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onceuponageek.bsky.social
Irredeemable Shag
@onceuponageek.bsky.social
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Podcaster celebrating sci-fi, comics & nostalgia-fueled ideas • Co-Founder of the Fire & Water Podcast Network • Life is short. Focus on the positive. Find Your Joy.

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Irredeemable Shag @onceuponageek.bsky.social · Oct 12
New ONCE UPON A GEEK PODCAST now available! Our 1980s BLUE DEVIL comic coverage continues! Shag & @diabolu.bsky.social find their joy in Las Vegas alongside Dan Cassidy and Norm the cameraman! It's weirdness and chaos in Sin City in BLUE DEVIL #6! #ouag33
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Does Homer's epic survive Hollywood? Dear Reader, Season 3: Episode 08: Swords and Sandals is out now!
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November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I’m a guest on the latest FW TEAM UP discussing #Spiderman and the #XMen from MARVEL TEAM-UP #150! Had a blast with @siskoid.bsky.social !!
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Played #TravellerRPG on 2025-11-23

Session 17
143-1105 (0117 Local Time)

The exploration of the mysterious Calendula continued, with assaults from a six armed primate, an Astrogator, and a surviving scientist!

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November 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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SBG/FW Team-Up: Spider-Man and the X-Men
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Siskoid and @onceuponageek.bsky.social cover Marvel Team-Up #150!
FW Team-Up: Spider-Man and the X-Men
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November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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FW Team-Up: Spider-Man and the X-Men
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@siskoid.bsky.social and @onceuponageek.bsky.social cover Marvel Team-Up #150!
FW Team-Up: Spider-Man and the X-Men - The Fire and Water Network
Siskoid the Irredeemable Shag's coverage of Marvel Team-Up continues with issue #150 (February 1985) by Louise Simonson, Greg LaRocque and Mike Esposito, starring Spider-Man and the Uncanny X-Men! It'...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Cheers Cast 9.01: “Bad Neighbor Sam” hosted by @ryandaly.bsky.social
with guest @robkellycreative.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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WHO'S WHO REVIEW PODCAST returns! @onceuponageekpodcast and @robkellycreative use the randomizer with the original WHO'S WHO series & take a fresh look at classic entries! Including Elasti-Girl, Captain Boomerang, Animal Man, Power Girl, Doctor Light, Scavenger, & more!
August 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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WHO'S WHO REVIEW PODCAST returns! @onceuponageekpodcast and @robkellycreative use the randomizer with the original WHO'S WHO series & take a fresh look at classic entries! Including Elasti-Girl, Captain Boomerang, Animal Man, Power Girl, Doctor Light, Scavenger, & more!
August 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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WHO'S WHO REVIEW PODCAST returns! @onceuponageekpodcast and @robkellycreative use the randomizer with the original WHO'S WHO series & take a fresh look at classic entries! Including Elasti-Girl, Captain Boomerang, Animal Man, Power Girl, Doctor Light, Scavenger, & more!
August 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Who's Who - The Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe
Visual Arts Podcast · Hosted by Rob Kelly and The Irredeemable Shag, this podcast honors the classic DC Comics series WHO'S WHO: THE DEFINITIVE DIRECTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE from the 80s and 90s, one p...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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As a fan of both the Global Guardians and Quislet, I encourage you to jump into the Supermobile and take a listen to the latest episode of Who's Who Review featuring Rob and Shagg. It's more fun than hurling your own body like Captain Boomerang! 🤣
August 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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With the side mention of Richard Dragon in the episode, check out this sly appearance of Digger Harkness in #18 issue from the 70s.
September 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Fun Fact: The Supermobile appeared on Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon as the Lex-Soar-7!

