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My very first design – Mercutio Drew First! The one that started it all – way back in 2010. My all-time best seller.
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This one was so popular, in fact, that it was my first design to be ripped off – something that happens all the time on Amazon. Always look for the “Shakespeare Geek” brand! Accept no substitutes!
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“Mercutio Drew First” is the perfect flash-point where the cantina meets the Capulets. Every Shakespeare geek knows that the moment Tybalt strides in looking for Romeo, it’s Mercutio who unsheathes steel first, igniting the duel that topples Verona’s fragile peace. Star Wars fans, meanwhile, have spent decades arguing over who squeezed a trigger first in a very different dusty street. By superimposing the two debates, the phrase “mercutio drew first” lets both camps recognize the same impulse: a swaggering sidekick who refuses to let an insult slide, whether the weapon is a vibro-blade or a rapier. It is the Shakespeare geek’s version of spotting a TIE fighter in the negative space of Hamlet’s silhouette—proof that iambic pentameter and ion cannons occupy the same imaginative galaxy.
This crossover runs deeper than a single meme. Shakespeare’s plays have always been our cultural source code, hidden in plain sight inside everything from Kurosawa’s samurai epics to the Skywalker saga. When we claim that “mercutio drew first,” we are reminding the world that the Bard’s swaggering duelists and Lucas’s roguish scoundrels share the same DNA: quick wit, tragic bravado, and the momentary heroism that alters fate. In celebrating that overlap, we do what every true Shakespeare geek lives for—spotting the quill inside the lightsaber, the groundlings in the cantina crowd, and the timeless heartbeat of drama pulsing beneath every fandom we love.