Merry belated Christmas (or other winter holiday of your choice), everyone!

Once again, a great many of the subs up for your (and my) voting pleasure have a hefty dose of awesomeness thrown in and deserve your stamp of approval so that I (and you) can wear them on my (our) Threadless-loving bodies.  A few of my favorites from the current submissions (my apologies to the amazing artists whose work I didn’t include here; there’s too many to choose from to get you all up here):

Who doesn’t love a robot in a bowler hat? Not I. But this isn’t a robot. It’s a gentleman. A gentleman in a bowler hat who only appears to be made from riveted metal and one long, cylindrical laser beam eye. After all, how many robots do you know who look like Charlie Chaplin? Not many, I’d be willing to wager. This is clearly a gentleman. All he needs is a cup of Earl Grey tea in one of those fancy blue and white teacups and some scones. And maybe a (robotic) hunting dog at his feet. This guy’s got class. My only criticism is that I’m not completely sold on the fancy, non-handwritten font that “I am a Gentleman” is written in. It doesn’t quite jive with the rest of the design (I prefer the original, myself), but it’s a small nitpick of an otherwise awesome design.

My verdict: $5 (View submission)

Everyone needs a dinosaur shirt. Admit it, the four-year-old inside of you is wide-eyed in wonder when you contemplate this sub in all its glow-in-the-dark glory. It’s got dinosaurs (really nicely executed, adorable dinosaurs) with glowing bones. Glowing bones. If that doesn’t scream “awesome,” then I don’t know what does. Sure, it’s reminiscent of something you might find in a museum gift shop, only a million times better. Museum gift shop shirts wish they could be as awesome as this design. They weep tears of bitter jealousy when comparing their own mediocreness to Steggy Pop. True story.

My verdict: $5 (View submission)

I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t ever actually read all of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in spite of being an avid and incrurable bookworm (or even seen the movie for that matter, because I’d rather read the book if I’m going to find out the entire story), but I love this design anyway. Whether or not it’ll be acceptable, copyright-wise, I have no idea (I’m not, nor do I have any desire to be, a copyright lawyer), but it still gets my $5 vote. The linework is incredible (clean but elegant), the design itself is beautifully composed and the characters have character. It looks like a page right out of a children’s fantasy book and that’s not a bad thing by any means. Plus, we, the Threadless buyers, need more shirts this color. Do you hear me, Threadless? I demand more dark red shirts! Don’t make me shake my fist at you.

My verdict: $5 (View submission)

Until next time, go forth and vote!