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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...They’ve finally managed to produce a Kyle Rayner Green Lantern action figure that doesn’t suck. Check it out. Admittedly, this figure is more muscle-bound than Kyle truly is. Y’know what? It doesn’t matter, this figure just looks awesome! The previous Kyle figures have been very disappointing. Click here to see a few of the previous […]
I recently participated in a team-up between my Firestorm blog and a friend’s Green Arrow blog. That inspired me to dig out the various Green Arrow action figures I own. There are TONS of Green Arrow action figures out there. Click here to see how many come up on Google Images if you don’t believe […]
I got my Blue Devil DC Direct action figure a couple weeks ago, but this is the first chance I’ve had to write about it. The figure looks great! Below you’ve got a picture of the Blue Devil packaging. This figure is part of the History of the DC Universe series of figures, all based […]
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 […]
Dude, I’m totally jazzed! It’s just been announced that DC Direct will be producing a Blue Devil action figure! That’s right, because I demanded it! Yup, just me. I can’t imagine anyone else besides me has been clamoring for this. Blue Devil just so happens to be one of my top five favorite superheroes of […]
I love me some JLA & JSA. In fact, I’ve been building a DC Direct action figure collection of these two teams for years. After seeing my buddy Michael Bailey (Views from the Longbox & Fortress of Baileytude) post some pics of his figures, I thought I would take you on a tour of some of […]
