BRPD Buddies Are Like Hellboy Heroes
You may hate Hasbroes’ kiddie-fied Heroes series (and I’m sorry about your lack of a capacity for joy) but surely you can still appreciate Mezco and Mike Mignola aping the style of Marvel’s Superhero Squad and the like for these cute BRPD Buddies. The two-packs include Hellboy and a Golden Army Soldier, Hellboy and Abe Sapien, Prince Nuada and Wink, and Hellboy and Johann Kraus, all from Hellboy II (although Liz Sherman is strangely absent). They’re due in June and you can get the whole set for $32 over at Big Bad Toy Store, which seems reasonable until you think about it and realize that’s $8 per pack, so I suggest not thinking about it.
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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.