The Vault – Bizarro Superman T-Shirt

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.

Bizarro Superman T-ShirtWebsite: Super Hero Stuff

Who Would Love This: Bizarro Superman fans/regular Superman fans who just want to see how they look in the mirror.

Price: $23.99

I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, a t-shirt with a superhero logo. Real original.” But I think that’s the beauty of this shirt. To the uninitiated, this will just look like a regular Superman shirt, but on closer inspection, the “S” is backwards. Curious passersby may inquire about the apparent mistake, at which point you can explain the whole concept of Bizarro Superman before bidding them a fond “hello.” Really, though, this shirt is pretty much guaranteed to make you the nerdiest person in any room; it’s a nerdy Superman shirt for those who don’t know who Bizarro is, and it’s a super nerdy shirt for the people who do. Or, as Bizarro would put it, “this shirt am cool.”

4 comments on “The Vault – Bizarro Superman T-Shirt

  1. I saw the purple costume style one of these from Graffiti Designs, which is the same company that made Shelby and I’s Animal Man Evolve or Die shirts. That would be even slightly more nerdy, since you get questions like, ‘Why is your Superman shirt purple-y?’

    • It’s so weird to me that a superhero shirt should be nerdy at all. I mean, when someone wears a jersey with a professional athlete’s name, number and team colors on them, it’s not considered geeky at all. Culturally, we are weird about accepting the enthusiasms of others.

      • It’s interesting. T-shirts seem less nerdy because it’s not actually part of the costume, but just a symbol that represents your fandom in some way. Jerseys, on the other hand, are supposed to look like what that athlete wears, and the name on the back implies that whoever is wearing that shirt is that athlete.

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