SDCC: The Real, 4-Minute Walking Dead Season 2 Trailer Is Awesome (I’m Told)
The wireless internet here is just the tinest bit spotty, so I personally have not been able to make it to the end of this 4.5 minute preview for season two of The Walking Dead, despite the fact I hit “play” half an hour ago. However, by virtue of how many of you guys have sent it in to me, full of praise, and the way the other sectors of the nerd blogosphere are discussing it, it must be pretty good. Something that, if it doesn’t herald a true return to form exactly, at least shows they know what the strengths of season 1 were — i.e., people banding together when zombies attack, and falling apart when they don’t. Add a few ridiculously graphic zombies death to that and I’m sold.
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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.