Really, Bowen? A Gargoyles Statue?
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I’m guessing there are maybe three of you excited by the news that Bowen Designs — best known as one of the 8 million companies with the rights to make Marvel statues — is going to make a statue of Goliath, the star of Disney’s early ’90s cartoon Gargoyles…but for those three of you, this is likely the best news you’ve ever heard. It’s two-feet tall and will be extra limited, because…well, because it’s Gargoyles, obviously.(Via Action-Figure)
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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.