Topless Robot Self-Pleasure: Meet Heartless Doll!
I interrupt you from your daily schedule of nerdery to introduce the newest member of the Village Voice Media blog empire republic loose confederation family, and what is certainly the closest thing Topless Robot has to a real sister blog. It’s Heartless Doll, which is like a girly TR, for things girls are traditionally nerdy for like Judy Blume books, Gossip Girl, um…make-up…unicorns…Lisa Frank notebooks covers…you know, the ladies there could probably explain it better than me.
At any rate, since I’m quite the gentleman, I gave them a welcome present of “Batman’s Gal Pals Graded,” which rates the ladies in Batman’s comics, movies and TV series. I’d like to invite you all over there to read it and say hi (but please wipe your shoes off before you come in, because chicks hate that. And use a coaster).
About The Author
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.