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...Dragon*Con was four days of zany geekiness with 30,000 of my closest friends. Today kicks off my recap of celebrities, costumes, events, friends, swag and more! While I’ll cover a lot, this is only a fraction of what took place during Dragon*Con 2009. At certain times, there were as many as 50 different simultaneous sessions [...]
In case you missed it yesterday, there was an awesome crossover between fourteen different blogs celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kenner’s Super Powers Collection. In fact, it was so well received that other blogs joined in! Check these sites out: Michael over at The Legion Omnicom jumped in with both feet and did his own [...]
John Ostrander has written some of the greatest comics produced in the last 20 years. Some of his best known work includes: Suicide Squad, Star Wars Legacy, The Spectre, Legends, Grimjack, The Kents, Hawkworld, Martian Manhunter, Eternal Warrior, Magnus Robot Fighter, Manhunter, Firestorm, and the list goes on and on. John has been battling glaucoma [...]
Thanks once again to everyone that stopped by during BLUE DEVIL WEEK here at Once Upon a Geek. Based upon feedback I’ve received, quite a few people have enjoyed the Dan Mishkin & Gary Cohn interview. I’m thrilled to hear that! Keep your comments coming! There were a couple images I’ve presented previously that I [...]
Nothing new here at ONCE UPON A GEEK today, but you should really check out my new Firestorm pint glass over at today’s FIRESTORM FAN post. It’s super cool. Besides the Firestorm pint glass, Toon Tumblers also produces a ton of other Marvel and DC pint glasses. All the glasses are designed in the spirit [...]
Because apparently I don’t spend enough time blogging already, I’ve started another blog! FIRESTORM FAN – A blog dedicated to DC Comics Nuclear Man – Firestorm! You can find it at http://firestormfan.com/. I’ve been running ONCE UPON A GEEK for nearly a year now. While I love blogging about anything and everything geeky, I wanted to start another [...]
While I was in Colorado shopping for my new Netbook, I stumbled across these awesome DC Comics Sleep Pants! I simply had to have them as I can never have too many sleep pants, and I’ll buy just about anything with Aquaman on it. The art features some great Bronze Age images of DC heroes; [...]
SUNDAY Sunday was a nice and easy day as compared to Saturday. There weren’t a whole bunch of panels I was anxious to see that day, and ultimately ended up not attending any panels. Instead I spent a whole bunch of time going through the Dealer Room’s, Exhibitor Room, the Celebrity Walk of Fame, and taking [...]
I’ve been trying to get my hands on two action figures lately. They came out a few months ago from Mattel in their line of DC Universe Classics (Wave 2). This is the brand of figures that are now carried in stores like Target. The action figure scuplts are surprisingly good for distribution in regular stores. Personally, [...]
