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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’ve got a few recommendations for the old school Doctor Who fans around here. That’s not to say more recent fans wouldn’t enjoy these, it’s just I believe these are targeted for us old fogies. DOCTOR WHO – THE FORGOTTEN Within the past couple years, IDW has picked up the Doctor Who comic book license [...]
The first ever ONCE UPON A GEEK contest! Enter here for your chance to win one of five copies of The Wolverine Files from Simon & Schuster Books! The Wolverine Files by Mike W. Barr (Star Trek, Camelot 3000, Batman & the Outsiders, etc) is a gorgeous 160-page hardcover that details the complete story of [...]
Don’t know how I missed this, but a new Star Trek: New Frontier novel by Peter David was released back in April. I picked it up this weekend and can’t wait to read it! The new book is called Treason and has been published in oversized softcover format, sometimes called trade paperback format (not to [...]
Today’s post is in honor of Memorial Day because SGhoul swears that Jim Dale is dead. In case you hadn’t heard, the Trustees of the Pooh Properties have finally authorized a sequel to A.A. Milne’s classic, The House at Pooh Corner, more than 80 years after its publication. While I appreciate the significance of this, [...]
For the past few days, I’ve been haunted by the same thought over and over. Should I quit buying comics? It all started when I was in a used bookstore on Saturday. This was one of those rare occasions when the children were with a babysitter and I could really take my time looking through [...]
The Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC) totally rocks! I’ve been a member for years. Each time I complete my commitment, I rejoin to take advantage of their bargains. Book clubs have a reputation for being overpriced, but the SFBC has a generous introductory offer and frequent bargains that definitely save you money. I recently completed [...]
…unless of course you’ve got these too. Then you’re in the cool kids club.
I stumbled across this really cool site that gives tips on how to write for superheroes – Superhero Nation: a superhero writing advice site. They offer their advice and observations about writing, editing, marketing and selling a novel. They also provide resources for the authors of superhero stories. Here is an indexed list of posts [...]
I hear from a lot of my friends that Star Trek is dead to them. They don’t believe there is any Star Trek out there worth taking notice of. I believe there are tons of Star Trek stories out there to enjoy if you simply look. Much of what I like is older, but it’s [...]
LIST WEEK continues here at ONCE UPON A GEEK! Today’s list comes from the Telegraph newspaper and is ‘The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature‘. My thanks to my buddy ‘lessthan12parsecs’ for posting this list to THE UNIQUE GEEK. These literary villains hail from a variety of places, but there are definitely some folks with geek-cred [...]
