This is your pal Justin from Mondo in Austin, TX. Just a heads up, TROLL 2 and BEST WORST MOVIE are playing in your town tonight and tomorrow as part of the Rooftop Films series. You can find all information and tickets here. I’m not gonna lie and say “It’s almost sold out. Better hurry!” because I’m really not sure if it is or not, but based on everywhere else this movie plays, it does sell out…so I guess you better hurry and get tickets if you want to go. Better safe than sorry.
Not only will these movies be playing, but select cast members will be there including star of TROLL 2 and director of BEST WORST MOVIE Michael Stephenson.
If that isn’t enough, we will be debuting our brand new TROLL 2 shirt at the show and giving you all a chance to be the first to buy it!
Hit Michael and the TROLL 2 gang up at the Best Worst Movie site and also on Twitter and let them know what you think!
I’ve been getting lots of replies on Twitter and emails asking “Is that your shirt in this movie?” or “Is that your poster?!” I figured this would be a good opportunity to point a few of them out.
William Goss from Cinematical hit me up recently and said that the new Robin Williams movie WORLDS GREATEST DAD has our long sold out Tyler Stout THE THING poster hanging up in his bedroom.
We’re also in two of the new FUNNY PEOPLE trailers.
At about 52 seconds in, you can see Seth Rogen wearing a SCORSESE director shirt that we have available HERE.
At about 27 seconds in on this clip, Jonah Hill is wearing our Badass Cinema Kung Fu shirt that can be found HERE.
Last time Jonah Hill was at the theater, he bought a ton of stuff from the shop. Thanks for the love, Jonah!
As I’m sure you all know, San Diego Comic Con went down last week. Terror Tuesday’s Zack Carlson and I attended and made it a point to stay away from Hall H at all costs. (Hall H is the place where everyone goes to watch like 3 minutes ot TWILIGHT and stuff like that…no thanks.) We bought hundreds of pounds of comics, lots of toys and lots of bootlegs. (Zack bought one featuring old timey love stories, but with all of the human characters replaced with dogs. Can’t find that in Hall H.) Here are some of the highlights from this years Con.
We bought so many comics this year it should’ve been illegal. Zack’s bag alone weighed 115 pounds and that was just comics alone!
And last but not least, definitely the best cover of all of the comics we bought this year: HANSI: THE GIRL WHO LOVED THE SWASTIKA! This is super fitting considering it’s unofficially “Nazi Killing” month at the Alamo. I also like the Al Hartley signature in the bottom right hand corner…it’s a straight rip of the way companies would advertise Jack Kirby being on a comic. I guess the only way this cover could’ve been better is if Kirby did it himself.
What would Comic Con be without a trip to the Furries’ booth?!
Adam West was also hung out for approximately 4 hours at the Con and as you can tell by the picture he graciously took with me, (he charged) he was psyched to be there! Don’t know if it reads in the picture, but that is a hat he’s wearing and it does say Adam West on it. I want!
Probably my favorite part of the convention are the costumes and there were some CRAZY ones this year. This first one isn’t the best we saw, but it was the most confusing.
This was a first for me…Blanka! Pretty genius.
And there are a billion Superman costumes running around, but how many are fighting the Super Powers Lex Luthor?!
I love it! The best five days of the year. Maybe Mondo will get wild next year and get a booth at the Con?
San Diego Comic Con is bigger than any holiday…period. It’s more exciting than Christmas, Halloween or Labor Day. I guess, when you really think about it, Comic Con is all of those things rolled into one! You’ve got dudes running around in awesome costumes, super cool products everywhere, cheap silver age comics…I love it!
We’re super happy to announce that we will be selling our Demon Scourge ring that we collaborated with Mishka x Lamour Supreme at the Toy Tokyo booth #5237. These will be available starting preview night so mark the Toy Tokyo booth as one of the first things you make a dash for. We have 15 black metal versions available and ONLY 5 of the silver.
We’ll also have shirts for sale at Mark Todd’s booth. Him and Esther Pearl Watson will have some awesome stuff up for grabs so definitely check that out! Their booth is #1732.
There are going to be a million people reporting out of Comic Con this year, but if you want the real scoops…start following Mondo on Twitter. I won’t be talking about what’s going on in Hall H like everyone else…I’ll be down in the trenches digging through long boxes and Twitpic’ing pictures of dudes dressed as Spawn and big ladies dressed as Emma Frost. If that’s the type of thing you’re into, FOLLOW US!
