Look at this. Crisp, white shirt. Zeck art on an empty field. Beautiful. This makes me want to hit the streets and start my own war on crime. Forget those hideous shirts and jackets being produced now. Go classic. Go 1987.

I almost feel like someone had a poorly tie-dyed blue shirt, and some blazed out design dude with way too much authority saw it, murmured “hu-huh, hu-huh” and came out with this. C’mon DC.

And this is why there won’t be a successful FLASH movie anytime soon…

The story is fine. I enjoyed it. But for the life of me, I can’t remember any of it. Help?

Regardless… here’s a classic 80′s t celebrating it. Wow.

How do you know it’s original? Oh, I bet our friends over at teetilldeath recognize this tag. Screen Stars. The official brand of all great 80′s t-shirts.

Oh and in case you actually wanted to read the book, it’s out of print. Wha? How does that work?? Two of Marvel’s biggest characters, drawn by one of the most popular artists of all time, and it’s not in print?! Someone throw up the Spidey Signal and get to work!

Luckily… here’s an out of print collection of this series. Thank us later.

A really stark contrast to even the Marvel characters, he’s been the basis for many comic heroes across the board, especially since he’s successful run as Marvel’s favorite anti-hero in the Punisher War Journal of the late 80′s. Jim Lee got some of his earliest steady work there. 

Please note someone putting a $4.00 price tag DIRECTLY OVER the Jim Lee autograph. Oof. 

In recent years, Garth Ennis had a killer run that even I followed, even though I’ve never been the biggest Punisher man. Hopefully there can be a better Punisher post in the future, but I came across this shirt and was really just feelin’ it. Good style for any time. 

It was probably not made in this decade. 

The shirt below fits what I’m looking for, but it’s not exactly right. Couple weird things about it, but at least it’s heading in the direction of what I’d want in my Batshirt. I’ll let the seller take over from here because sometimes they absolutely nail the descriptions. For further humor, PLEASE click through to see the creepy photo that for some reason accompanies this auction. 

And a friend said “There’s nothing worse than Jar Jar.” 

To which we got into some debate, and inevitably came down to the fact that he would indeed prefer to be Jar Jar in a “Star Wars On Ice” production which involved some singing and voice acting along with obviously skating around in a Jar Jar outfit to.. something. I can’t remember what it was, but it was pretty bad.

This is worse. Much worse.

I don’t think this is, but if someone told me it was officially licensed, I’d believe them. smh.

I think that often, but it has yet to stop me from owning at least three but no more than five comic book related tees. (One of the counted is an Infinity Gauntlet thermal shirt, so not a tee, but something I feel warmth in my heart over owning.) 

But then I thought about it. Jack Kirby. Thor. Iconic image. Tight design. 

Next time I come across one of these in my size I will be purchasing it. I think it says that you like comics, but not in an ironic way, and that clearly you are an adult but hey… it’s a t-shirt. Dig it.

They had better hope someone making a retro 80′s movie needs that perfect shirt for the strange alt girl who wears a trench coat and john lennon glasses with neon plastic jewelry.

All that said… if someone has this shirt in XL or bigger… let’s talk.

The Extended Universe.

To the casual Star Wars fan, that means nothing. To the diehard, it’s everything.

To some of us in between, it’s… confusing. Intriguing. Overwhelming. 

The extended universe, for those uninformed, is what happened when fans starving for more are given an extended look at the star wars universe. Past, present, and (possible) future(s). This expansion gave the nerd in all of us something to nerd about. Everyone who salivated at the thought of more Boba Fett than a few seconds on the screen.. you’ve got it. Sometimes it becomes a tangled web of continuity, but overall… it just gives a bit more to consume and digest when thinking about Tatooine and Jengo Fett.

Overall, I’m into it. And the best place to access this cornucopia of Star Wars expansion, in my opinion, is through the comics. Now many may argue that the novels are a more concise option, but I’d say the visual component has always been important to Star Wars. This was a movie first, not a novel. While there is a place for all of these mediums, Star Wars was built on a rich story AND a beautiful canvas to look at – from the first time a giant star destroyed crossed over the screen – that’s a visual that just CAN’T be done in text. 

But here’s a nice shirt that celebrates both the classic look of the movies and the move into the comics world. Wish they had an actual image of the shirt, but I’ve seen these in real life and always loved the look. Much more in the Star Wars world, EU or otherwise, to come.