A place for all things geek... ONCE UPON A GEEK is a Monday-Friday blog that focuses on a variety of geeky topics, including: comic books, Doctor Who, Star Wars (classic and legacy characters), role-playing, 80’s TV shows, and science fiction in general. However, any topic is really fair game. Don't forget to share your thoughts by adding comments!
Folks, I owe a tremendous thanks to my fellow blogger, Scraps! I was experiencing a problem with my new WordPress theme that I simply couldn’t fix myself. She offered her assistance and worked through the code with me. She found the bug and told me exactly how to fix it. THANK YOU SCRAPS! You’re my [...]
Welcome to ONCE UPON A GEEK’s part of the Crisis on Earth-Blog: The DC Challenge! ONCE UPON A GEEK is a blog that focuses on a variety of geeky topics, including: comic books, Doctor Who, Star Wars, role-playing, 80’s TV shows, and science fiction in general. If this is your first time here, welcome aboard! [...]
I want to send a huge THANKS to Tommy from the Bat-Blog! He was kind enough to give my other blog, FIRESTORM FAN, a shout-out last week. That was super-cool of him! If you’ve never checked out the Bat-Blog, you should swing by and take a look. Tommy does a phenomenal job covering all things [...]
You should be reading Girls Gone Geek, a new blog that bills itself as “Cheeky, Geeky, and Anatomically Correct”. A couple friends of mine, Vanessa G. and E. Peterman have put their brilliant and geeky minds together to create this new blog. Their aim is to provide geek commentary, from a woman’s point of view. [...]
The Helmet of Nabu informs me that you’re wrong, mere mortal. How about you check out some of the other blogs participating in this crossover instead. You’ll have to work your way through a few of these challenges if you want to reach the goal-page featuring a lush scan from an obscure George Pérez pin-up [...]
A big THANK YOU to the readers of this blog! I sincerely appreciate that you take time out of your day to read my ramblings. I want to make it convenient for you to keep up with ONCE UPON A GEEK. Therefore, I’ve recently added a couple more ways to get the posts. [...]
Kids Read Comics! A very true statement, however, not as many kids are reading comics today as were when we grew up. Ask yourself, do you encourage kids in your life (your children, nephews, nieces, friend’s kids, neighbors, etc) to read comics? If the answer is no, then you may want to start thinking about [...]
From Alert Nerd Press: My Scott and Jean: The Master List It all started with a simple phrase: “That’s my Scott and Jean.” Said phrase was uttered by friend-of-Alert-Nerd Dan Faust on that bastion of 140-character social networking, Twitter. And said phrase means, essentially, “That is my geek sacred cow, the one topic I cannot [...]
I’m a Mountain Dew addict. If you’re a geek, then it’s quite possible that you are too. It just tastes so friggin’ good. And the mega-jolt of caffeine is perfect for those late night gaming sessions, web surfing, comic book reading … or really just about anything. I tried swearing off the stuff for a [...]
You can now find ONCE UPON A GEEK on Twitter. Clearly I was brainwashed this week by listening to all those presentations about social networking. If you asked me a week ago, I would have said I thought Twitter was pointless. After hearing a presentation on how to use Twitter productively, I’m willing to give [...]
