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...Dack from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back has taken on near-mythical status with geeks. When we first meet Dack he demonstrates his boundless enthusiasm with the line: “Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself!” As someone that’s watched the film a few times, this line is quite sad [...]
Holy Crud! I didn’t realize Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was a remake of an old 1950s 3-D film! Who knew?!?!? Check out the trailer below for the original. If you can’t see the embedded video above, please click here. Thanks to my good friend Billy Penn for sending this my way. For details [...]
You may have noticed the countdown timer in the upper-right hand corner of ONCE UPON A GEEK. This is counting down my arrival at Dragon*Con 2010! We’re about 28 days away and it can’t get here soon enough! Over on THE UNIQUE GEEK, they’re doing their own version of a countdown called 40 Days Of [...]
As mentioned yesterday, I was a big fan of comic-related pins in the late-80s and through the mid-90s. Yesterday we featured pins from DC Comics, today we’re going to feature pins from Marvel Comics, independent comic companies, movies, and TV. Thankfully comic companies were generous with giveaway pins and also sold some nice quality cloisonne [...]
Lando’s Love Lessons: Eight Simple Rules for Getting Galactic Tail Found on EgoTV
Here are some fun Iron Man mash-ups I’ve seen lately… My thanks to Cary from THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv for directing me to the R2-D2 and Cyberman mash-ups!
I hope all the geek-dads out there had an awesome Father’s Day! Mine was fantastic and lasted the whole weekend! Had some good solid family time, got to wander the aisles of a bookstore at my own pace (one of my favorite things to do!), ate an enormous Sonny’s BBQ feast for dinner Saturday, watched [...]
I spend a lot of time reading to my children. I’ve often said to them, when you read a book the pictures come alive and move in your mind. Well, for the first time I can read my children a book where the pictures really do move in the book itself! Star Wars A Scanimation [...]
Remember VH1′s Pop-Up Videos? Can you imagine a Pop-Up Video for Empire Strikes Back? Well, someone else did. Building Empire is an amazing fan-made film providing tons of behind the scenes facts about Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. For example, have you ever heard about the abandoned Wampa attack subplot in Empire? It’s covered [...]
In addition to blogging about comics this past week, I actually read some too! I’ve literally got stacks and stacks of comics I’m behind on reading. I got through over 60 comics and two digest this past week. For some reason I had a hankerin’ for Marvel, so many of these are Siege and X-related. [...]
