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!
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.
Back in the late-80s through the mid-90s I was a big fan of pins. I loved wearing pins on my shirts, especially those associated with comic books! Thankfully comic companies were generous with giveaway pins and also sold some nice quality cloisonne pins. Cloisonne pins are small decorative pins worn on the lapel of a [...]
Here is a fun comic-related song by the band Kirby Krackle. Great name! This song is called “Ring Capacity” and is Green Lantern-centric. This isn’t an official video, the music is really what I’m pointing out. If you can’t view the embedded video above, please click here. (Lyrics) I’m flying through the cold of space [...]
Blue Devil … on a Warner Bros. Consumer Products promotional poster? Seriously? Really? How friggin’ cool! The image below comes from License! Global which is gearing up for their big licensing show in Las Vegas next week. It was released along with some promo art for the upcoming Green Lantern film. Visit SuperHeroHype.com for further [...]
Yesterday we featured quite a few DC Comics posters. Today we’ll finish up the tour of the DC posters. The next couple days will focus on Star Wars and other geeky posters. Please feel free to share any of your favorite posters! Below is a World War II era poster of the Justice Society of [...]
They’ve finally managed to produce a Kyle Rayner Green Lantern action figure that doesn’t suck. Check it out. Admittedly, this figure is more muscle-bound than Kyle truly is. Y’know what? It doesn’t matter, this figure just looks awesome! The previous Kyle figures have been very disappointing. Click here to see a few of the previous [...]
I bought a DC Comics Snuggie?!?! First off, it’s not really a “Snuggie”, it’s a “Comfy Throw”. What does that mean? That means it’s a body-length blanket with sleeves made of fleece material; similar in design to a bathrobe that is worn backwards. Yeah, I know. That’s the definition of a “Snuggie”. This is DC [...]
For those of you following DC Comics and Blackest Night, you may be aware that our first glimpse of a Red Lantern was in 2007. But did you know it could have been a lot sooner? A lot sooner as in … 1940? Given slightly different circumstances, Alan Scott the original Green Lantern may have [...]
Here is an original drawing of Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, by his creator Martin Nodell. Marty created the Green Lantern in 1940 for All-American Comics #16. I was fortunate enough to meet Marty in 1994 at Cosmic Cat Comics & Games when he came to do a signing. I was managing the [...]
