That is a Punisher beanie? I thought it was a luchadore mask... luchadore mask +5, the fact that someone is using it for sex games -6 = Hot Topic will endlessly be a wasteland of anything they think suckers will pay money for.

Hot Topic actually has a lot of worthwhile band t-shirts. Typically, it's cheaper to order from someplace online, but I like to actually see a shirt I'm buying in person before I put cash down on it.

But, yeah, what the fuck @ that beanie.

Well, one could always pretend it's a Crossbones beanie...

That mask will be a big seller with the convenience store robbery crowd.

"(also: get off my lawn)"

I love you, man.

Happy New Year!

the modok shirt looks interesting for has him plotting evil. as for the beanie was going to say it looks more like cross bones then the punisher plus the picture cuts off the top part of the beanie makes it look like a mask. and Happy New Year Rob

Hot Topic does have some damn cool geek shirts. I just think of them as another Spencer's. Though there isn't one as near me. Forget the emo overtones. Hell, I thought they were goth before I heard about this emo crap. Anyway, I've found some damn cool Marvel shirts there. Got an awesome Alex Maleev Daredevil shirt. Plus a Tsutomu Nihei Wolverine: Snikt! shirt. Saw that walking by a Hot Topic on vacation and walked up to it in disbelief and had to grab it.

I'll never understand why people make fun of Hot Topic. They have tons of awesome shirts and stuff.
Did you guys get picked on by the cool kids or something?

Everything Hot Topic stands for is terrible but I shop there all the time because they are guaranteed to have shirts with things on them I like. So, I give them the benefit of the doubt

I just showed this to a buddy of mine and he thought it was Krang... I had to beat him with a potato-filled sock. Oddly enough, there IS a Krang t-shirt that looks remarkably similar.

The hell with Modok, if it was an Arnim Zola T-Shirt, I'd buy that shit in a second!

Ah, the dichotomy of "taste" that is Hot Topic. On the boys' side: shirts with awesome comic book characters like X Men, Punisher, Deadpool, and nostalgic cartoons such as Rocko's Modern Life and Angry Beavers. On the girl's side: Twilight, Twilight, Twilight, and hideous lingerie. They don't stock nearly enough Extra Small sized men's shirts, I tell you.

As much as I love the designs on some of the tees at hot topic, my main qualm is with their utter lack of quality. The shirts are fucking paper thin for gods sake, I mean for twenty bucks, the least they could do is get some thicker tees. It wasn't always this way though. I bought a transformers shirt in 2001 from them, when they sold the good stuff, and it is STILL wearable, I'd buy more if they weren't as shoddily made as they are now. THAT is why I hate hot topic. My local comics shop now has the best tees, so I manage off of that and the intarwebz.

That being said, I actually embrace the chance for pop-culture icons of my era (80's and 90's) to be accessible to a younger crowd.