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.
Who Would Love This: Tattooed hipster nerds
Price: NA
Like Patrick’s birthday swag Vault post, this one is a little different. If you didn’t know, that’s me showing off my tattoo from Swamp Thing 9, inspired by Yanick Paquette’s orchid theme for Abby Arcane. As I started getting more and more into comics this last year, I knew my next tattoo would have to be comic-book themed somehow, but I didn’t want to get just a Wonder Woman logo or something like that; it needed to be more unique. Then I read Swamp Thing 9, and I was moved: not only by the beauty of Paquette’s work, but by the beauty of Scott Snyder’s story as well. It was the first time I realized just what comic books can be, and I knew exactly what tattoo I wanted.
This looks awesome, Shelby. Makes me wonder what comics-inspired tattoo I would ever consider…
Well, obviously, the joker’s face nailed to your chest. Duh.
Or the Catwoman Zero issue cover before they made him change it because it was too ridiculous.
Wow, I was going to go with “half-head tattoo for Two-Face,” but I think you’ve already won the award for grossest idea.
Yesssssssssssss.
Thanks Drew! I found a guy who does great work.
Liefeld utility belts, one across the waist, and one diagonally from your right shoulder to your left hip, with extra pouches
plus eight guns.
And three swords.
Add a fourth sword at the last minute – don’t bother to change the posing of the character.
Acceptable only if none of the sword are totally straight; they all have to have a slight curve to them.
Tatoo weird, made-up muscles onto your arms in-between and on-top-of your real anatomy
Pretty freakin’ cool
Thanks, friend!
Check out the sweet Hipster Tattoos in this video “Hipster The Get Down” on YouTube
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