Last Exit to Nowhere doing a Dredd T

[Steve Green]

Bog standard.

Pretty much just a variation on the Dredd badge / eagle on shoulder one FP have been selling. Much prefer it when a bit of flair wit and design, like the TUBBS GYM tshirt, gets used rather than 'plonk a picture / logo 4 square in the centre'.

Well, there's the thing - I'm sure they want to sell as many as they can of a t-shirt for a film that, let's face it, tanked at the box-office.

Yes, an Umpty-candy or Resyk t-shirt would fit in with their more obscure ranges, but they also do fairly obvious ones like the Nostromo/Weyland Utani ones.

Better to sell these, and possibly something later down the line than have a bunch of unsold stock and nothing ever again from them.

[JOE SOAP]

Well, there's the thing - I'm sure they want to sell as many as they can of a t-shirt for a film that, let's face it, tanked at the box-office.

I expect they're also doing it because they want to and not just adding to their product line. Can't blame them for going with a design that's a little more universal and obvious, or not in their case.

[Steve Green]

They're definitely 2000AD/Dredd fans and have posted about it in the past.

That said, there is a bit of a gap between what gets produced by the current licence holders, and what some fans will buy.

Bar the odd one or two, most of the unlicensed ones are pretty terrible.

[Bubba Zebill]

A Citi-Def T-Shirt would be nice. 

This is good but LETN usually do shirts for more obscure organisations within a film. Citi-Def would be great...I suggested a Resyk shirt to them this morning...it would sell like hot cakes.

[JOE SOAP]

Tharg does not disappoint:

[judda fett]

Oof that's a dope tee! Definitely second a Resyk tee too.

[BPP]

I really like pyes art and design there but the design of the T-shirt doesn't match the quality of the design on the artwork. Move the 'city-def' to the lapels or sleeves, take the central character and move him off centre (or even onto the back lower so he saluting people you've passed) makes 'I survived the DoC' a centre piece or a phrase over the chest'. Add a pocket.... All sorts of interesting choices could be done with that art but nope 'front and centre' it is..


The Anderson dress that got cancelled, the jock Dredd on the bottom left of the tshirt, the TUBBS gym and SUPERSURF tshirt a, even the Dredd with eagles on the sleeves (although the front badge was too large), the Zenith ltd - all great designs. The way-too-many Slaine tshirts, this one, last exit to nowhere one... Not so much. Comics readers tend to have really good design sense because they are exposed to a lot of really good interesting design (tonight I was marvelling at the logos to The Shaolin Cowboy & Department of Monsterology) and most tshirts just don't match up to that.


Just an opinion from the 'I'd buy more if I thought it looked better' camp. No offence to anyone who has bought and enjoyed their shirts nor to the people who make em.

[Jim_Campbell]

Comics readers tend to have really good design sense

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Priceless.

Jim

[JOE SOAP]

I really like pyes art and design there but the design of the T-shirt doesn't match the quality of the design on the artwork. Move the 'city-def' to the lapels or sleeves, take the central character and move him off centre (or even onto the back lower so he saluting people you've passed) makes 'I survived the DoC' a centre piece or a phrase over the chest'. Add a pocket.... All sorts of interesting choices could be done with that art but nope 'front and centre' it is..

It was an obscure reference t-shirt that had a very limited run. It was never going to sell thousands - even amongst fans - or be a tailored boutique item.

[Recrewt]

Tharg does not disappoint:

Yeah this was a good design.  Thought this would make a great print/poster also.

[BPP]

Comics readers tend to have really good design sense

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Priceless.

Jim

Well that was massively sneery. And in a post where I had just praised a comic you are associated with.

And I'd stick with the point, people who read comics over many years do get educated into better design sense than joe public, they tend to have a very strong visual sense and an interest in layout, design and colour choices and the mechanics of aesthetic appeal. That they may not spend a fortune on their appearance is an entirely different. Whenever a really nicely designed tshirt comes up people praise it, whenever a generic picture on the centre of the chest comes up people react based on whether they like that panel / character or not.

As for the 'popular appeal / niche' argument... All these tshirts are niche. A breakout design has more chance of cross over than does a generic panel which encounters the comics are for nerds barrier quicker.

[Richmond Clements]

Comics readers tend to have really good design sense

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Priceless.

Jim

Well that was massively sneery.

It was massively accurate. You'll seldom see more ill informed "if I was the editor this is what I would do" nonsense outside a comics forum.
Reading comics does not give one any grounding in what makes a good design. No more than travelling in a plane makes me a pilot.
This is in no way me having a go at you - just pointing out that, as someone (slightly) on the inside of the industry looking out, punters don't half talk rubbish sometimes.

[SuperSurfer]

Bear in mind that when a T-shirt appears at prices over £15 or so, there is a chorus of "it's too expensive". Adding prints all over the show would not only be garish but make for an expensive product.

I prefer plain and simple which in my opinion is good design most of the time.

Everyone is exposed to design so can't see why comic fans would have better design sense than anyone else.

The Justice Department logo is in my opinion a cool design and there is nothing wrong with sticking that on the front of a T-shirt in my book. Even though we have seen the graphic rather than how it sits on the T-shirt.

I'm sitting here at someone else's desk and he has left out an 'Art of the band T-shirt' book full of classic designs from Sex Pistols, Public Enemy, Run DMC etc. All are just prints on the front and all look v good. That is the classic look of printed Ts.

Agree with Steve's comments.  I prefer a T-shirt that relates to the film and sells rather than something obscure that tickles the nerd nerve but doesn't sell. By that I mean a T-shirt with an in joke that relatively few people will understand and even fewer people would buy.

And totally agree with Richmond.

[Jim_Campbell]

You'll seldom see more ill informed "if I was the editor this is what I would do" nonsense outside a comics forum.

Which is, of course, not something you'd ever find me doing...

[spoiler]I'll get me coat.[/spoiler]

Cheers

Jim

[shaolin_monkey]

I'm going to buy one anyway. I like it.  It'll look good alongside my DROKK shirt.

I'm still waiting for an official 'Shapiro's Hottie House' tee though!