Rex Velvet Is Truly the People’s Villain
Rex Velvet, self-proclaimed archenemy of Seattle real-life superhero Phoenix Jones, has made a new, totally awesome video calling out Jones while driving a DeLorean and dropping bottles of flammable booze and generally just being totally awesome (as previously mentioned). The most mind-blowing part for me might be Rex’s ridiculously phenomenal mustache ring. Rex, I beg of you — make ring replicas available for sale! Let me bask in your malevolent glory while helping fund your criminal empire! It’s win-win! For everybody except Phoenix Jones, I guess. But that’s like another win for you! (Via FilmDrunk)
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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.