Very much agree. And I’m okay that it’s all clothes, but the selection is, sadly, very frustrating.
A rant here, but I have never understood why the officially licensed merch is so bad. There are websites devoted to unauthorized mech that are FULL of better designs, using DC intellectual property without permission. Warner Brothers/DC seems a lot more lax than Disney/Marvel at issuing takedown notices, but what I will never understand is why these companies don’t just go to these massive sites and hire those artists instead of whoever puts this garbage together. (Sorry, whoever designed some of this, but not really.) People on these sites make money off DC IP, and DC has the absolute best symbols to put on shirts, far better than their competition, but they don’t monetize it well.
I love Jim Lee covers. But a rectangle pasted on a t-shirt, the full cover, is lazy and not good graphic design. I can get a dozen WW84 shirts that are just marketing a movie, or a Doom Patrol shirt that unnecessarily has “DC” over it, but TONS of valuable characters are missing. Simple logos like Green Lantern, Aquaman, Nightwing, Shazam, Robin aren’t there. Let alone I can get lots of other logos on other sites, like Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, Mr. Terrific, Reverse Flash, Red/Orange/Blue/Yellow/Indigo/Violet/Black/White Lanterns, Legion, Elongated Man, Captain Atom, Firestorm, and tons of stuff from the Arrowverse. And that’s just what I found in five minutes.
Drives me crazy. I’ll probably hang onto my voucher for awhile hoping to get some better options. But please, whoever is in charge, STOP pasting stuff from comic book covers. Those images were designed for comic panels, not t-shirts. Hire real graphic designers, and just use costumes and symbols before branching out into legitimate graphic design. Heck, go steal these artists designs - they’re illegally profiting off of you, what can they really do about it?
Now excuse me while I go buy this awesome Cosmic Boy shirt I found on RedBubble while trying to prove a point.