This article comes from the upcoming digital edition of George Khoury’s Comic Book Fever, available for pre-order via TwoMorrows Publishing. As a kid, there was nothing worse than the ordeal of ...

It’s a pretty fine time to be a nerd. We have an abundance of big-budget superhero movies, we have some phenomenal scifi and fantasy TV, and you can pretty much get a toy of anything. But there’s one ...

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I can admit I haven't ever shopped at the store Hot Topic. But that might change after the news I received today. They're selling Underoos. Remember those superhero undies you begged your mom to get ...

The Gods of Geekdom have finally listened. After many a year, i09 discovered that our long-held wish of cosplaying our favorite comic book characters while bumming around the bedroom is finally a ...

Today is a good day. Oh, I’m sure there’s plenty of terrible things going on in the world right now, but today is the day that Underoos, the incredible t-shirt-underpants-minimalist cosplay underwear ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. After decades in which men and women were forced to settle for drab, ordinary underwear that did not resemble a superhero costume, Hot Topic has ...

Because some people refuse to grow up, there are now Underoos for adults. They were big with children in the early 1980s. The “underwear that’s fun to wear” is sold at a store called Hot Topic. It has ...