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...We here at ONCE UPON A GEEK wish you and your loved ones a wonderful Christmas Eve! To help celebrate, please enjoy some holiday-themed comic book covers! 25 Santa Claus comic book covers 23 holiday season covers A few more holiday season covers Merry Geekmas!
THE BOOK DC Comics: The 75th Anniversary Poster Book contains 100 of the most important, most beautiful, and most bizarre DC Comics covers ever. These oversized covers span from the classic Action Comics #1 (1938) to modern tales such as Batman: RIP (2008). One of the coolest features of this book are the perforated pages. […]
I came across these really cool tote bags for girls this weekend at Wal-Mart! Forgive the fuzzy photos, they were taken with my camera phone. The picture below came out especially bad. It’s a shame because it was a cool looking design. You should be able to find these at your local Wal-Mart. Girl Power!
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 amazing trailer!!! The heroes of DC face seemingly insurmountable odds against threats both physical and mental in this 5 minute CG trailer for DC Universe Online! Video Games | DC Universe Online | Exclusive Who Do You Trust Trailer HD XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii If you can’t see […]
Last night DC Comics revealed Wonder Woman’s new duds starting in this week’s issue #600. The new look was designed by Jim Lee. They’ve kept the lasso, magic bracelets, and tiara, but the long-standing bathing suit is gone. The new costume also comes with a re-write of her origin by J. Michael Straczynski. For the […]
Blue Devil … on a Warner Bros. Consumer Products promotional poster? Seriously? Really? How friggin’ cool! The image below comes from License! Global which is gearing up for their big licensing show in Las Vegas next week. It was released along with some promo art for the upcoming Green Lantern film. Visit SuperHeroHype.com for further […]
I can’t wait! Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths comes out next Tuesday, February 23, on Blu-Ray and DVD! This has the potential to be one of the best DC animated movies yet. Here is the description from the official movie web site: In a parallel universe, the lone survivor of Earth’s Justice League-Lex Luther-travels […]
Welcome to ONCE UPON A GEEK’s part of the Crisis on Earth-Blog: The DC Challenge! ONCE UPON A GEEK is a blog that focuses on a variety of geeky topics, including: comic books, Doctor Who, Star Wars, role-playing, 80’s TV shows, and science fiction in general. If this is your first time here, welcome aboard! […]
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!