Okay, it wasn't named that...
A scene from the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode,“Battle of the Super-heroes,” featuring Luthor’s attack vehicle, while has the same design as the comic book Supermobile (complete with robotic arms, which punch Superman out of the shot) but painted in Luthor's green-and-purple color scheme.
August 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Fun Fact: WEATHER WIZARD has been a TV star since 1978! He was one of the villains in the Legends of the Super-Heroes live action specials produced by Hanna Barbera. He was played by comedian Jeff Altman, whose other claim to fame was his co-starring role in the Krofft variety show Pink Lady…
Comedian Jeff Altman as the Weather Wizard, from the Legends of the Super-Heroes live action specials produced by Hanna Barbera in 1978.
August 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Fun Fact: Two of the surprint images in the Power Girl entry are based on scenes in Showcase #98 and #99.
Power Girl is trapped within the symbioship in a scene from Showcase #98. Power Girl smashes robotic walking tanks, piloted by Brain Wave's henchmen, in Showcase #99.
August 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Fun fact: In the lower surprint image of the Elastigirl entry, Rita is not climbing out of a mysterious "vehicle" but out of the ear of Robotman’s head, which was a scene from page 22 of the first Doom Patrol story in My Greatest Adventure #80.
A tiny Rita Farr climbs out of the ear of Robotman’s head, from page 22 of My Greatest Adventure #80.
August 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Fun Fact: CLUEMASTER’s “logo” is from the lettering from the title of his first appearance story, “The Cluemaster’s Topsy-Turvy Crimes”, in Detective Comics v1 #351. It was on page 7 of that story when Robin exclaimed, “Man, that Cluemaster’s a walking utility belt!”
The first page of “The Cluemaster’s Topsy-Turvy Crimes”, from Detective Comics v1 #351. The lettering of "Clemaster in the title copy was used for his "logo" in his DC Comics Who's Who entry. From page 7 of the Cluemaster story in Detective Comics v1 #351. While Batman and Robin are being overwhelmed by Cluemaster's gas bombs, the boy wonder exclaims, "Man, that Cluemaster's a walking utility belt!"
August 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Fun Fact: CAPTAIN BOOMERANG displayed his ability to become a “human boomerang” once in The Flash v1 #227.
In a scene from THE FLASH 227, the Flash knocks Captain Boomerang through the air with super-speed wind gusts, but Boomerang stiffens his body and bends his waist forward in the shape of a boomerang, with somehow makes his body aerodynamic and spin back at the Flash... The Flash is caught off-guard by the "human boomerang" trick, so Capt. Boomerang manages to collide with the speedster and knock him out.
August 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Who's Hot and Who's Not? Ep.25: Chronos to Claw
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A time-themed villain. A cowgirl ninja. A sorceress out of Homer. Vega's autocrats. A warrior with a demon hand. The Hot Squad makes the call. w/ @siskoid.bsky.social
Who’s Hot and Who’s Not? Ep.25: Chronos to Claw - The Fire and Water Network
A time-themed villain. A cowgirl ninja. A sorceress out of Homer. Vega's autocrats. A warrior with a demon hand. Which are hot, which are not? The Girls of the Hot Squad begins its evaluation of Who's...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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ICYMI… make the jump to hyperspace as we discuss Marvel #STARWARS #46! Lando & Chewie cross paths with a Rebel legend turned pacifist cult leader... but what happens when the Empire arrives? Don't miss MARVEL STAR WARS: FROM EMPIRE TO JEDI!

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November 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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ICYMI… make the jump to hyperspace as we discuss Marvel #STARWARS #46! Lando & Chewie cross paths with a Rebel legend turned pacifist cult leader... but what happens when the Empire arrives? Don't miss MARVEL STAR WARS: FROM EMPIRE TO JEDI!

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November 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Now Available, make the jump to hyperspace as we discuss Marvel #STARWARS #46! Lando & Chewie cross paths with a Rebel legend turned pacifist cult leader... but what happens when the Empire arrives? Don't miss MARVEL STAR WARS: FROM EMPIRE TO JEDI!

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November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Check out Cody Sunn-Childe from Marvel #STARWARS #46, Cody's Monster-Brothers, and a fantastical space city! Could these pages look any more Carmine Infantino?!? We break it down on EMPIRE TO JEDI! #starwarspodcast

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November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Another highlight from last month’s Baltimore Comic Con… chatting with the talented @chrisgiarrusso.bsky.social! He drew this astonishing Blue Devil sketch for me, and I picked up some of his G-Man collections! Absolutely love his art style!!
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Now Available! Our journey through Marvel #StarWars comics continues with STAR WARS #46! @writerjimbeard.bsky.social & Shag dive into "The Dreams of Cody Sunn-Childe" from 1981 by JM DeMatteis & Carmine Infantino! #starwarspodcast #marvelstarwars

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November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM