Not Everything Is Coming Up Hellboy
You know why? Because this is a Hellboy slot machine, and probably 9 times out of the 10 you insert money, all you’re going to do is lose that money. Comic Vine dug up this apparently recently Hellboy-themed slot machine, which is notable not only for being based on the comic Hellboy — complete with Mike Mignola art — but, you know, being Hellboy. I certainly don’t mind, and I don’t think Hellboy is the most obscure character ever, but I would’ve thought there would have been a lot of properties higher on a theoretical list of comics to make slot machines out of. Actually, I would have bet anything that Japan would make a Hellboy slot machine before America would have. I guess I would have thrown that money away, too. Thanks to David C. for the tip.
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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.