Geek Apparel of the Week: Ink Empire, Looks That Kill, Misc.
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?? A Stormtrooper tee in classic Japanese calligraphy style? YES, PLEASE. It’s $20 at Threadless.
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?? Another week, another stunning ’80s fashion-style tee from We Love Fine. This time it’s the Misfits from Jem, and it’s $25.
? The reason Geek Apparel is late is because almost every single shirt-a-day site has a good-to-great nerd shirt available today, and I got overwhelmed trying to decide which ones to run. So I decided to run all of them. TeeFury has a Doctor Who/Grinch Who Stole Christmas Whoville mash-up; Woot has the Dark Knight as a knight chess piece; Ript Apparel has a sweet Transformers: The Movie done in the classic Star Wars movie poster style; Qwertee has a library shelf of nerdy books by nerdier authors; Nowhere Bad has baby Admiral Ackbar (and no, he doesn’t say “It’s a twap”); and The Yetee has a neat Tintin/Han Solo mash-up.
About The Author
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.