A Tiny, Awful Look at the Green Lantern Cartoon
Normally when I run a bootleg trailer of something, I try to be a little circumspect about it so at least a few people can see it before it inevitably gets removed. But this ass-cam video of a snippet of the CG Green Lantern cartoon is so awful — by which I mean impossibly tiny, blurry and shaky, from what I can tell the animation and content seems fine (although admittedly I can barely tell) — that I don’t even care. For the record, the show will 1) apparently be set in space “98% of the time” and 2) it won’t feature Green Lantern’s origin, two things I’m immensely grateful for. Oh, and the Red Lanterns show up in season 1, so we’re moving straight to Geoff Johns’ Skittles Lantern saga, which I’m also fine with. Between this, Avengers and Young Justice, it looks like superhero cartoons are in exceedingly good shape. (Via Comics Alliance)
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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.