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STYNK*: Dark Knight Returns, ThunderCats, Iron Man 3, Etc.

STYNK*: Dark Knight Returns, ThunderCats, Iron Man 3, Etc.

By September 5, 2012 Miscellaneous 0 Comment

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? Michael Emerson is going to voice the Joker in DC’s animated Dark Knight Returns. I love Emerson, but I can’t even imagine how that will sound. Although clearly DC isn’t even trying to make their DKR adaptation look like the seminal Frank Miller comic (look at the Joker! Christ!), so maybe how the Joker sounds doesn’t matter. (Via Spinoff)

? ThunderCats is still almost certainly canceled. There’s no official announcement, but the cartoon’s art director says “no one is working on it.” I imagine that’s all the death knell it’s going to get, unfortunately. (Via Tomopop)
? Here’s the English trailer for the first Berserk film, if you’re so inclined. Viz is releasing it on DVD and Blu-ray on November 27th.
? Battlestar Galactica‘s Tricia Helfer will appear on Community as an Inspector Spacetime super-fan. I approve of this mightily. (Via The Mary Sue)

? Speaking ofDoctor Who, here’s the Doctor and Amy Pond singing their absolutely terrible intrepretation of the Who theme song. (Via Buzzfeed)
? Okay, this Iron Man 3 thing is a spoiler — well, it’s a rumor, but if it’s true, it’s a pretty major spoiler, so meet me after the jump. It’s probably not true, though.


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? Remember Tony’s weirdly flesh-colored Iron Man Mark VIII armor revealed at SDCC? (It’s above, if you’re having trouble remembering.) Well, rumors suggest it’s not the Mark VIII at all, but the Mark XLVII — i.e. 47, for those who don’t know their Roman numerals. If true, it means this is the armor that Stark would use to control 40 other armors — Marks IX -XLVI (I love Roman numerals) remotely.

This rumor comes from Latino Review, so I don’t actually believe it’s true (I find their rumor track record to be somewhat below .500, frankly). However, it does fit with the rumors that Iron Man will be fighting multiple armored villains, and would need a way to deal with them simultaneously; also, it would be an appropriately epic final battle for the third film. But back to the first hand, we don’t even know if the multiple armored villains rumor is real, so who the fuck knows. Right now, I’d treat this as a fun thought, but nothing approaching reality. (Via Live for Films)

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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.