Geek Apparel of the Week: MODOK
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?Since I have both an FFF and a TR contest to run today, I thought I’d go ahead and knock Geek Apparel out early — and easy task when Zach Snyder sends you an awesome MODOK shirt, which he did. This is $19-21 and, believe it or not, sold at Hot Topic amidst all the Twilight bullshit and retro Nintendo shirts bought by kids who weren’t even born when most of them came out (also: get off my lawn). Question: Does the availability of this shirt at Hot Topic negate the fact that they also sell this:
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?…or is this Punisher beanie so fucking awful that no amount of MODOK merchandise could ever make up for it? Discuss in the comments, and please show your work. And thanks to DG for the latter tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.