When I was a kid growing up I collected cards for baseball, football, hockey, even the cards they put out for the Star Wars and Superman films.

Well today ThinkGeek is making it possible to collect your favorite geeks in a card set!  How kool is that!

Each set contains eight full color two-sided trading cards with a beautiful piece of artwork on one side, and a micro biography complete with a list of stats super powers for each geek on the other. Now you can collect every geek... every week... in 8 card increments. In fact, why not get two packs so you can have one sealed up in mint condition, and one more to open and enjoy. Come on, you know you want to.

Features

• Geek A Week trading cards with original artwork by Len Peralta
• 8 cards per set
• Each card depicts an amazing geek immortalized in full color
• Card backs contain stats and a micro biography
• Set One:
  • #1 - Jonathan Coulton
  • #2 - Fred Seibert
  • #3 - Veronica Belmont
  • #4 - John Scalzi
  • #5 - Rifftrax
  • #6 - Bonnie Burton
  • #7 - MC Frontalot
  • #8 - Ken Plume

The poem

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Read it outloud

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma
CRASH.

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