geekitude

[H]e looked like such a geek. He had these huge feet and hands, and he looked like a total dork. The mighty staff at Marvel must have realized this, so they gave the beastie boy a whole new image, dropping his utter geekitude and transforming him into the blue-furred bad boy that has really hit it big with The Avengers, X-Factor, and X-Men fans.

1992 October, “Wizard Comic Watch: Amazing Adventures #11”, in Patrick Daniel O’Neill, editor, Wizard: The Guide to Comics, volume 1, number 14, Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.: Gareb Shamus Enterprises, Inc. D.B.A. Wizard Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72

“What does this cone have to do with your work?” Nora’s puzzled look revealed that Dad had just surpassed her in geekitude. Which, unfortunately, only made him more determined to explain.

2000 September, K[atherine] A[lice] Applegate, chapter 1, in The Revelation (An Apple Paperback), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 6

When Del Rey first told me they were sending me, I asked longtime pal and local cartoonist celebrity Stephen J. Notley what the hell Comicon was. Imagine the Shaw Conference Centre, he said, stacked, packed and latched with literally hundreds of booths bursting with the biggest assortment of fanboyish delights assemblable. The Mecca of manga, the Gethsemane of Geekitude.

2004 August 5–11, Minister Faust [pseudonym; Malcolm Azania], “Inside the Gethsemane of Geekitude: Walking and gawking at fanboy central: the San Diego Comicon”, in Ron Garth, editor, Vue Weekly, number 459, Edmonton, Alta.: 783783 Alberta Ltd, →OCLC, page 11, column 1