SDCC: Nerds 120, Lunatic Assholes 3
You may recall that the noted fuckheads of the Westboro Church had announced they were going to be protesting the San Diego Comic Con today, since every attendee worships Batman as the divine creator of the universe or something. Well, I’m not going to dignify them with a picture of their “protest,” but it included all of three people, holding five offensive signs. But right next to them?
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More than 100 nerds, mocking the assholes beautifully. As I type, they’re still out there, holding signs like “Superman Died For Your Signs” and “God Loves Gay Robin.” They are awesome and I love them. And I’m pretty if God is out there, he loves ’em too.
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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.