Comments on: Franco Shades New Illustrator: Jon Contino

By: Wrekshop Ryan

Wrekshop Ryan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:36:40 +0000

I hate to say it but I agree with Deception^ I love Arlo but lets start representing some positive stuff on the t-shirts. We aren’t all quitters and losers here.

By: speakonit

speakonit — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:27:18 +0000

It looks like a Paul Frank designer got added to replace a legend.
I’ll go GOST too.

By: Tompaul

Tompaul — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:06:03 +0000

Meh, don’t really like em, I’d maybe wear the airport tag one..

..I reckon I’m gonna be more of a Gost person. These just aren’t the same without Arlo.

By: seba

seba — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:15:38 +0000

franco shade was dope before arlo , try learning some history

By: Jou

Jou — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:49:23 +0000

looks ok but arlo is a legend

By: kaseta

kaseta — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:37:21 +0000

why not have other artist? yea it does look like a different style, but arent they trying to keep it similar? do you think that nike has the same artist for every shirt or shoe design? no…. but just for the record i could do better than that stuff, arlo hit me up

By: CoachRollingVision

CoachRollingVision — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:32:38 +0000

hmm yea mmna! i like but then again nope

By: mothraw

mothraw — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:12:31 +0000

‘boarding’?? regardless of the design as a ‘travel’ shirt
no rollerblader will want ‘boarding’ written on their shirt
there’s enough of an identity crisis already
arlo is franco shade..without him … theres only fp films and that died years ago.
sad :(

By: poop

poop — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:05:05 +0000

of course you can’t replace arlo but they need a new artist, so they got one.

Anyways, the line for spring is nice, but those logo things don’t look that great in my opinion. I do love the hammer however.

By: AustinG.

AustinG. — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:22:13 +0000

Gay now.
Used to be alright.

By: ilayfatdumps

ilayfatdumps — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:15:17 +0000

gay, always been gay.

By: RobF

RobF — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:17:56 +0000

yeah but you were the coolest 12 year old in town Jay Cottrell.

this stuff seems like an arloesque copy. not good not bad.

By: Jay Cottrell

Jay Cottrell — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:59:02 +0000

I dont know why people like cartooons on their shirts anyway, I thought it was lame when I was 12

By: jo

jo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:17:48 +0000

the hoe is you seba…arlo was the man, frsh isnt as good as before…its only a small copy of itself nowadays. its like arlo took the whole style with him leaving FRSH and founded gost, so these new design are quiet cool, but in a comparison to arlos artworks, they look like poor copies to me. arlo is such a great artist, you cant replace him…in my opinion frsh will only survive because of the good image it had with arlo..alone its nothing… so good luck to arlo and “gost”… by the way..there is a huge lack of love in these new illustrations, they look cold and flat to me, what you wont find in the old ones at all…arlos stuff was so deep and lovely, so much details, YOU CANT REPLACE HIM!

By: Decepticon

Decepticon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:01:58 +0000

Fucking embarrassing to know one of the leading companies in rollerblading tries to make us look like LAZY, QUITTING, CUMMY LOVIN SONS OF GUNS.
Stop making us look like we don’t care. Its not cool and its not clever… Great move getting rid of Arlo – he was destroying the brand, now step away from this ‘quitters never lose’ bollocks and scrap the new slogan ‘busy doing nothing’.
Come up with something intelligent for a change. Go back to your roots.

By: seba

seba — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:43:22 +0000

glad to see some real franco shade , joe dont listen to theese hoes ,they dont know

By: dizzy

dizzy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:42:13 +0000

Yeah can’t replace Arlo.

By: NathanH

NathanH — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:38:01 +0000

I prefer Gost Brand…

By: Pretty Weak

Pretty Weak — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:19:11 +0000

This shit is corny, why are they even posting this up on rollernews? You extorted the sport enough already. Take your shit elsewhere.