Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Collectible, Part 2
After running that squished pic of the first Scott Pilgrim figure on Monday, Mezco was kind even to 1) confirm it was totally squished, 2) send me a non-squished pic, and 3) send me a pic of the other Scott figure, in his yellow shirt and wearing his jacket. The good news is that both figures will come with a sword and a guitar. The odd news is that while the green-shirt Scott will have a closed mouth head, the yellow-short Scott figure will be half closed-mouth, half-open. The non-news, I guess, is that I still don’t think basic, plain-posed action figures are doing Bryan Lee O’Malley’s art any favors, although I do think the yellow shirt version looks better than the green. And where the hell is a Ramona figure? I’d rather have her than Scott, frankly.
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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.