In Brightest Coconut Shavings, In Darkest Chocolate Creme-Filled Cake
The incredibly un-nutritious snack food company Hostess is never one to rest on its laurels, except all of the times they do. But rather than wait for the Green Lantern movie to come out next year to enjoy the promotional windfall, the company has dipped its coconut-covered Sno-Balls snack cakes in lethal radiation, slapped a Hal Jordan drawing on the package, and redubbed them Glo-Balls. Because… because… Hal Jordan’s… balls… glow green when he’s in his uniform? Fuck, I don’t know; none of this shit makes any sense. All I know is that I’d rather eat the lethal radiation by itself than coconut. Gross. (Via Rickey Purdin and ComicsAlliance)
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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.