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...Anyone else miss discount comic boxes? Remember when you’d go into a comic book store and troll through the 25 cent or 50 cent bins? I’d spend hours and hours pouring over those boxes trying to fill in collections or find new books to try. That’s where I found most of my Bronze Age gems [...]
Listen up folks! I recently appeared on an episode of VIEWS FROM THE LONGBOX! In this episode Michael Bailey and I discuss DC’s Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe. We cover everything Who’s Who related starting with the original 26 issue series and then getting into Update ’87, Update ’88, Who’s Who [...]
Blue Devil is coming to the Justice Society! Hot dog! Apparently new writer Marc Guggenheim is interested in expanding the team roster. According to this article on Comic Book Resources, it appears everybody’s favorite “weirdness magnet” is set to the join the team in just a couple weeks with Justice Society of America #46. Here [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you geeks here in the United States! For my international readers… sorry, our country is closed today for parade watching, massive turkey consumption, and tryptophan-induced comas. Come back tomorrow for the craziest shopping day of the year.
Okay, I haven’t read any Batman comics regularly in the past few years. I read Batman: RIP and didn’t care for it. Even though I’m a HUGE Tim Drake fan, I walked away from Robin once it became Red Robin. I’d simply had enough of the craziness in the Bat-verse and wasn’t interested in Grant [...]
The Green Lantern trailer is finally available! Okay, now discuss.
As some of you may remember, I’m a big Alpha Flight fan. Yes, they are the laughing stock of the Marvel superhero jet-set, but I still love them. Thanks to Rob over at The Aquaman Shrine, I stumbled across this series of Alpha Flight comic strips by James Duncan. They are hilarious! Below I’ve presented [...]
As I wrote earlier this week, Malibu’s Ultraverse was full of creativity and energy. I’ve come across an issue entitled Ultraverse Origins that was published eight months after the Ultraverse line launched. This book contains some good, succinct origin tales for many of the characters. Today I’m presenting just a handful of these origin stories. [...]
I’ve accumulated quite a few geek related keychains over the years. I seem to have a weakness for buying them even though I’ve only used a few of these keychains on a regular basis. Today we’re going to look at the ones I’ve managed to hang onto. Below are several DC Comics related keychains. The [...]
I picked up BOOM! Studios’ Soldier Zero #1 upon the recommendation of an acquaintance. I wasn’t expecting much from the comic but found myself pleasantly surprised. Apparently this book has broken all sales records for BOOM! Studios, making it their best-selling comic ever. The story was written by Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Action Comics) with [...]
