Thank you, Blockheads!
The CAL-V.1N T-shirt Drive, which at times looked like it might crash and burn like the very economy it was flying in the face of, has succeeded, and then some! A last minute spurt of orders pushed me over the top, which guarantees that there will be T-shirts for this generation and the next.
So first, let me thank Eywa, the great mother spirit whose life forces courses through us all. But in the runner-up position is all of you put the green in my pocket and enabled me to plop a new product in my store. Thanks!
These pre-order drives are really essential for keeping the strip going, too. The time-to-profit ratio involved in putting this strip out every week would make a plantation slave look like Warren Buffet. Things like the T-shirts and Megaton Packs are what enable me to fund my convention appearances and keep me in the public eye. Without help from you guys, I wouldn’t have the money I need to have products ready in time or my shows. So, give yourelves a pat on the back!
And now, the moment you have endured the last three paragraphs for! Using my MIT-designed random luckiness generator, I am happy to announce that the winner of the free piece of artwork that I promised to one lucky customer is: Rene Castellano of Chicago Illinois!
Congratulations Rene! And as for you disappointed and angry customers, please feel free to contact me for Rene’s home address.
The T-shirts will be ordered this week and shipped out as soon as I receive them from the printer. Keep watching your mailbox!
Are you watching? If you are reading this you aren’t watching. Watch your goddamn mailbox!!!
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
congrats Rene.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Excellent. Grats all around.
Now where the hell’s my goddam Pops t-shirt?
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Well, let’s get the ball rolling! Anyone who wants a Pops T-shirt in the next few months, speak out! Feel free to suggest the design as well.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Although I didn’t manage to get in on the Calvin drive, and I still do plan to buy one, I second the Pops shirt (in fact, I suggested one a while back, don’t make me look for it), and either in the pose on before he punches the glass for Hilda back in WB 126 (which is where I first posited the Pops shirt, BTW) or leaning against a wall (removed from frame), arms folded across chest, one eye giving you the eye, smoke curling from his pipe around his head, giving him a smoky threat…in fact, to make it slide in alongside the Sin City-esue Chuck and Calvin, that smoke could even envelop him all around…Ooh, one last one, kinda like pose 1, except he’s punching out of the shirt itself, or about to….
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:23 pm
No, wait, Lonnie, ???, and Jody suggested one, and I seconded them, which I guess was actually fourthing it from Lonnie
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:31 pm
I’d buy a shirt with Snoop flying his doghouse on it.
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:44 pm
I think a Pops T-shirt would have good outreach potential for people that aren’t into, or haven’t be introduced to, Weapon Brown. He’s immediately recognizable and iconic. People look at him and go “whoa, freaky badass Popeye”.
The only other comparable image I could think of in the Weapon Brown universe would be the one you did of Snoop sitting on his doghouse. Which would also make a fine T, incidentally.
But I digress. I’d totally buy a Pops shirt. Nuff said.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:48 pm
And again, I second/third/who gives a fuck the Pops shirt idea, and I second Jody’s point about expanding the audience…..I know my WB shirt gets notice and query every so often, even if the image isn’t as close to the iconic image of Chuck as Pops would be to his inspiration
March 4th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Pops shirt sounds good to me!
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Keep the comments coming! If the “yeas” hit a critical mass I will put my balls on the line for a Pops shirt drive!
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March 7th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
JY – pops would be cool, but I’d really like another WB shirt. Maybe the one where he is carrying Snoop in the dream sequence from a few days ago if the “beep beep beep” was removed (this comic: http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/03/01/weapon-brown-144/)
or the 2nd or 4th frame from this comic: http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/01/18/weapon-brown-132/
Pops would be okay, but I’d really like to see another WB shirt, with Snoop in it possibly.
March 10th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Can I have Renes address so I can go over there and steal the WB page? Nah,just kidding.
Looking forward to get my CAL-V.1N t-shirt
March 13th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
The Waiting Is KILLING Me! 10 Days, No food, No water, No bathroom breaks, Sitting at my computer looking out the window watching the mailbox. Work has quit calling, My friends have given up. The mailman looks more and more afraid everyday….
March 16th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
…still…waiting…still…watching…always watching…watching…heh heh heh… I’m watching…
March 20th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
The green elephant says its all a lie and the mailman is plotting against me. The purple pencil tells me the elephant is wrong. But mommy told me that pencils lie. But this one is purple so I can’t tell……How can I tell???
March 24th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
the ma..chine that th.. th.. thinks for me. t…t…told me it’s on its way. It’s on its way. It’s On Its Way. IT’S ON ITS WAY. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
March 29th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
mine arrived today! so fraggin’ goood.