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It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Naboo

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Is it just me, or am I the only one that LOVES that people keep on thinking up cool new things involving STAR WARS. Looking around today I found a site that tells the weather in your city in terms of locations in the STAR WARS films. For instance, Mondo HQ is in Austin and as of writing this, it’s feeling a little bit like Naboo right now.

Then, over Butt-Numb-A-Thon weekend, our local maestro of the mattress Kayla Kromer debuted her follow up to the Hamburger Bed. She based it off of Han’s Millennium Falcon and got REALLY nerdy with the detail. It’s almost exact! She was even recognized by the official STAR WARS website and was a front page story!

And last but not least, there is the AMAZING 70 minute dissection of THE PHANTOM MENACE. I’ve embedded the first piece in this EPIC 7 part review. I’m not going to go into in depth, but set aside 90 minutes, turn your phone off and get ready to roll on the ground laughing.

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This Is Spinal Tap and Alien Posters Now On Sale!

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

I’m super excited to announce that we have two new posters for all of you! They are on sale NOW!

Alien by Ken Taylor

Australia’s Ken Taylor comes through once again with a mind-blowing poster for Alien. 24″ x 36″ screenprint. $30

We are also offering a VARIANT where we made all of the green inks glow in the dark! This thing will be like a nerdy nightlight. 24″ x 36″ screenprint. Extremely limited. $60

This Is Spinal Tap by The Small Stakes

A massive metallic silver homage to Spinal Tap. In case you’re wondering, these dials go up to 11. 24″ x 36″ screenprint. $30

Posted in Exploitation!, Horror, New Releases, Posters, Real Art, Sci-Fi, Shirts | 3 Comments »

We Got Covered In Nerd! SD Comic Con 2009!

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

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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.

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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!

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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.

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What would Comic Con be without a trip to the Furries’ booth?!

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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!

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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.

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And there are a billion Superman costumes running around, but how many are fighting the Super Powers Lex Luthor?!

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I love it! The best five days of the year. Maybe Mondo will get wild next year and get a booth at the Con?

-Justin

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Gordon Shumway: Melmacian Deviant

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

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.

-Justin

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He’s Bigger Than Big, Taller Than Tall

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

A few days ago, I posted about how Japan had created a 1:1 scale Robotech Gundam for the 30th Anniversary of the MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM anime. Well, they’re at it again!

We can now expect to see a 1:1 scale Tetsujin 28-go aka Gigantor! I’m seriously geeking out over here and trying to think of ANY WAY I can make it to Japan to see these in person.

Not only can you read the full story over at ToysRevil, but they have a link to the production blog where you can keep up with the full sized robots’ creation!

The Gigantor people should fly The Dickies out at the unveiling to have them jam this tune:

-Justin

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George Lucas x NASA

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

This weekend, I was hanging out with Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson while they were having their shows in Austin and Houston. On the Houston part of the trip, we had a few hours to kill before Mark’s show started and decided to hit up the Nasa exhibit of “artifacts” from the films of George Lucas.

What really put me over on going to see this was the promise of props from EVERY movie Lucas had ever been involved with including HOWARD THE DUCK! Take a look at the pictures below, but be warned…I refused to take any photos of the INIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL parts. They had Shia Lebouf’s motorcycle and Harrison Ford’s fedora and whip from the movie, but who freakin’ cares…that movie doesn’t exist in my world.

If you’re in Houston, I’d recommend stopping by if for nothing else to read George Lucas’ original notes for STAR WARS. Drastically different from what ended up on screen.