The Retcon Punchers spend an awful lot of time looking for ways to celebrate our nerdy obsessions. This means a lot of time sunk into scouring Etsy, Deviant Art, Think Geek or whatever. Sometimes we see things so great we just have to share them… and then clutch them fiercely to our collective chest. Throw it in The Vault.
Website: Etsy
Who Would Love This: Shelby. Or, nerdy grandmothers.
Price: $3.63 (which is less than I spent on a blended chai this weekend)
Since the common man has long-since lost his ability to chisel his most solemn prayers and aphorisms into stone, we have developed the technology of “cross-stitch.” Normally, you’ll see the Nicene Creed on a pillow on your grandmother’s couch, or a pithy little statement about the value of family framed in your aunts den, but why not broaden that? Why not add the battle-cry of the Green Lanterns to that list? And at the low low price of “basically nothing,” what have you got to lose?
Retcon Punch 
You know me so well.
I might actually have a book of Batman cross-stitch patterns somewhere…
Can I expect some Batman cross-stitch for my birthday?
No.
But only because I don’t actually know if I still have it.
I almost want this in my place. My folks have a lot of cross stitch in their house, but it’s mostly bible verses, the alphabet and Irish prayers that my grandmother made years ago. I want some nerdy cross stitch.
What do you think your grandmother would do if you made this for her and gave it as a gift? Display it proudly on the wall along side the 23 Psalm?