TR Contest: Superhero Yourselves
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?A.k.a the “kick your own ass” contest. No, I don’t have any Kick-Ass stuff to give away (actually, I don’t have my new batch of TR shirts in either, but I assume they’re coming in pretty soon) but I figured the movie was a big enough deal that it could inspire a contest.
So turn yourself into a superhero. I at least need a superhero name, but bonus points will be given for describing your method of fighting crime and your costume, maybe your preferred targets if you have them — but you’re all just lower middle-class Batmen for the purposes of the contest, meaning you can only use reasonably realistic weapons and equipment. I swear to Horny Flying Superman that if anyone’s entries go above 100 words, I’m not reading it.
Honestly, I don’t care about anyone thinking up a genuinely “good” character, I just want to see how silly/insane this can get. One entry per person, and the contest ends on Monday April 19th at 12:01 am EST. FYI, my Kick-Ass review will be up sometime Monday if for some reason you need my approval before seeing it yourself. I hope your weekend is full of beauty cleavages and serpents arses, but also free of elf dicks. See you Monday.
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.