Thor Is in Thor!
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?I may be the only person on Earth excited by this news, but I just found out yesterday that Eric Allen Kramer is going to be in the live-action Thor movie. You almost certainly don’t recognize the name, but Kramer played Thor in the The Incredible Hulk Returns TV movie from 1988, which starred Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno and was pretty terrible but totally rocked my face off with awesomeness when I was a young nerd (there a lot to compare it with, admittedly). IMDB doesn’t say who he’s playing, but I don’t care. I can’t imagine this is a coincidence, and it’s just a really, really cool thing to do. Even if I’m the only guy who gives a shit. Now, if they can only get Vincent D’Onofrio to make a cameo…
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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.