Yo This Guy
Mark Cheng is a real American hero. Why? He’s making a G.I. Joe fan movie called G.I. Joe Special Missions: Operations Red Retrieval, for which a teaser trailer is above. It might be missing Sienna Miller as the Baroness, but it does have blood, Snake Eyes without lips, more blood, and no one in a bulky sweater, so I’m putting it well ahead of Rise of Cobra. If you liked this, you might want to check out the ’80s tribute teaser as well — it’s a lot of the same footage, but a different, albeit familiar, soundtrack.
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.