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!
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 [...]
We here at ONCE UPON A GEEK wish you and your loved ones a wonderful Christmas Eve! To help celebrate, please enjoy these holiday-themed comic book covers. Last year I posted 25 Santa-themed covers which you can see by clicking here. You can also find another 23 holiday related covers I posted last year by [...]
I stumbled across a few more Saturday Morning Cartoon advertisements in some old comics. Below are ads that ran in DC comics in the fall of 1983. At the time, they were promoting the upcoming fall line-up of Saturday morning cartoons on ABC and NBC. Oddly enough I didn’t see an ad for CBS. Click [...]
Presenting another very special blog entry by my wife, The Irrepressible Gena! Just a little background for you, my wife is not a geek. She’s a wonderful (and gorgeous) normal person. So I thought her perspective would be interesting to share here. Without further ado, The Irrepressible Gena’s thoughts on DragonCon… Labor Day Weekend … [...]
Coverage of Dragon*Con 2009 continues here! I’ve already recapped Friday and Saturday, so today will cover Sunday and Monday. If you’d like to see over 600 pictures I took at the event, you can view them on Flickr and THE UNIQUE GEEK photo gallery. SUNDAY After going to sleep around 5am the night before, we [...]
Merry Christmas! To help keep you in the spirit of things, please enjoy these Christmas-related comic book covers. To see yesterday’s Santa Claus comic book covers click here. Merry Geekmas! Merry Geekmas!
We here at ONCE UPON A GEEK wish you and your loved ones a wonderful Christmas Eve! To help celebrate, please enjoy these comic book covers featuring Santa Claus. Come back tomorrow for even more Christmas-related covers. Crazy! Who knew the Kryptonian and the Kringle were so tight?!?!? “Don’t worry, Batman, I got this end. [...]
Just a heads-up… I appeared in a couple recent episodes of The Unique Geek podcast. The Unique Geek Issue #70 features the usual gang as we discuss the latest mediocre offerings from Lucas as well as the lackluster summer movie season. Really we are just a bunch of grumpy guys with nothing better to do. The Unique [...]
Hulk + Porn = Gamma Dong. I’m just sayin’… Once The Unique Geek Presidential Debate podcast is posted, this will make a little more sense. Be watching The Unique Geek website for this special event!
In an earlier post I mentioned I had begun the TRUE education of my two-year old daughter. Well, one of the things children love more than anything is music. A while back, my wife and I were unfortunate enough to stumble across a couple children’s music CDs. We purchased them for my step-son who really showed [...]
