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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...Last night DC Comics revealed Wonder Woman’s new duds starting in this week’s issue #600. The new look was designed by Jim Lee. They’ve kept the lasso, magic bracelets, and tiara, but the long-standing bathing suit is gone. The new costume also comes with a re-write of her origin by J. Michael Straczynski. For the […]
Lando’s Love Lessons: Eight Simple Rules for Getting Galactic Tail Found on EgoTV
Here is a fun comic-related song by the band Kirby Krackle. Great name! This song is called “Ring Capacity” and is Green Lantern-centric. This isn’t an official video, the music is really what I’m pointing out. If you can’t view the embedded video above, please click here. (Lyrics) I’m flying through the cold of space […]
Here are some fun Iron Man mash-ups I’ve seen lately… My thanks to Cary from THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv for directing me to the R2-D2 and Cyberman mash-ups!
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 […]
Back on May 3rd, Green Ronin announced they’re working on a DC Comics roleplaying game based upon their Mutants & Masterminds system. Here is a snippet from the press release: Green Ronin Publishing announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with DC Comics and will be releasing the DC ADVENTURES RPG book this […]
I hope all the geek-dads out there had an awesome Father’s Day! Mine was fantastic and lasted the whole weekend! Had some good solid family time, got to wander the aisles of a bookstore at my own pace (one of my favorite things to do!), ate an enormous Sonny’s BBQ feast for dinner Saturday, watched […]
I spend a lot of time reading to my children. I’ve often said to them, when you read a book the pictures come alive and move in your mind. Well, for the first time I can read my children a book where the pictures really do move in the book itself! Star Wars A Scanimation […]
If you haven’t already, you gotta check out NEIGHBORS FROM HELL! It’s a new animated series on TBS from the producers of Family Guy and South Park. There is some great voice work by folks like Patton Oswald, Molly Shannon, and Will Sasso. It’s a riot, but definitely not for the kiddies. The series is […]
Sorry… no post today. Too busy playing with our new phones! My wife got the Samsung Reality and I got the LG EnV Touch. We got them for a song through Verizon! See you tomorrow!
