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...Today is day four of CALVIN AND HOBBES SNOW DAYS! Enjoy these snowmen strips. Also, please consider making a pledge to Dear Mr. Watterson, a film that will look to the readers and fans of Calvin & Hobbes to tell the story of the strip and its creator. For more information on the fund raising […]
Today is day three of CALVIN AND HOBBES SNOW DAYS! Enjoy these snowmen strips. Also, please consider making a pledge to Dear Mr. Watterson, a film that will look to the readers and fans of Calvin & Hobbes to tell the story of the strip and its creator. For more information on the fund raising […]
Today is day two of CALVIN AND HOBBES SNOW DAYS! Enjoy these snowmen strips. Also, please consider making a pledge to Dear Mr. Watterson, a film that will look to the readers and fans of Calvin & Hobbes to tell the story of the strip and its creator. For more information on the fund raising […]
I’m officially declaring this week CALVIN AND HOBBES SNOW DAYS! Each day this week will spotlight a handful of Calvin & Hobbes comic strips featuring snowmen. This collection won’t cover all of the snowman related strips, but will tackle many of them. You may recall I’ve posted before about the upcoming film, Dear Mr. Watterson. […]
We here at ONCE UPON A GEEK wish you and your loved ones a wonderful Christmas and a happy holidays! To help celebrate, please enjoy the DC Comics snowball extravaganza below. Click the image to enlarge. 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 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 […]
Here is a really fun Marvel/Disney mash-up entitled, “Epic Misney”. It was created by T. Campbell and John Waltrip. I was gonna name some of my favorite bits in the image below, but then I realized I was listing nearly everything. I love this entire drawing! Click the image to enlarge. It was originally posted […]
I just finished listening to an excellent Doctor Who audio book entitled, The Forever Trap. I’m typically more of a full-cast audio drama fan, but this particular audio book really impressed me. The story was written by Dan Abnett (yes, that Dan Abnett of Marvel Comics Nova, Annihilation, War of Kings, etc), read by Catherine […]
In case you haven’t seen it already, here is the Iron Man 2 trailer. The film is due in theaters on May 7, 2010. Man, it looks REALLY good! My thanks to Lore (the irredeemable brother) for suggesting I post this. If you can’t view the embedded video above, please click here.
I finally got my copy of the Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space Roleplaying Game, and turns out I’m in it! Well… I’m not exactly IN the game, but I am mentioned in the credits and some of my playtesting group’s contributions made it into the game! Sorry to subject you to what follows. […]
