“All Men Are Created Equal. Except Vampires. They’re Assholes.”
What? A new Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter trailer was released over Memorial Day weekend, in which Honest Abe recites the Gettysburg Address heroically as if it had anything to do with killing vampires? Oh well, I’ll forgive it its transparent jingoism because each new trailer is actually getting me more excited for this ridiculous, ridiculous movie. Also because the more successful this film is, the more likely someone will buy my spec script for Teddy Roosevelt: Master of Mummies.
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.