Batman Has a Thirst for Vengeance, Assuming Vengeance Tastes Like Mountain Dew
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In “honor” of The Dark Knight Rises, Mountain Dew is releasing a special Batman-branded Mountain Dew flavor titled “Dark Berry.” As we all know dark berries are the most vengeance-minded of all the berries, but Topless Robot has secretly learned about some of the other natural and artificial flavors added to this soda to make it the ultimate Bat-beverage:
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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.