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...Artist Billy Penn (Hot Shot & Mighty Girl, Savage Dragon) is currently running a special on Parody Comic Book Portraits! Click the advertisement below to enlarge. For Father’s Day 2009, my wife commissioned Billy to draw a parody comic book cover featuring me. Billy created the brilliant homage to Flash #123 (Sept. 1961) you see […]
Have I mentioned lately how awesome my wife is? The other day The Irrepressible Gena came home from shopping with this t-shirt. She’s an absolute non-geek, but bought this shirt because she knew it’d make me happy. She’s so fantastic! And beautiful too! It’s a reproduction of the cover to Wonder Woman #253 dated March […]
Check out this ad for Infinity, Inc. from 1984! Pretty cool! If you aren’t familiar with this series, the heroes were the children of the Justice Society of America. Several of these characters eventually graduated to the JSA team. 1980’s goodness!
My tremendously awesome wife recently picked up these party paper goods. I foresee a Supergirl-themed party in my daughters near future.
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “E”, as in “Erika”. Because Erika (from I Don’t Read My Blog Either) chastised me for not blogging about this sooner. You should be reading Irredeemable the comic book from BOOM! Studios! What a fun ride! Writer Mark Waid is really banging out an interesting story, […]
