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Welcome to ONCE UPON A GEEK, the blog of the Irredeemable Shag! For those that don’t know me, I’m one of the regulars on THE UNIQUE GEEK podcast and THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv. I’m also a semi-regular on the VIEWS FROM THE LONGBOX podcast. If you don’t listen to these podcasts or follow the listserv, […]

Sadly, these are the kinds of things I find myself thinking about… If I was a supervillain, I think I would avoid a name based around my arch-nemesis.  It just seems to make sense if you take the time to think about it.  While the name Reverse-Flash is totally bad ass, it hinges completely on the […]

I’m so excited about the start of Doctor Who Season Four!  It begins airing in England on BBC One next Saturday, April 5.  For us here in the U.S.A., it starts airing two weeks later on the Sci-Fi channel on April 18.  This is really unprecedented for Doctor Who.  In the U.S.A. we’ve always been […]

Just a heads-up… I appeared in a recent episode of The Unique Geek podcast with the rest of the usual gang. It can be found here – The Unique Geek Issue #62.  In this episode we discuss geek movie hangovers.  These are movies we enjoyed the first time around, but then eventually woke up with […]

See what you can accomplish with too much time and far too many action figures?  Sometimes I frighten myself… For you nutso comic-collector completists…. the following is for comparison purposes…

Have ya heard?  They’re bringing back Ambush Bug in all his glory!  I’m totally thrilled about this!  Check out the DC Nation column regarding this.  Also, you can read more at this Newsarama article. If you know nothing about Ambush Bug, below are some relevant links.  If you like fun in your comics, I highly […]

Wow…  I just finished listening to the marathon Loeb Report on Word Balloon from January.  John Siuntres did a Q&A with Jeph Loeb (with questions coming from the Brian Michael Bendis’ message board) on things like Ultimates, Heroes, Hulk, Tim Sale, etc.  It was pretty good, but damn… six hours all together.  I listened to it […]

Just a heads-up… I appeared in a recent episode of The Unique Geek podcast with the rest of the usual gang. It can be found here – The Unique Geek Issue #61.  In this episode we discuss characters and stories we’d like to see be made into movies.

Here are a few geek-related motivational posters I just had to share.  Thanks to Michael Bailey of Views from the Longbox for creating these and allowing me to post them.