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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Okay… to be fair, this isn’t really a geek movie trailer. However, it is required viewing for all men. Even if you’ve already seen a trailer for The Expendables, you gotta watch this one. It shares all the right reasons for guys to see this movie! Are you man enough?!?!? If you can’t view the [...]
I present to you the greatest Batman team-up that never happened… Batman vs Donkey Kong!!! Click the image to enlarge. Found on deankotz’s Deviant art page. According to the artist, his next project will be Superman vs Burger Time!
How did I not know about this movie before now?!?!? It’s about time travel. It’s starring Chris O’Dowd from THE IT CROWD. It’s British. It’s billed as DOCTOR WHO meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD. And it’s got Anna Faris. The film was released in the UK back in April 2009. WTF, mate?!?! Utterly bizarre that [...]
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I love me some Calvin & Hobbes. Well here is a clever parody where Hobbes has been replaced with Steve Jobs from Apple. These were written by Jacob Lambert and drawn by Gary Hallgren. Click each image to enlarge.
Lando’s Love Lessons: Eight Simple Rules for Getting Galactic Tail Found on EgoTV
Here are some fun Iron Man mash-ups I’ve seen lately… My thanks to Cary from THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv for directing me to the R2-D2 and Cyberman mash-ups!
If you haven’t already, you gotta check out NEIGHBORS FROM HELL! It’s a new animated series on TBS from the producers of Family Guy and South Park. There is some great voice work by folks like Patton Oswald, Molly Shannon, and Will Sasso. It’s a riot, but definitely not for the kiddies. The series is [...]
The latest installment in THE YODA AND DINAH SHOW! This time out, Black Canary gets angry!
