Swipe File T-Shirts, Black Adam To Mage To Killers

[Rich Johnston]

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Cosplay could get very boring all of a sudden.

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[dEV]

I wish Graffiti still made the Kevin Matchstick shirt. Mine is well-worn and about 15 years old. For that matter, I wish Matt Wagner would get back to making some Mage comics.

[The Xenos]

Lazy? Naw. Any cosplayer that makes himself a glowing baseball bat is all right in my book. A friend of mine who has one of those shirts kept saying he was going to do it. Then again he also has a million other ideas and projects to make. And then he got into cosplay commissions and never really got into cosplaying himself.

[db8coach]

I wish Graffiti still made the Kevin Matchstick shirt. Mine is well-worn and about 15 years old. For that matter, I wish Matt Wagner would get back to making some Mage comics.

I wish Matt Wagner would put together a Complete Grendel in order.

[Evan Meadow]

I wish Matt Wagner would put together a Complete Grendel in order.

Isn't that what we're getting with the Grendel Omnibuses? Minus the Batman/Grendel stuff of course.

[db8coach]

there are going to be Grendel Omnibi?

[thecomicbookshop.co.uk]

there are going to be Grendel Omnibi?

There's already a Hunter Rose volume, the second, titled Legacy, comes out next week.

[Evan Meadow]

There's already a Hunter Rose volume, the second, titled Legacy, comes out next week.

Legacy came out two weeks ago. Its waiting for me at the LCS round here for me to pick up. 3rd Volume is already up for pre-order on Amazon.

[thecomicbookshop.co.uk]

strange, it's in my delivery for the New Year.

[Evan Meadow]

strange, it's in my delivery for the New Year.

Weather delay to Britain possibly?