The Walking Dead, The Obnoxious Blu-Ray Case
I apologize if this is old news, but I’ve just discovered the limited edition Blu-ray packaging for The Walking Dead season 2 (which you can pre-order here for $70). As you can see, it’s a mini-bust of the screwdriver zombie, in which you flip up the head to get to the Blu-rays inside. Obviously, some people like these sorts of things, and if you do, I don’t begrudge it of you. But personally, as a person who values uniformity in my DVDs and Blu-ray packaging, who needs to maximize his shelf space, and who doesn’t care to have baseball-sized, mediocre sculptures of zombie heads in his living area, I hate it. Like, it makes me angry just to look at it. Even though there’s virtually no chance I’ll ever own it. I think I need to up my medication. (Via Geeks Are Sexy)
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.