So, here's the deal on those purple and yellow shirts.

On saturday, I went to FLUKE and I sold some things. Among those things were some of the 2nd pressing of the Atomic Elbow t-shirt.

I had 12 of them. Then I said something about them online and then 12 people bought shirts.

Here is what I have left as of right now:

• Nothing

I apologize to the people who had asked me about larger sizes. I completely sold out of XXL and XXXL shirts on Saturday. I will make more of this shirt (on a different color) sometime this summer. In the meantime, if you want one of the sizes listed above, go get it now at the Atomic Elbow Online Store. They're still nine dollars, but I'm charging fifty cents more for postage than I did for the first pressing of this shirt because postage rates went up and I lost my job, so I have to pay for envelopes now. Sorry...

Oh, and Issue 6 should be out in late June, a single-volume collection of issues 1-4 is planned for the summer, and I should have new stickers in about a month. Issues 1, 2, 3, and 5 are still available in the store.

Atomic Elbow T-shirts: Second Pressing.

More Atomic Elbow t-shirts were made. This time they're yellow on purple.

Thanks to everyone at Shirtworks in Athens for their help with these.

They will be available at FLUKE 2013 on April 6th and any that remain after that will go on sale at the Atomic Elbow Online Store. They're still gonna be $9 but I may have to slightly increase shipping charges. More than slightly if you live outside the United States. I'll let you know.

ERRATUM

There is a somewhat embarrassing error in the first printing of the 5th issue of The Atomic Elbow. If you have already purchased the 5th issue, please download and print this document.

Thank you.

The Atomic Elbow Number Five.

Remember how King Kong Bundy used to make the referee count to five when he pinned whoever it was he was wrestling against? And now, on his Twitter account, he ends everything he posts with a big all-caps "FIVE" or whatever? I'm not sure what this has to do with anything really except that every time I think about issue number five, I picture Bundy standing there, five fingers spread out, braggin'.

Anyway, the fifth issue of The Atomic Elbow is done.

It's got a lot of stuff about Hulk Hogan in it. I'm not sure how that happened, but it did. By the way, that's Ray "The Crippler" Stevens on the cover. I don't know who the unfortunate man on the mat is. This one starts off with a pretty comprehensive history of Monday Night Raw in Chicago from Scott T. Holland.

There's an interview with Reed Bentley from Wrestling is Heart.

Then the Hulk Hogan content starts up with an article from Danielle Matheson of The Mandible Claw.

This issue also features part one of an ongoing series that will be the ultimate episode guide to Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling.

Stewart Voegtlin and Beaver of (among other things) Chips & Beer magazine are back. This time they're focusing on Dusty Rhodes and his gross, disgusting eyeball.

There's also an examination of the AWA's Super Sunday from 1983. Hulk Hogan's in this one, too.

This issue's ready and waiting for you in the Atomic Elbow online store. I've also re-stocked the previously out-of-print issues 1, 2, and 3. I think this will be the last time those are reprinted. I'm planning a single volume compilation of the first four issues. It will probably be out this summer. But we're not here to talk about that now, are we? Go get your copy of issue number five! Thanks!

The Atomic Elbow Issue Number Four.

Well, you guys... we did it. Four issues of this thing came out in the same calendar year. I don't know why that matters, but it does.



I'm pretty proud of this one. I mean, I'm pretty proud of all of them, but this guy's got what it takes, you know? I apologize for my pride. I hope you don't think I'm bragging. Anyway, this one's got an "On the Road" report that I wrote about the time I went to two Chikara shows:



An interview with comics artist, ring gear designer and super nice person Jill Thompson:



An article about The Great American Bash 1992 by Chris Sims:



An interview with Chuck Taylor featuring photos by Zia Hiltey:



An article about Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy by Stewart Voegtlin with an illustration by Beaver:



And a comic by Phil Redmon:



That's not all it's got. There's some other stuff in this one, too, but I didn't feel like taking any more pictures because it was time to eat dinner. I can't find my camera, anyway. I took all those pictures with my phone. Welcome to the future.

You can, as always, buy the Atomic Elbow at The Official Atomic Elbow Online Store.

Thanks!

So, here's what's going on...

Trying like hell to get the 4th issue out by the end of the year. Not sure if it's going to happen, but no matter what it's gonna be close. It's gonna be really good, though. And I'm still gonna call it a 2012 issue even if it's actually printed in January, but I'm hoping it won't come to that.

Most of it is on this flash drive right here on my desk. It's a yellow 4GB flash drive made by Memorex. Not that the 4th issue is 4GB in size, mind you. It's like 100MB or something. But that's before I convert it to a .pdf.

This is the kind of stuff you guys like knowing, right?

So, I have these t-shirts...

Hey, you know how you like wearing shirts? Or, maybe you don't like that. In which case, you know how the social contract kind of dictates that you put a shirt on when you go out in public? Well, I'm sure you have many, many fine shirts in your wardrobe, but I would like to suggest that you maybe add another one to the collection. I hope that's not too forward of me. You see, I have some shirts here that have the name of my wrestling fanzine and a wrestling related image on them.



I almost typed that I made these shirts, but other than editing the fanzine named in the shirt's image, I basically did nothing to make these shirts exist. The art was created by the UK's greatest living visual artist who has ever designed a t-shirt for my wrestling fanzine, Sean Wárs. Here's a better look at that art before it was changed to line art for screen-printing purposes:


You guys, I have no idea how to type that diacritical mark over the "a" in Sean's name, so I have to google and copy/paste it every time I type it. I should probably learn to use my computer. Oh, wasn't I writing about t-shirts?



So, these shirts were designed by Sean Wárs and screen-printed by my friend Mike. I was going to help him do it, but we couldn't ever work out our schedules and Mike is super nice so he just went ahead and did it himself. He didn't have to do that. Mike is awesome. Mike runs a record label called Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records and you should click on that link and buy lots of stuff. Oh, but also buy one of my shirts. I'm getting to that part.

This is a die-hard limited edition t-shirt. There are only 40 of them. I'm only going to sell 32. This means that I'll be selling 8 each of sizes small, medium, large and extra large. I know that some people will want a shirt that is outside of this size range and I'm seriously sorry that I cannot accomodate you right now. If these sell well, I'll probably do another run in different colors that will include a wider range of sizes.

And now we come to the delicate matter of payment. Look, I feel pretty bad about asking you to give me money for the "privilege" of walking around with an advertisement for my 'zine on you. Most t-shirts people wear are basically billboards, and when you think about it, paying for a t-shirt with a logo on it is essentially the same as giving Pizza Hut or whatever a handful of cash and then they get to paint a Pizza Hut ad on your roof. They've got your money and you're doing their promotional work for them. That's a pretty good deal, if you're Pizza Hut. So in this equation, I suppose I'm Pizza Hut. Sorry for being Pizza Hut, you guys. I probably shouldn't have typed all that. Maybe I just typed myself out of some sales.

Anyway, I'm going to have to charge money for these shirts. I looked around and it seems like ten dollars is a pretty fair price for a t-shirt, so I'm selling these for nine. The US Postal Service will charge me around $3.50 to mail these things to you in the US, $5.00 to Canada and Mexico, and $10.50 to send one to any destination not on the continent of North America.

So, buy some shirts at the Official Atomic Elbow Online Store. I'll send you a sticker, too.