I found this goodie while searching The Fangirls Guide To The Galaxy...

Below please enjoy this overly awesome post by Daniel Mejia. 


Last summer while browsing the Threadless site, I purchased this tee (well the tank top version)



... at no point did I bother to check out who the artist/designer was, because who cares, it's just a nice looking shirt.

Fast-Forward to January, I'm browsing the ArtFido instagram account and I run into this:

A photo posted by ## artFido.com ## (@artfido) on Jan 12, 2015 at 1:08am PST

and it's a beautiful thing. Naturally after seeing that, my next step is to follow the artist, Alex Solis (aka alexmdc). Go ahead, take that moment to browse this dudes work (you're welcome), here is just a small sample:

A photo posted by Alex Solis (@alexmdc) on Jan 16, 2015 at 4:00pm PST

These 2 guys below are part of his Famous Oldies and Famous Chunkies set (not hard to guess which is which), I only post 1 of each so you can go ahead for yourself and check out the rest of them, amongst his other stuff. Today, with the help of Threadless, he has further expanded his brand by putting his 'Famous Chunkies' designs on shirts which you can purchase over at http://www.famouschunkies.com (12 tees to start, hopefully more to be added soon.

A photo posted by Alex Solis (@alexmdc) on Jan 29, 2015 at 10:18am PST

A photo posted by Alex Solis (@alexmdc) on Nov 15, 2014 at 2:52pm PST

There has ALWAYS been so much back and forth about women in the comic book industry. Whether it's about female writers, artist, or the female characters in the comics themselves. People fight about how they're so sexually exposed and have crazy body standards for young women to look up too. There's also a way smaller percentage of female characters on TV shows and movies.

But Anyways, to not make this chat go on forever... it's not like adult women are the only ones noticing!  11 year old Rowan is the brave little soul who wrote this letter to DC Comics and honestly, I hope more little girls are growing up being taught to speak their minds just like here!



Dear DC comics,

My name is Rowan and I am 11 years old. I love superheroes and have been reading comics and watching superhero cartoons and movies since I was very young. I'm a girl, and I'm upset because there aren't very many girl superheroes or movies and comics from DC.

For my birthday, I got some of your Justice League Chibis™. I noticed in the little pamphlet that there are only 2 girl Chibis, and 10 boys. Also, the background for the girl figures was all pink and purple.

I remember watching Justice League cartoons when I was really young with my dad. There are Superman and Batman movies, but not a Wonder Woman one. You have a Flash TV show, but not a Wonder Woman one. Marvel Comics made a movie about a talking tree and raccoon awesome, but you haven't made a movie with Wonder Woman.

I would really like a Hawgirl (sic) or Catwoman or the girls of the Young Justice TV show action figures please. I love your comics, but I would love them a whole lot more if there were more girls.

I asked a lot of the people I know whether they watched movies or read books or comics where girls were the main characters, they all said yes.

Please do something about this. Girls read comics too and they care.

Sincerely, Rowan.


I was so taken by this letter and her detailed accounts about the packaging and numbers and how she went around asking her friends questions... Rowan, you rock!


Anyway, here is what DC Comics had to say via Twitter...

Remember how The Arrow (Oliver Queen) left us in the mid-season finale?




Yeah... Not Pretty Buddy!

Totally not cool crushing the hearts of geeks boys and swooning girls all over the world there ollie. In the words of Stephanie Tanner "HOW RUDE!"

Basically, for anyone who needs a quick catch up...

• Oliver admits to killing Black Canary (Sara Lance). 
• In reality, Thea Queen killed her BUT has no recollection of it.  
• Malcolm Merlyn used a plant called "votura" on Thea which basically brainwashed her and made her do what he wanted. 
• Oliver admits to Ra’s al Ghul that he killed Sara to protect Thea from being killed. 
• Oliver then duels to the death with Ra’s al Ghul. Oliver put on a poor preformance, get's stabbed with a sword through the chest, and gets kicked off a snowy mountain ledge. 
• We all presume he's dead because after that fight, I mean... C'mon. 

Xx Nubia

Here on Pop Goes The Nubia I'm going to start a segment called "Man Crush Monday" but it's not what you think.

Women are always talking about how men are disappointing them and blah, blah, blah, life sucks right? Anyway, I will rant about the men (whether they're real or fictionally) who have disappointed me or in other words CRUSHED ME. I'm not here to talk about how hot you may or may not be.

I'm going to start with one of my latest heartbreaks... Oliver Queen.



Who's a fan of the CW's amazing TV show Arrow? You Know the one based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow? I'm a BIG one. But then...

WTF IS THIS?


In case you're having a hard time processing it, here's a better look. THIS.