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The gift-giving season may be well behind us, but don't let that stop you from buying yourself a little something. After all, clothing is a basic human necessity! Or at least that's what I tell myself as I am filling out the checkout forms. If you need an extra push to help rationalize your geeky expenditures, consider the cold winter weather. I'm sure plenty of these great t-shirt designs are available as hoodies as well.
Even though you may have been off for the holidays, the steady march of great new t-shirts has not slowed down one bit. In fact, many online shirt vendors were putting out some of their top work to capitalize on the fourth quarter shopping frenzy. Check out the images below to see which designs were at the top of the class last month.
Nobody ever doubted that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo in particular, could party with the best. What we didn't know was whether that green ooze gave them some sort of food coma-prevention powers. Woot.com provides the answer: unfortunately not. Or perhaps maybe somebody ordered anchovies.
Monsters of Grok is a peculiar t-shirt shop, but what did you expect coming from the guy with an entire line dedicated to putting top hats and monocles on cute animals. Every shirt at Monsters of Grok takes the name of an iconic scientist and re-imagines it in the design of a rock band logo. Nikola Tesla was the shop's most recent target, and the result is a high water mark for the shop. Typically, the shirts are just amusing pairings, but Tesla mashed-up with AC/DC provides added pun potential.
The Daily Robot has been rolling out a whole line of Mega Man characters in pop art style, but the design above is the best of the bunch. Mega Man may be the the main attraction, but true geeks know Proto Man has him dead to rights in the cool department (after all, he did come first).
T-shirt designer Ian Leino has created an excellent pub-style rendition of Twitter's iconic fail whale, reminding us in the process of the best way to pass the time when Twitter is down.
Maybe it wasn't quite as easy to tell back in those 8-bit days, but modern gamers have no excuse. It may sound elitist, and it's not an easy lot in life, but sometimes it comes down to us geeks to teach the ignorant masses. Having a great-looking t-shirt to help out makes the job a bit easier. Next up is the Samus Aran/Metroid confusion, though, so get on that one, BustedTees.
Don't tell anyone I'm cheating! This shirt actually just launched at Shirt.Woot, so while it's technically a January release, the design is just too good not to share while I'm rounding up the best of December. What we really need to be asking ourselves is what is that honeydew melon doing in a laboratory? It must be part of some food science study.
