Q: What’s 12 Inches Long and Referred to as Snake Eyes?
A: The upcoming 12-inch G.I. Joe figure from Sideshow Toys. If you were thinking “a penis,” you were close, but that’s referred to as a “one-eyed trouser snake.” Easy mistake. Anyways, Sideshow released the above teaser image of their first 12-inch Joe at the same time that Hasbro announced that IDW will get the Joe comic license. They’ll release the first comic in October, and re-release collections of the old stuff, which is cool. A good day for Joe fans.
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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.