Fabio Was Thor (Very Briefly)
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No, not the Marvel superhero. Just the Norse god in a Thor cartoon the mush-mouthed, buttery male model had commissioned back in 1997. You know, Marvel has such a lock on Thor that it’s easy for me to forget that he’s in the public domain of mythology, so anyone can really write anything with the thunder god (although does DC have a Thor? I have no idea). Of course, that doesn’t mean Fabio’s take doesn’t seem more than a little indebted to Marvel’s version, plus — as A Distant Soil‘s Colleen Cover Doran points out on her blog, the tagline for the series is apparently “With power comes responsibility.” Followed by some serious lawsuits, one imagines. (Via Newsarama)
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.