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...If you know me, then you know I love the TV show “Chuck”. I didn’t watch much TV last season, but I sure as hell didn’t miss an episode of “Chuck”. Funny, action-oriented, clever, geeky, and a beautiful Australian blond. That’s a recipe for awesome. The good news is that the season premiere of “Chuck” [...]
Hey gang – Over 400 of my DragonCon 2008 pictures are now online! You can view them on my Flickr account, ”Once Upon a Geek”, in the set labeled “DragonCon 2008″. Or simply visit the site by clicking here. You can download these to your computer in a variety of sizes; most go as big as 1280×960. Additionally, you can [...]
The good news is that I survived DragonCon. The bad news is that I’m having trouble re-acclimatizing to regular life. After being completely immersed in geekdom for four straight days, it’s a little hard to suddenly be transported from the wild to “civilized” society. I had a fantastic time! This was definitely one of the [...]
I went to the comic shop on Monday to pick up the past two weeks worth of stuff. I was pretty shocked to find so many big books waiting for me. I knew I had ordered them, but for all of these to come in within such a short period of time – Yikes! When [...]
I recently read the trade paperback of Sean Wang’s “Runners”. Wow, this was a great sci-fi comic! The story chronicles the misadventures of reluctant smuggler Roka Nostaco and his ragtag alien crew as they struggle to complete hazardous runs through outlaw space and against all odds. I agree completely with James Mishler’s review from Comic [...]
A few weeks back I wrote a blog post on a book I was reading, ”Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils”. It was an older book that was published back in 1991, but I read it to tide me over until I got around to seeing “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull”. Well, I finished this book and [...]
Other than the Doctor Who dynasty of shows, I don’t watch much television. However, there is one new show that I have totally fallen for in the past year… “Chuck” on NBC. The show is about a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government’s most vital secret. With the government’s [...]
A while back, I wrote a blog post about the upcoming Indiana Jones comic digest. Well… it came out this past Wednesday. Now go buy it!
I finally saw “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. I liked it. Yup, I’m one of the few geeks I know that actually enjoyed the movie. Now, I have to admit that I was probably not impartial going in. I’d read quite a bit of spoilers, so I was much better prepared [...]
I just started reading “Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils“, a novel by Rob MacGregor. Given my current work schedule and chasing around after my kids, I haven’t had a chance to see ”Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” yet. I’ve heard a lot of negative things about the new movie, so I [...]
