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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...My five year old daughter, we call her the Precocious Princess here, loves to dress up. Absolutely loves it! Whenever we’re in a store, she wants to try on all the costumes. After swapping superhero in-store-costume stories with my buddies C.T. from Nerd Lunch and Terry, I was inspired. When the Princess and I next […]
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down to watch The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes vol. 1 & 2 on DVD. The Avengers are one of my all-time favorite superhero teams. I have nearly 400 issues of Avengers comics, so I consider myself a reasonably dedicated fan. Iron Man and Iron Man 2 […]
The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes animated series comes out on DVD today from Walt Disney Studios! They’ve spread the first 13 action-packed episodes across two volumes. I’ve been an avid collector of Avengers comic books since the early 1990s. I love this team and I love these characters. The animated series really has an interesting […]
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 […]
Marvel launches their new Avengers animated series on Wednesday, October 20 on Disney XD! Here are a couple sneak-peek videos. Avengers promo (30 seconds) Ant-Man is cool! (6 minutes) For more information, visit the official website for the cartoon. My thanks to Van Allen Plexico for directing me towards these videos!
I figure most people saw this last week as it made it’s rounds on the interwebs. In case you missed it, here is the trailer to Marvel Comics’ feature film The Avengers made in 1952! If you can’t see the embedded video above, please click here. My thanks to Ed for directing me to this. […]
Siege will be over before we know it. With it brings the cancellation of all the current Avengers titles. Beginning in May, Marvel will relaunch the entire Avengers franchise with some big shake-ups. There will be several one-shots and mini-series, along with four ongoing books. I’ve outlined below what we know so far about the […]
It’s been a big week for me. Just got back from an amazing 7-day eastern Caribbean cruise. Probably the most fun vacation I’ve ever had. Unfortunately, I’m exhausted from the vacation so today will be very brief. While on the cruise I got to snorkel in some of the clearest, most beautiful water in the […]
Coverage of Dragon*Con 2009 continues here! I’ve already recapped Friday and Saturday, so today will cover Sunday and Monday. If you’d like to see over 600 pictures I took at the event, you can view them on Flickr and THE UNIQUE GEEK photo gallery. SUNDAY After going to sleep around 5am the night before, we […]
Welcome, mortal, to musical lamentations of Odinson! Here wilt thou learn about the heroic deed known as Headbanging! Thanks to NeedCoffee.com’s Ning for posting this brilliance!
