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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 love me some old Marvel Star Wars comics! Of the 107 issues, I firmly believe the Shira Brie saga spanning issues 60 through 63 were some of the best of the series! Scott and Chris of Two True Freaks were kind enough to invite me onto their podcast recently to discuss this fantastic storyline! [...]
Marvel just finished a fun three-issue mini-series entitled, Ant-Man & Wasp. It was written and penciled by Tim Seeley with inks by Victor Olazaba. The mini-series has action, humor, and some cool science. I’m a big fan of the All-New Ant-Man as well as Hank Pym. If you like either of these characters, I highly [...]
As some of you may remember, I’m a big Alpha Flight fan. Yes, they are the laughing stock of the Marvel superhero jet-set, but I still love them. Thanks to Rob over at The Aquaman Shrine, I stumbled across this series of Alpha Flight comic strips by James Duncan. They are hilarious! Below I’ve presented [...]
Looking for some good clean superhero fun? Then give the Power Pack digests a try! If you’re not familiar with Power Pack, they are a team of super-powered siblings ranging in age from 5 to 12. They first appeared in 1984, but Marvel started a new series of adventures five years ago featuring Power Pack [...]
I can’t explain it, but I’ve been infected with Bronze Age Marvel Madness! I’m loving old Marvel comics from the Bronze Age! This is surprising because I’m predominantly a post-Crisis DC guy (or Tween-Crisis DC guy to be exact). The Bronze Age is often defined as mainstream comics published from 1970 to 1985. Growing up [...]
Do you love the old Star Wars comics from Marvel? Then you need to check out Two True Freaks Star Wars Monthly Mondays! Hosts Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell were kind enough to invite me to join them for Star Wars Monthly Monday #24 (Two True Freaks episode #144). In this episode we’re joined by [...]
I was totally overwhelmed and touched by all the birthday wishes I received last week! My thanks to all of you that sent messages through Facebook, ultimately bringing the social networking goliath to its knees on Thursday. I was on the road for work on my actual birthday, but I was able to catch dinner [...]
Today I felt like spotlighting some of Alex Ross’ gorgeous Marvel work. Enjoy! Secret Wars Marvel Encyclopedia (click to enlarge) Spider-Man Green Goblin Assemble (click to enlarge) Visions: Iron Man First Avengers Marvel 1970s (click to enlarge) Uncanny X-Men #500 (click to enlarge) New Mutants #1 Mighty Marvel Heroes & Villains – This one is [...]
That’s right, True Believers… I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World! Let all beware! (Well… maybe my mom unleashed Shag upon the world. There’s probably a pretty good, “your momma” joke in there somewhere.) What a great splash page! I love it! It was drawn by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers and appeared in Journey into [...]
Welcome back to the final installment of ART ADAMS DAYS (at least for now)! Today we’ll be looking at a random collection of Arthur Adams work. I should point out that Art Adams is considered a fan-favorite artist on characters like Godzilla, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Gumby. I don’t have any drawings [...]
