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!
I figure most people saw this last week as it made it’s rounds on the interwebs. In case you missed it, here is the trailer to Marvel Comics’ feature film The Avengers made in 1952!
If you can’t see the embedded video above, please click here.
My thanks to Ed for directing me to this. For details on Ivan Guererro’s production of this “pre-make” trailer, click here.
Yesterday we featured some awesome Batman imaginary team-ups. The creator of those team-ups is working on a new similar project for Marvel Two-in-One. He doesn’t have a site for them yet, but watch for it in the coming months. Check out these preliminary covers!
Found via Bleeding Cool.
A few weeks ago, I shared an unlikely Brave and the Bold team-up comic cover. Turns out there is another gentlemen named Ross that runs a site dedicated to Brave and the Bold Batman team-ups that never happened. Click here to visit The Brave and the Bold… The Lost Issues! The amazing thing is that he does all of these covers using only MS Paint! Wow!
Today I’m featuring a handful of covers from that site. Some are not surprising and some are outright bizarre. Enjoy!
If you enjoyed these, be sure to visit The Brave and the Bold… The Lost Issues! Come back tomorrow for some more team-ups that should have been!
My good buddy Ed started a really interesting discussion topic over on THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv – Who are your favorite Doctor Who companions? I’ve put together my list broken into three categories: current series, classic series, and expanded universe. As a frame of reference, click here for a list of all companions on Doctor Who.
Here are my favorite companions in preference order from the current television series:
Here are my top ten favorite companions from the classic series. There are nearly 30 classic series companions to choose from. One character that would probably have been my top choice, but never actually traveled with the Doctor was Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. He was absolutely brilliant, but was never really a companion.
I’m probably one of the few people to care about this category. There have been around 80 companions in the various expanded universe stories (i.e. Big Finish audios and books; Doctor Who Magazine comic strip; original novels by Virgin, BBC, and Telos; other comic strips over the years, and more). Here are two links to lists of expanded universe companions for reference:
Here are my top ten favorite expanded universe companions:
Honorable Mention: Wolsey the cat (Virgin novels – 7th Doctor)
Great topic! I really enjoyed the exercise of compiling these lists. Who are your favorite Doctor Who companions? Post your thoughts over on THE UNIQUE GEEK or comment here! Let us know!
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 with the foresight that Dack has mere minutes of screen time until his death.
I was in Target last week and came across this amazingly cool Dack figure! I had no idea they’d finally produced a figure for this hero to expendable pilots everywhere! It’s even on retro-packaging, including the “Free Boba Fett” offer! So very cool.
Here is Dack’s other well known line:
“Luke, we’ve got a malfunction in fire control. I’ll have to cut in the auxiliary.”
So, what can we learn from Dack? If you ever have a problem with “fire control” while flying, get the hell out ASAP!
Click the image to enlarge. You can see the detail better that way.
A very interesting project over at “These Are Their Stories“. This piece was called “Race Becomes an Issue”. Here is the description of the project on their website:
For twenty years, the heroes of “Law & Order” have navigated literally hundreds grotesque tragedies, moral quandries, and improbable crimes.
Each piece is an artist’s interpretation of a one-line episode summary from the DirecTV program guide (full list of titles artists could pick from). Like the series that inspired them, they are sometimes straightforward and sometimes offer a twist; sometimes they contain no easy answers, and sometimes they are just plain goofy.
I’m still trying to figure out if the daughter, Lynn, is running in fear or cooperating with the SWAT team. Hmmm…
My thanks to Ravenface for directing me to this.
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 on Ivan Guererro’s production of this “pre-make” trailer, click here.
About a year and a half ago I posted a Doctor Who fan-made anime trailer that was a work-in-progress. Well, they finished it and it’s gorgeous! I’m not much of a fan of anime, but this video is full of awesome. You should watch it.
If you can’t view the embedded video above, please click here.
My thanks to Ed who pointed me to this.
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 DragonCon 2010. They’ve got podcasts, interviews with track directors, tips for the con, editorials, and pictures from previous years. Be sure to check it out and subscribe to their RSS feed.
Here are just a small handful of my pictures from previous Dragon*Cons. Each year I typically take about 400 pictures of celebrities, friends, costumes, and generally interesting stuff. To see all my uploaded pictures, check out the ONCE UPON A GEEK Flickr gallery.
Patrick Stewart
The cast of Stargate Atlantis
Brent Spiner – Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation
James Marsters of Buffy, Angel, and Torchwood
Peter David – writer of comics and Star Trek novels
Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica, Burn Notice, Chuck, Victoria Secret and more! Oh yeah, I’m in the picture too.
Adam Baldwin from Firefly and Chuck! Also in the picture is our good friend Ed!
Erik Estrada from everything awesome, with Shag and Serv!
Alan Ruck from Spin City, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Star Trek: Generations, and more!
Dirk Benedict from Battlestar Galactica and the A-Team!
George Perez, artist extraordinaire of Crisis on Infinite Earths, New Teen Titans, Infinity Gauntlet, Avengers, and much much more!
And of course there are the zillions of fan costumes! Here just a handful from 2009…
And finally, Serv, Terry, and myself pimping ONCE UPON A GEEK at 4am! Promotion much never stop!
If you are going to Dragon*Con, drop me a comment or e-mail. We know somewhere around two dozen people going. The more the merrier! The con is always better with friends!
Awesome light painting featuring a Dalek!
Also, check out this freakin’ amazing light painting video below. Nothing to do with Daleks, but still really cool!
If you can’t view the embedded video above, please click here. Thanks to my buddy Adam for sending me both of these!
