A place for all things geek... ONCE UPON A GEEK is a 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!
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...I recently had another opportunity to interview Gerry Conway, comics and TV legend! This time Michael Bailey (from the Views from the Longbox podcast) and I interviewed Gerry together. Gerry was extraordinarily generous with his time sitting down with us for about two hours. What a great guy! Previously I interviewed Gerry about Firestorm, a [...]
Join Michael Bailey and me this Sunday, January 17, around 10:30pm EST as we celebrate the 100th episode of the VIEWS FROM THE LONGBOX podcast! We’ll be taking live callers through Skype so you can be part of the celebration. It’ll pretty much be an open floor, so callers could share their thoughts about the [...]
I’ve appeared on several podcasts in the past few months, but have been horribly negligent about giving them a shout-out here. These were all podcasts hosted by my good buddy Michael Bailey (of Views from the Longbox and From Crisis to Crisis). He’s been kind enough to invite me to participate a number of times, [...]
Assuming all is well with air travel, I should be in Atlanta this morning!!! Me and 30,000 of my closest friends all weekend long! Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US. It’s the 6th largest convention in the [...]
Just a heads-up, I appeared on a recent podcast of THE UNIQUE GEEK. This time out the crew was reviewing the zombie book World War Z by Max Brooks. On the podcast was Jon (The Unique Geek), Cary, Widge (NeedCoffee.com), Ron, and myself. I’m not normally a fan of zombie stories (unless we’re talking George [...]
BLUE DEVIL WEEK concludes here at ONCE UPON A GEEK… Today we’ve got a very special treat – the first creator interview from ONCE UPON A GEEK! Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn, creators of the DC comic book characters Blue Devil and Amethyst Princess of Gemworld, were kind enough to spend some time with Ravenface [...]
Michael Bailey (of the Views from the Longbox podcast) and I recently teamed-up to record our thoughts about Flash Rebirth #1 and the 1994 mini-series Zero Hour. Our Flash Rebirth #1 review went about 27 minutes and can be found by clicking here. For the next five months or so, we’ll be recording episodes to [...]
Over the last year, a few people have suggested I do a regular feature on upcoming comic books. While I love the idea of sharing my commentary on upcoming projects, typing all the things in my head would likely break my keyboard (and my fingers). So instead, I once again teamed-up with Michael Bailey to [...]
Back in July 2007, the gang from THE UNIQUE GEEK got together to discuss the Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. On the call was Jon, Patrick, Todd, Holly, Cary, Maria, Sterling, Michael Bailey, and myself. We discussed the themes, characters, and who is hotter – Dr. Manhatten or Night Owl. You [...]
Here are a few podcast recommendations for geeks everywhere… 2-in-1 SHOWCASE 2-in-1 Showcase episode #103 features Blake and Chase chatting about the king of the seven seas, DC’s Aquaman! The boys talk about the character’s various eras, best stories, how they’d fix him up and make him viable again, and why he gets less respect [...]