We’re very proud to announce a new batch of great posters! This first poster is a limited edition cream & silver variant of Total Recall by Tyler Stout!
Click on images for more:
Tyler Stout's Total Recall Variant Poster
The regular version in stunning metallic inks:
Tyler Stout's Total Recall Poster
It had been way too long since Daniel Danger did a poster for us, so we had him do one of our fav’s.
The Royal Tennenbaums:
Daniel Danger's The Royal Tennenbaums Poster
Finally, an ode to horror fans, Alex Pardee does Re-Animator, a horror classic!
Forget paying you Tuesday for a burger today. Wimpy would straight up murder someone right now for this bed!
Several months ago, Kayla Kromer attended an after hours screening here at the Alamo of a movie called HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE.
While watching that movie, Kayla was hit with inspiration as the dorms at BusterBurger U. didn’t have bunk beds or cots or any of the shitty beds that we were all used to sleeping on in college. Nope. They slept in GIGANTIC HAMBURGERS with cheese as blankets and pickles as pillows. Kayla spent the next two months creating the ultimate in food/comfort and then when it was revelaed, it literally broke the internet. It was front page on DIGG, was featured on 100’s of blogs and in dozens of magazines, the funniest being a US Weekly issue where Jessica Simpson was proclaiming “I’m not fat!” on the cover. It couldn’t have been featured in a better issue.
Kayla has recently had a few personal problems and needs to let go of the bed. Last night she put it up on eBay with a starting bid of 1 cent and as of me writing this it’s already up to over 300 bucks! Want this Hamburger for your bed?! Click on the pic below and plunk down some cash!
If you don’t know yet, Mishka x Lamour Supreme x Mondo are releasing one ring to rule them all at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. That ring would be THE RING OF THE DEMON SCOURGE!
Last time I did a post, I took you halfway through the process of creating the severed fingers that these bad boys would be housed on. We left off with Meredith pouring molten clay into the alginate mold of my hand. After she allowed the clay to cool, she popped it out and she got this to work on:
If you’ve never high fived me or shook my hand and don’t what my hand looks like, I’ll tell you this…this is exact! When I showed my Mom these pics, she got all Mom on me and said, “Oh Justin. What if you sell these fingers and someone kills someone and uses the fingerprints on them to frame you. You’d be in so much trouble.” I was all like, “Oh Mom. Come on. They couldn’t do that.” When I went to pick these up the first thing Meredith said was, “Oh before I forget, I scraped your fingerprints from all the fingers so nobody could use your fingerprints and frame you.” WHAT?! That’s crazy! So, I guess everyone take this as a lesson. If you ever get your hands molded, have the artist scrape your prints and for god’s sake, LISTEN TO YOUR PARENTS! I learned nothing from Mr. T apparently. So, sorry Mom. You were right.
After Meredith scraped my prints clean, she cut my fingers off proper!
See how the middle three kinda look like avocados with the pits dug out and the ring and pinky look normal with the fingernail. Well, we decided to go all out and pour resin for the fingernails so it would be more realistic. Neither Mishka nor Mondo skimp! Once Meredith fixed any imperfections that might have happened when she poured the clay, she made silicone molds of my fingers. Before she pours the silicone she needed to suspend the fingers in mid air in the center of the cups. She wouldn’t tell me how she did it. A magician never reveal their secrets I guess (fuck you FOX):
Shen then pours silicone around the fingers to make the final mold:
When the silicone mold cures, she gets wild and starts pouring the actual fingers.
YEAH! Oh man! When I got the call that they were done and I could come over and take a gander, I really lost it. When I arrived, here is what they had waiting for me…nail included!
And that’s all you get until the third and final chapter when we announce where at Comic Con you can buy these and when we show you final pics of the ring and finger packaging! Until then, wipe up your DROOOOOOOL!
As Tim and I posted earlier this week, John Gholson has been on a quest to make it to Fantastic Fest. To raise funds, he has begun drawing pictures of whatever the hell you want. My request:
ALF AS A LEATHER DADDY!
I’ve been on a big Tom of Finland kick lately, plus I love ALF. I guess combining the two makes sense…? I love ALF so much that I will publicly announce to you all right now that I plan on getting an ALF tattoo within the next two months. After that, I’m pretty sure I could never get a “real” job ever again. Nobody wants to buy furniture from a dude with an ALF tattoo. Fact.
If you want John to draw you ANYTHING, go to his blog HERE and make a request.
