A Watchmen Post That’s Not Actually Bad News
Watchmen Exclusive
…because it’s just another one of those MySpace watchmen featurettes, worth watching because there’s a lot of new footage tucked away in there, including Moloch, Doc Manhattan actually disintegrating a Vietnamese soldier, the tenement fire, Mars, and more. Non-haters, there’s plenty to be excited by. Haters, you may continue to hate in the comments–actually, one of the clips of Silk Spectre seemed especially dodgy to me–but I don’t think you can hate on director Zack Snyder’s incredibly obtuse character descriptions, because remember, this feature is for MySpace and its denizens, 60% are teenage whores. He’s describing the characters to them, not us, so I don’t think this is evidence of him not “getting it.” Just sayin’. (Via /Film)
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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.