Early Thursday Morning with Conan O’Barbarian
What is best in life? Well, it’s probably not this trailer for the new Conan the Barbarian movie, but I think it still looks all right. I mean, it has sex, violence, giant snakes, some magic, Conan looking extremely pissed, a larger battle or two, pretty decent production values, Conan crushing some enemies, some enemies being driven before Conan, and probably the audible sounds of the lamentation of their women. That’s all I was looking for, really.
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.