow exercise into a something that feels a lot stranger. of course Scioli’s contribution is remarkable, sui generis - and Stokoe next month? what the heck? comics are back, baby!
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
ok, whoever at IDW decided to do the series in black & white deserves the Eisner - elevated what could have been a hollow exercise into a something that feels a lot stranger. of course Scioli’s contribution is remarkable, sui generis - and Stokoe next month? what the heck? comics are back, baby!
believe it or not I actually left a couple nice Rogue covers on the shelf this week … I don’t love-love her Age of Apocalypse look, however, so it wasn’t a hard choice to leave a new Jeph Loeb book on the shelf. I mean, ok, it was a medium-hard choice.
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
believe it or not I actually left a couple nice Rogue covers on the shelf this week … I don’t love-love her Age of Apocalypse look, however, so it wasn’t a hard choice to leave a new Jeph Loeb book on the shelf. I mean, ok, it was a medium-hard choice.
still isn’t my favorite, but you can trace the trajectory of the last few decades from how my opinion changed from “uncharacteristically didactic, sticks out like a sore thumb” to “the nerds thought it important enough in 1990 to break kayfabe and say party drunk racists are the biggest red flag”
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
still isn’t my favorite, but you can trace the trajectory of the last few decades from how my opinion changed from “uncharacteristically didactic, sticks out like a sore thumb” to “the nerds thought it important enough in 1990 to break kayfabe and say party drunk racists are the biggest red flag”
UPDATE: dese beanz
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
UPDATE: dese beanz
SPECIAL BULLETIN: dem beanz
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
SPECIAL BULLETIN: dem beanz
in which we continue our look at Ron Lim’s big creator-owned move, part of Marvel’s grand riposte to Image, spotlighting Asian influences largely - but not completely - alien to the market of 1993, and for which Lim was an pioneer
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
in which we continue our look at Ron Lim’s big creator-owned move, part of Marvel’s grand riposte to Image, spotlighting Asian influences largely - but not completely - alien to the market of 1993, and for which Lim was an pioneer
Today Tegan looks at Dragon Lines #2, from 1993 and Marvel / Epic Comics, by Peter Quinones, Ron Lim, and James Sanders III!
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today Tegan looks at Dragon Lines #2, from 1993 and Marvel / Epic Comics, by Peter Quinones, Ron Lim, and James Sanders III!
here’s one I haven’t gone back to in a while … honestly, it never quite sticks in a way I feel the need to be defensive about. it’s ok! 🤷🏻♀️
mom had the tape in the car in the 80s and if I had to guess why it’s because of “Soul Kitchen,” but I don’t think she liked it because I didn’t hear it much.
mom had the tape in the car in the 80s and if I had to guess why it’s because of “Soul Kitchen,” but I don’t think she liked it because I didn’t hear it much.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
here’s one I haven’t gone back to in a while … honestly, it never quite sticks in a way I feel the need to be defensive about. it’s ok! 🤷🏻♀️
mom had the tape in the car in the 80s and if I had to guess why it’s because of “Soul Kitchen,” but I don’t think she liked it because I didn’t hear it much.
mom had the tape in the car in the 80s and if I had to guess why it’s because of “Soul Kitchen,” but I don’t think she liked it because I didn’t hear it much.