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FW Presents: Avengers Fantasy Draft 2025

September 27, 2025

You asked for it – you got it! Another all-star fantasy draft special – this time starring The Avengers!  Join the Irredeemable Shag, Brett Young, Sean Ross, Ryan Daly, Tim Price, and Paul Kien as they select superheroes from the Marvel Universe to form their own Avengers team.

Reminder of the rules:

  • 7 member teams
  • Snake draft format
  • First round pick must be a version of Captain America, Thor, or Iron Man
  • Person is unique, not hero identity – both for legacy heroes and multiverse 
  • Vote for the team you would most want to read about every month and be eligible for the T-Shirt drawing from our Merch store!

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Avengers Theme composed by Alan Silvestri

Thanks for listening! Avengers Assemble!

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FW Presents: Avengers Draft Gallery

September 27, 2025

SPOILER ALERT – Listen to the episode before scrolling down to see visual representations of each of our teams.

Avengers Assemble!


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First up – Avengers by Ryan Daly!

Next – Brett Young!

Now Sean Ross!

Here is Tim Price’s team!

The Irredeemable Avengers!

And finally, the Cosmic Avengers by Paul Kien:

Once Upon A Geek - Back to the Future comics #1-4 from IDW (2015)

August 10, 2025

ONCE UPON A FLUX CAPACITOR!    

Henry Bernstein and The Irredeemable Shag find their joy in a flying DeLorean while discussing BACK THE FUTURE! We hit 88 mph as we race into the first 4 issues of the 2015 IDW comic! Plus, we discuss our love for the franchise and other expanded universe stories!

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Life is short. Focus on the positive. Find Your Joy.

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Peace Bound and Down - Wonder Woman Vol. 2, Issue 8

June 18, 2025

On this episode of Peace Bound and Down: A Wonder Woman Podcast, Sean is joined by Fire and Water Network all-star The Irredeemable Shag to discuss issue 8 of volume two of Wonder Woman. This is an unusual issue that demands an unusual format. Join in on the fun as Sean and Shag both review the issue and recommend a whole batch of awesome comics, books, TV shows, and movies. It’s the premiere (and possibly only appearance) of “Shag and Sean Recommend!”. 

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  • Promos: 
    • Marvel’s Star Wars: From Empire to Jedi 

Bringing a little to man’s world each month. 

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Once Upon A Geek - Blue Devil #5 (Oct 1984)

May 11, 2025

ONCE UPON A WEIRDNESS MAGNET – BLUE DEVIL #5!      

Our coverage of the classic 1980s BLUE DEVIL comic series continues with BLUE DEVIL #5 from October 1984! Diabolu Frank and The Irredeemable Shag find their joy alongside Dan Cassidy and Zatanna as they battle Nebiros and his horde of demons for control of Blue Devil’s trident! Finally, we wrap up with YOUR listener feedback and we fan-cast Nebiros!

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    • Bluesky: @diabolu.bsky.social
  • See Shag’s social media posts related to this episode:
    • Shag’s custom Blue Devil bound comics: https://x.com/onceuponageek/status/1770956835727585611
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Life is short. Focus on the positive. Find Your Joy.

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Once Upon A Geek - V UK: Visitation

March 09, 2025

ONCE UPON A VISITOR IN THE UK!      

Steven Boyd and The Irredeemable Shag find their joy discussing V UK: VISITATION!  This brand-new audio drama by Big Finish Productions faithfully adapts Kenneth Johnson’s original “V” mini-series! As life-long fans of “V”, we discuss our love for the original “V”, and then dig into this new audio adaptation! Finally, Shag covers YOUR listener feedback from the past few episodes!

  • 00:00:30 – Introductions
  • 00:02:45 – Steven’s origin story with “V”
  • 00:12:23 – V: The Original Mini-Series (1983) history
  • 00:14:50 – V UK: Visitation – our thoughts on the production, adaptation, and casting
  • 00:34:48 – Steven’s story about meeting Kenneth Johnson
  • 00:42:30 – V UK: Visitation SPOILERS start here
  • 00:51:00 – Your listener feedback from the past few episodes
  • 01:42:00 – Sign off

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Life is short. Focus on the positive. Find Your Joy… and V for Victory. 

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Once Upon A Geek - Doctor Who Lucie Miller and 2025 Gallifrey One Pregame

February 09, 2025

ONCE UPON A TIMELORD – LUCIE MILLER AND GALLIFREY ONE PREGAME     

David “Ace” Gutiérrez and The Irredeemable Shag find their joy discussing Doctor Who, specifically our favorite Eighth Doctor companions, Big Finish audio dramas featuring Lucie Miller, and they do some pregaming for next week’s GALLIFREY ONE convention in Los Angeles!

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Life is short. Focus on the positive. Find Your Joy.

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Once Upon A Geek - Uncanny X-Men #190-191 (1985)

January 12, 2025

ONCE UPON A MUTANT – UNCANNY X-MEN #190-191     

Chris Pine and The Irredeemable Shag find their joy discussing classic UNCANNY X-MEN comics and favorite eras! Then we follow our favorite Mutants into NYC turned barbarian battleground with Uncanny X-Men #190-191 written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by John Romita Jr & Dan Green!

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Life is short. Focus on the positive. Find Your Joy.

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Once Upon A Geek - Blue Devil #4 and DC Sampler #2

December 15, 2024

ONCE UPON A BLUE DEVIL – BLUE DEVIL #4!      

Our coverage of the classic 1980s BLUE DEVIL comic series continues with BLUE DEVIL #4, plus the Blue Devil pages from DC SAMPLER #2, both cover dated September 1984! Diabolu Frank and The Irredeemable Shag find their joy alongside Dan Cassidy as he arm wrestles Superman, flirts with Zatanna, and comes face-to-face with Nebiros again! Finally, we wrap up with YOUR listener feedback and we fan-cast Sharon Scott!

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    • Bluesky: @diabolu.bsky.social
  • See Shag’s social media posts related to this episode:
    • Shag’s custom Blue Devil bound comics: https://x.com/onceuponageek/status/1770956835727585611
    • Twitter/X: https://x.com/search?q=from%3Aonceuponageek+%23OUAG27&src=typed_query&f=live
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Life is short. Focus on the positive. Find Your Joy.

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FW Team-Up: Spider-Man/Nomad Supplemental

July 23, 2024

Here are the relevant images from this episode of FW Team-Up!
Highlights from Marvel Team-Up #146 by Cary Burkett, Greg Larocque and Mike Esposito:

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