Planet of the One, Particular Ape
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?So… Coming Soon got a calendar from Fox, I guess, and on the calendar there’s a pic of Caesar from the upcoming Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake Rise of the Apes… of just his computer-generated eyes and nose. It looks pretty good, for a fuzzy picture of a calendar with a small portion of a monkey face made on a computer, I suppose. Honestly, I’m not 100% sure why I’m running this pic. I feel like I should, but when I say what it is out loud I feel kind of stupid. I guess my love of Planet of the Apes, Conquest in particular, mo-cap Andy Serkis roles and monkeys all in one is what’s making me run it. Still, I’ll try to make sure I have a whole monkey before I bring this up again.
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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.