Scott Pilgrim Takes on the Universe Today
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FYI, the fifth Scott Pilgrim book comes out today, and everyone needs to get it. It’s only hitting comic stores for now — the mass market gets the book in a couple of weeks, theoretically — so don’t bother hitting Barnes & Noble. Also, New York magazine has a six-page preview of the volume right here, where it’s revealed that Ramona used to date hot half-Japanese twins (yikes!), so whet your appetite with it, and then go. Buy it. It’s the rules.
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.