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By day, The Irredeemable Shag plays the part of a wealthy industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. By night, he is a frightening creature that strikes terror into the hearts of criminals!
... or ...
maybe The Irredeemable Shag managed a comic book store for four years, and a movie theater megaplex for three years. Nowadays he's just a really vocal geek on THE UNIQUE GEEK, a semi-regular on the VIEWS FROM THE LONGBOX podcast, and runs the ONCE UPON A GEEK and FIRESTORM FAN blogs.
You decide...I finally got my copy of the Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space Roleplaying Game, and turns out I’m in it! Well… I’m not exactly IN the game, but I am mentioned in the credits and some of my playtesting group’s contributions made it into the game! Sorry to subject you to what follows. [...]
The Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space role-playing game by Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd was released a couple weeks ago in England, and I should finally get my hands on a copy today! I ordered the game through my LCS, which is getting it from Diamond Comics Distributors. Diamond has it listed on their [...]
Because nobody demanded it! Here are some updated pictures of my Comicatorium (a.k.a. Shag’s Sanctum Sanctorum). Did some rearranging recently and I’m pretty pleased with the results so I figured I’d show it off here. My thanks to the Irrepressible Gena for her assistance and inspiration. Biggest change below is the new flat-screen monitor for [...]
As I’ve reported here previously, I’m totally excited for the release of the Doctor Who roleplaying game by Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd. Myself and four friends were playtesters for this RPG back in the first quarter of 2008, so we’ve been waiting a long time for this to come out. Below are the three solicited [...]
Assuming all is well with air travel, I should be in Atlanta this morning!!! Me and 30,000 of my closest friends all weekend long! Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US. It’s the 6th largest convention in the [...]
One Week Until Dragon*Con 2009!!! ‘Nuff Said.
Finally! Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space role-playing game release has been officially announced. Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd has been working on this for a LONG time. It’s nice to see that they’ve finally been able to announce the month of release. Watch for it coming in October to a den of geeks near [...]
BLUE DEVIL WEEK continues here at Once Upon a Geek! Today we’ll be spotlighting places Blue Devil has turned up outside of comic books. Don’t forget, on Friday we’ll feature an exclusive ONCE UPON A GEEK interview with the creators of Blue Devil! Animation Blue Devil made a few cameos in the Justice League Unlimited [...]
When playing role-playing games, which action resolution system do you prefer? Do you prefer the elegance and simplicity of a single die roll? Or do you prefer the tactile sensation of a bunch of die clacking together in your hand just before you roll? Do you believe in calculating the sum of multiple dice, or are [...]
Believe it or not, there was a time when Watchmen wasn’t the pinnacle of comic book achievement. Back in 1987 it was simply a comic book being published by DC and was subject to the same exploitation as all other mid-80s comic books. To be specific, it was the subject of three role-playing supplements from [...]
