Scarface Is Doing All Right for Himself
Those of you who are about to take a lunch break — I highly recommend nuking your Lean Cuisine and coming right back to watch this great 30-minute Batman fan film called “City of Scars” from Bat in the Sun (the guys who did this, among other things). Nerds — which is to say every single person reading these words — will find plenty to nitpick if they want, but I think it’s still really well done. Yeah, the plot is a bit overwrought and the stylized bat-logo on Batman’s chest kinda freaks me out. But still, there’s great costumes and sets and production design, fun appearances by Zsasz and Harley Quinn and Scarface, who runs one hell of a nightclub (ladies can’t resist a little man made of wood, apparently), and there’s obviously a lot of love in this thing. At 30 minutes, I didn’t get to watch the whole thing yet, so I’ll be watching it too. Thanks to Nicole for the tip!
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.