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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 picked up BOOM! Studios’ Soldier Zero #1 upon the recommendation of an acquaintance. I wasn’t expecting much from the comic but found myself pleasantly surprised. Apparently this book has broken all sales records for BOOM! Studios, making it their best-selling comic ever. The story was written by Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Action Comics) with […]
This year on Halloween I’ll be giving out comic books in addition to candy! Normally I give each trick-or-treater at least two pieces of candy. On this October 31st each costumed visitor to our house will receive some candy plus one mini-comic – either Archie, Toy Story or Smurfs! Back in July, Diamond Comics Distributors […]
While on the cruise, I finally got around to reading the Eureka graphic novel from BOOM! Studios. I was pretty exited to see the story was by the Eureka TV show creators Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia. That tells you right away that it’ll be faithful to the series. In interviews the creators have referred […]
Seems like I’ve picked up several trades in the past few weeks. When the heck am I going to find the time to read them all, on top of my normal monthly pull of single issues?!?!?! I’ll make the time somehow, all of these look really good. Eureka – I love me some Eureka! And […]
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “E”, as in “Erika”. Because Erika (from I Don’t Read My Blog Either) chastised me for not blogging about this sooner. You should be reading Irredeemable the comic book from BOOM! Studios! What a fun ride! Writer Mark Waid is really banging out an interesting story, […]
Coming this April from BOOM! Studios, Mark Waid writes a new comic entitled, Irredeemable. Seriously? I wasn’t consulted about this. I’m not sure who should be more offended — me or Robert Kirkman. All kidding aside, this looks like an interesting read. I know I’ll be getting it. If nothing else but to check for […]
