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’m sure I’m the last geek to the party on this one, but I finally got around to watching some of The Guild. If you’re not familiar with it, The Guild is an independent sitcom web series about a group of online gamers. It stars Felicia Day, who also created the series and writes it. [...]
Here is a Dungeons & Dragons advertisement that ran in comic books in mid-1981. The lack of color, amateur artwork, inconsistent lettering, and ridiculous scripting is appalling. This ad is simply terrible. With that said.. I LOVE IT! This pathetic little ad inspired me to try roleplaying and seek out further comic adventures of these [...]
Coverage of Dragon*Con 2009 continues here! To read about Friday, click here. If you’d like to see over 600 pictures I took at the event, you can view them on Flickr and THE UNIQUE GEEK photo gallery. Saturday After the WAR OF THE SNORE the night before, Choco Taco and I decided to grab some [...]
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 [...]
One Week Until Dragon*Con 2009!!! ‘Nuff Said.
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 [...]
We’ve got a very special treat today… our first guest blogger! I’m pleased to present today’s ONCE UPON A GEEK Special Correspondent, my wife, The Irrepressible Gena! Just a little background for you, my wife is not a geek. She’s a wonderful (and gorgeous) normal person. So I thought her perspective would be interesting to [...]
You may have heard that ABC is developing Bill Willingham’s DC comic ‘Fables’ for television. If you have not, you can read about it by clicking here. Here is the first commercial. Enjoy!
LIST WEEK continues here at ONCE UPON A GEEK! Today’s list comes from the Telegraph newspaper and is ‘The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature‘. My thanks to my buddy ‘lessthan12parsecs’ for posting this list to THE UNIQUE GEEK. These literary villains hail from a variety of places, but there are definitely some folks with geek-cred [...]
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 [...]
