Patton Oswalt, Firefly Fan Fic Author
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?Patton Oswalt has always been very up front about being a huge nerd. He’s cool like that. Now he has a recurring role in the BSG prequel Caprica and made a few appearances on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, and is becoming part of nerd entertainment as opposed to a fan of it. But his newest job might be his nerdiest yet — writing a Firefly comic for Dark Horse, due out in June. It’ll be a one-shot comic called Serenity: Float Out, set after the movie… but all about Alan Tudyk’s character Wash, as three friends hold an elegy for him and remember their favorite Wash tales. There’s nothing about this that doesn’t sound perfectly swell. (Via CBR and Techland)
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.