Geek A Week Comes to an End

One of the websites that I check every week for new material belongs to Len Peralta, an artist and illustrator.  A year ago he decided to do trading cards of the world's biggest geeks. It was a huge project contacting 52 people or groups that have had an impact on American culture in a geeky way.  Each card depicted the geek as a comic book character of some sort and most geeks have a podcast in which they answer a series of questions. So each person in the set had to agree to be on the trading card set, sit for a phone interview, and then agree to the way the card looked. Some of the names he got for the set are pretty amazing. For example:

Kevin Smith (writer-director)  John Hodgman (of The Daily Show and Mac commercials)

Adam Savage (of Mythbusters)                       Weird Al Yankovic (singing star)

Penn and Teller (magicians)                       Neil Gaimin (author)

 I have followed the set for 6 months, and as the set neared the end, everybody's question was "Who is going to finish the set?" I don't know how he did it, but he got the king of Geek, the head man at Marvel Comics, Stan Lee:

You can see all the cards with better pictures (and cardbacks) and the podcast for each geek here.   The Geek a Week page is here, including some info about Stan Lee to finish the set. Think Geek, which is a storefront for geek stuff has started selling the cards in packs of 8 here. It has been a lot of fun each week to see who would be next. Now I have to find something else to follow for awhile.