John and I are back from Comic-Con, at last! Sorry I didn’t update while we were there—unfortunately, we had practically no internet access at the hotel, and besides, the convention ate up practically all our time. At any rate, Joe seems to have had plenty to share with you (as always), so our absence was probably not sorely missed.
As far as t-shirt-related things go, the Comic-Con was not terrifically exciting. I mean, I got some crappy free shirts from the Warner Bros. panel1. Webcomics that normally sell shirts on the internet were selling those same shirts on the show floor2. Aside from some people who dressed as Batman, Ice Climbers, or generic anime characters, most everyone was wearing t-shirts3.
Actually, I brought my camera along on the trip in order to document any and all interesting shirt sightings for you, the dear reader. Unfortuantely, this plan did not go so well, primarily for two reasons:
- I failed to actually bring my camera with me on three of the five convention days.
- No one wore any interesting shirts.
I mean, if someone had been wearing this, I would have been all over it. (Figuratively.) (And I know it’s not technically a t-shirt, but shut up.) That didn’t happen. Instead, the entire t-shirt scene at Comic-Con was easily summed up in bulleted-list form, as I shall now demonstrate for you:
In fact, there were so dang many Threadless tees that I took it upon myself to create a game of Threadless Bingo, for John and me to play at next year’s Comic-Con. But then, why limit the game to just us two? Surely this is a game to be enjoyed by anyone, anywhere!
And so, I present you with (what I presume to be) the world’s very first… Threadless Bingo board!
Click on the image for the full-sized board.
In retrospect, I probably should have put The Communist Party in the center square. (It’s practically a free spot, it’s so popular. Same with Dark Side of the Garden.) No matter—it’s not very hard to make your own board, if for some reason you don’t like the one I’ve made here. In fact, someone who has mastered the dark art of internet wizardry (not I) could probably lash together some kind of randomized Bingo-board generator, perhaps out of some flotsam and leftover parachute cord4.
You get the idea, so what’re you waiting for? Print out a couple of boards and start playing a game with a friend! It’s guaranteed to entertain at your next local mass gathering of nerds and geeks, or your money back!
1 One of them was for Get Smart, the other was for The Invasion. And can you believe it—someone stole them from me! While I was in the bathroom! The gall of some people, swiping my free crappy merchandise!
2 But no shipping fees! I know—thrilling, right?
3 I shouldn’t neglect one of the cooler costumes: an amputee who was modelling at the Planet Terror booth! Hooray for costumes which specifically apply to our differently-abled friends!
4 I once saw Bear Grylls do this on an episode of Man vs. Wild.
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why do I wanna just knee that batman guy in the balls?
also, the generic anime characters are at least 2/3 from Street Fighter.
and I want to cuddle with the ice climbers, maybe?
That seems like a pretty reasonable reaction, David…
That Threadless Bingo is pretty funny! You’re definitely right about The Communisty Party and Dark Side of the Garden, especially at Comic-Con; Pandamonium is probably pretty high up there, too. You’ll have to update the card for next year’s Con, though, because of the hundreds of new Threadless designs that will be released by then.
Dag, yo. How did I not recognize Chun-Li? Admittedly, I don’t play Street Fighter, but no self-resepcting gamer should have missed that. Excuse me while I go excoriate myself as punishment for my oversight.
Regarding the anime characters: I’m fairly certain that the one on the left is Ranma Saotome, but I don’t know what’s up with the weird head-growth.
How funny. I guess Threadless is getting pretty popular. I’ll try Threadless Bingo the next time I’m at an event, especially in SF.
Love the Threadless Bingo. I can play it both in my office and also out and about in Soho. Unfortunately the game wouldn’t last very long due to the high numbers of Threadless wearers.