Jar Jar Knows What He Did
I know not many of you share my love for Hasbro’s pre-school-friendly Heroes toylines, but I had to show off this pic of the upcoming Galactic Heroes Padm? and the guiltiest-lookin’ motherfucker in the galaxy. Just look at him?shame all over his face, bug eyes constantly looking out for the next angry mob, his shoulders hunched and hood over his stupid Gungan face, trying to hide in the crowd. This is a toy of an alien who knows what he did was wrong, but doesn’t quite have the guts to toss himself in the Sarlacc. Impressive, Hasbro sculpting department. Most impressive.
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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.