Comic Con Stuff!

Unfortunately, there was no way I was going to make it to Comic Con, One day I will go. I will live the dream of going to the San Diego comicon and spend all of my money buying stuff to fill my new house up. So I've been keeping up to date with all the stuff from the weekend via constant geek news website hoppings and a few youtube channels. There's so much cool stuff that I'm already wanting to design new geek T-Shirts for! I'm only going to talk about a few of my favourite bits for it (its all trailers anyway), cos there's so much stuff there that I just couldn't write about it all. 


So big one for me is the Final Fantasy Kings Glaive. I'm annoyed that its only getting a North America theatrical release, so my American friends will see it before I do, but the news now that its going to be releasing for the download places on August 30th should be good. I've  been a constant FF14 player and still do regular runs with my FC on Cerberus, but its an MMO, and I used to love the big huge single player story lines of 8, 9 and 10 so I really cant wait for FF15, I never got a long with 13... I liked the characters, but I suffered with the combat and the story never really gripped me as much as I thought it would. Could be that I end up just sketching designs whilst my boyfriend plays it so I can watch the story. That's been happening just recently as he's played through the entire Uncharted series again (I swear he likes Nathan Drake more than me).   But anyway I thought this might give me an opportunity to highlight a few final fantasy T shirts I have.

The Sherlock trailer looks great, really cant wait for the next series, and Moriarty is just an amazing bad guy. Interested to see how he survived shooting himself in the head, not a lot of people come back from that! I know I'll be digging out my SHER locked Tshirt

Justice League trailer!!! Ok, so I wasn't impressed with Batman V Superman. This isn't a review blog, so I wont go into too much detail, but I basically didn't like any of the bad guys or that whole thing with both their mums being named Martha. "Oh your mums names Martha? Well this changes everything. We're best friends now". 

The new trailer though! It looks great! To be honest it really needed to be. It looks a lot lighter than BVS, almost like they've taken a few pointers from The Avengers.... maybe a few too many... I'd still like them to try stick to that traditional comic style that Marvel and DC are known for - With Marvel generally covering the lighter more colourful superhero world and DC covering the dark, nasty, psychologically disturbed sides. Not that they don't both do the other very well. When Frank Miller did the Daredevil series that went seriously dark and definitely my favourite Daredevil comic arc. Either way I'm looking forward to expanding my super hero clothing range   

American Gods also got a trailer! I'm glad its happening. If they ruin this book I will not be happy at all. If you haven' read that book I would recommend going out and reading it straight away, it really is an amazing book. Neil Gaiman is an amazing author and wrote Stardust and Neverwhere, another amazing few books. He also wrote Good Omens with the Late Terry Pratchett (who I also love). 

I might just update this again if it turns out there is something else I missed that happened, but at the moment, those are the things I am really looking forward to.

  

Pokemon Go themed T shirts and hoodies!

Well it had to be done. Pokemon Go wasn't even available in the UK, but as soon as I saw someone post about it being released in the US, I had to have it. And of course in less than 24 hours my boyfriend has declared himself as my rival. I took Charmander, he took Squirtle, we've joked about using a bicycle indoors, it was a great day.

If you haven't already downloaded Pokemon Go to your smart phone, I suggest you get on it as soon as you can, as everyone is already taking over the local Gyms and out leveling you! Haha, seriously I can spend all day on this and there are still players that are miles ahead. It's unreal. But yes for anyone who lives in a country where Pokemon Go has not yet been released, just do a google search for the apk file, you will soon be out catching them all! But of course have patience, the servers have issues from time to time, Niantic are still working out the bugs. (I think the English players who snuck on before the official release may have caused a few!)

I must say I'm having great fun with it though, it is a fantastic fitness app. I've never wanted to walk everywhere so badly! But of course it's early days for the game yet, there is so much that could be done with it and its nice to see how it's bringing people together. But don't forget guys, everyone needs to play safe. Be aware of your surroundings and don't be chasing Pokemon down dark alleys in the middle of the night, there has already been reports of muggings involving Pokemon Go. Play smart and play safe, more importantly don't let it rule your life. Resist playing in work/school or you could end up in major trouble.

So the release of Pokemon Go has inspired me to pull up a few of my Pokemon T shirts and add them to the gamer hoodie section! I don't know about where you are but here in our part of the UK the summer has been especially rainy, so my hoodies haven't really been packed away. Just sort of been included in the "summer" wardrobe. Such sad times, I really am a summer loving geek so all this rain is very disappointing.

No matter though! An old favourite is the Charizard T shirt! One of the original first generation of Pokemon, this big guy was so popular but at such a great cost. Starting pokemon Red/Blue with Charmander meant you were basically playing Pokemon in hard mode!

So from the Charizard T shirt I have decided to add into the pokemon clothing range, a Charizard hoodie.

Now maybe you were like me all those years ago, and when Pokemon yellow was released, you had to have it. Even though it was just a copy of Red and Blue, you needed to have Pikachu as your starter Pokemon right? I know! But I totally evolved mine into a Raichu. So in honour of that cute little Pokemon mascot, I give you the Pikachu hoodie.

From starters to legendary's, I can't begin to tell you how much I love Mew. The amount of times I cheated the game so that I could have Mew, even as my starter Pokemon! Pink, cute, catlike, floaty and OP as hell! I think I might actually be the person who goes out of their way to some event across the other side of the country to be able to catch a Mew.  Mew was actually one of my first T shirts for Etsy when I was still up and running a shop on there. I never actually brought the Mew T shirt into either the Ebay shop or my web store, so I thought in honour of Pokemon Go's release, I would bring back the Mew T shirt.

As a little something new for myself, I also decided to create an Ancient Mew T shirt. Ancient Mew is something I remember from the very first Pokemon Movie. The one and only Pokemon movie I ever saw. But back them when it was released to the big screen, if you bought a cinema ticket to see it you got given a promotional Pokemon card, one of which was Ancient Mew, and I happened to get one. Sadly though I sold it off on ebay a long time ago, but I still loved the artwork for it. So on a special heather purple T shirt, printed in gold print, an Ancient Mew t shirt.

Back to Pokemon Go itself though, I thought I would try and get in early on those who are really appreciating their roles as Gym leaders. If you really want the world to know that the only reason you are outside today is to catch Pokemon, (or hatch that Poke Egg of course) then why not go for a Pokemon Team T shirt? Currently available in men's T shirt (with womens t shirts soon to follow) I have the Pokemon Go Team Valor T shirt, Pokemon Go Team Mystic T shirt, and Pokemon Go Team Instinct T shirt.

I'll hopefully have the Pokemon Go Team T shirts available in women's sizes this weekend. But do check back on the Anime hoodie section too as I'll be adding these in as Pokemon Go Team hoodies as soon as I can.