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...I recently participated in a team-up between my Firestorm blog and a friend’s Green Arrow blog. That inspired me to dig out the various Green Arrow action figures I own. There are TONS of Green Arrow action figures out there. Click here to see how many come up on Google Images if you don’t believe [...]
Seems like I’ve picked up several trades in the past few weeks. When the heck am I going to find the time to read them all, on top of my normal monthly pull of single issues?!?!?! I’ll make the time somehow, all of these look really good. Eureka – I love me some Eureka! And [...]
Hey gang! The internet at my house has been out since a bad storm on Sunday. No internet = no posts. Sorry for the interruption in service. I’m doing this during my lunch hour at work. To tide you over until things return to normal, enjoy this George Perez drawing from his JLA/Avengers work. This [...]
On Monday I featured quite a few comic book related t-shirts from my closet. Today I’m finishing up the tour of my wardrobe by showing off my DC comics shirts. Please feel free to share any of your favorite t-shirts you own either by commenting or via e-mail! A great Superman t-shirt given to me [...]
I bought a new comic book t-shirt this weekend at Kohls and it got me thinking about what to wear to Dragon*Con. I looked through my closet and was amazed at how many comic book t-shirts I had amassed. I mean seriously, these things pile up. Back when I managed a comic book store, you [...]
