Spider-Man Is Extra Screwed
Meet the new mayor of Marvel’s New York City:
…yeah. I’m sure many Marvel fans are irked at such a ludicrous development in the Marvel U, but J. Jonah Jameson is hilariously awesome, and I’m genuinely interested to know what kind of madness is in store, you know, besides allocating half the city’s budget to killing that well-known menace Spider-Man. I love the idea that the city’s trash pick-up will utterly stop while JJJ figures out a way to make random buildings nonadhesive to Spidey’s webbing, in hopes that he’ll fall and break his damn neck. (Via Robot 6)
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.