There was a bunch of cool stuff on clearance at 80stees.com and with the Summer of ’82 going on, I couldn’t help myself to get some appropriate apparel for attending certain movies, especially after I gave my Spock Blocker shirt away.
First up are the oldies which will be mandatory when we see a couple of the key Sci-Fi flicks. When it comes to Star Trek, funny stuff is always a winner.
With TRON, the shirt manufacturers tend to have pretty limited imaginations, ergo the collage of key characters.
This final one below I was enamored by through all the awesome colors in the design. A person who was obviously born in the late Eighties asked me about its source, the TV show. I had to tell him, Buck Rogers was a product of its time. Translation: not very good, especially when you start to list off the guest stars. Still, it made a fantastic shirt.
Now moving on to the next decade people are starting to mine in order to satisfy our collective need for nostalgia…the Nineties. This should always be remembered for bringing us the TV Animation Renaissance. Samurai Jack receives a small pass because it began in 2001 but was created by key people who put the Cartoon Network on the map.
Many people have mixed feelings over the Eds. The show won me over immediately since the writers tapped into the neighborhood dynamic with children. When I was growing up, there were kids like Kevin, Johnny (being in his own world, not the imaginary friend), Sarah, Naz and Jimmy around my block. Me? I was a cross-between Eddy and Edd minus the former’s greed, need for acceptance and the latter’s OCD. My brother Brian would be a hybrid of Kevin and Eddy.
Now that Seth MacFarlane is considered the King of Animation for Fox Sundays, I hope Time Warner will finally release the rest of this cartoon he helped jump start. Sure he wasn’t around for the latter seasons yet it continued to be the cornerstone of CN until the late Aughts.
Lastly, Samurai Jack. A triumph of style (no black outlines), technique and storytelling. I’m not sure if Boomerang shows this as they do with Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls and Dexter’s Laboratory. I probably should hunt down the DVDs to get re-acquainted. This show is similar to The Prisoner, you can see most of it out of sequence except for the beginning and vague ending.
Should you want any of them when I retire any in a couple years, to make room for others, let me know. I’ll take good care of them: wash inside out in cold water, air dry exclusively!