Big Lob, Triumphant
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?It’s taken 22 years, but one Real American Hero has finally gotten his due. Big Lob, the sports commentatin’ Joe from G.I. Joe: The Movie, will receive his first action figure ever when he’s made as an exclusive for the 2010 Official G.I. Joe Collector Club. Two things: 1) like many people, I find it odd that Big Lob never had a figure, as he was significantly less goofy than several Joes that made it to toy shelves, and 2) the other exclusive figure is a 12-inch Joe who looks kind of like Justin Timberlake from the “Dick in a Box” video, so I’m not bothering to show him but you can check him out over at Poe Ghostal.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.