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...On October 6, the planet blacked out for two minutes and seventeen seconds. The whole world saw the future. The question on everybody’s lips was, “What did you see?” I’ll tell you what I saw… I saw an awesome television series! FlashForward: The Complete Series was released on DVD just over a week ago. I […]
Presenting comic book advertisements for the 1980 Saturday morning cartoons! Here we have ads from ABC, NBC, and CBS. If I had to declare a winner for me personally in 1980, I guess it would have been ABC. I was a big fan of Super Friends and Thundarr the Barbarian, and a moderate fan of […]
Long time readers of ONCE UPON A GEEK may remember that I’m a big fan of the 1980s phenom “V” (click here for other “V” related posts). On Tuesday ABC released two clips from their upcoming “V” reimagining. ABC’s remake of the 1980s miniseries “V” currently has been ordered for 13 episodes. However it could […]
You may have heard that ABC is developing Bill Willingham’s DC comic ‘Fables’ for television. If you have not, you can read about it by clicking here. Here is the first commercial. Enjoy!
