TrashMall: August 2014 Edition

Journeymen Deadshirters Mike Pfeiffer and Max Robinson are the Trash Boys. In TrashMall, they bring you the hottest products and apparel from thrift stores, vintage shops and other retail hotspots around New York’s five boroughs. This month they scraped the bottom of a recently-opened Five Below. Terminator Hunter Killer Tank Building Set  Quantity: Read More …

In This Very Ring: Most Likely To Succeed, or, Who Got NXT?

Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Multiversity, Diversity and Autobot Adversity

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …

Your Deadshirt New Comics Shopping List for: August 20th, 2014

It’s Wednesday and that means new comics. Let Deadshirt steer your wallet in the right direction with reviews (with preview pages) of titles out today from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Boom! Studios, Archie, MonkeyBrain, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Action Lab, and more!   The Fade Out #1 Written by Read More …

Never Had A Friend Like Him: A Memorial for Robin Williams

When celebrities of any sort pass away, we have a tendency to react in two divergent ways. One: we maybe connect ourselves to these complete strangers we never knew on a personal basis, over-identifying with their death and perhaps perpetuating the ongoing cult of fame Read More …

The Expendables 3, or: The Modern Brometheus [Review]

Sylvester Stallone’s “Grumpy Old Men-with-Napalm” action franchise was initially an attempt to do an Avengers-style team-up of your favorite action stars–Stallone! Statham! Jet Li! Lundgren! uhhh Randy Couture? Oh, Terry Crews? Alright, yeah!–before Marvel’s actual Avengers movie came out. The first and second installments’ big Read More …

The Rundown: Greg Rucka’s Detective Comics is Batman for HBO

In The Rundown, Deadshirt dives into our cardboard long boxes to shine a light on important, unusual or otherwise remarkable comic runs (mainstream or otherwise) from a specific creative team. The Series Detective Comics (vol. 1) #742-753, 755-775 Art by Shawn Martinbrough, Phil Hester, Rich Burchett, Read More …