So There’s a Buck Rogers Web Series, or Something
Sci-Fi Wire found a teaser trailer for a Buck Rogers web series, and lost their shit over it. Admittedly, I’m a cold-hearted bastard incapable of giving or receiving love, but I’m not that impressed. It’s a CG spaceship. It has almost no bearing on how the series will end. The guy they hired to be Buck has Emo Peter Parker’s haircut. Most of these web series never end up getting made anyways. So I don’t know. Your little CG cartoon looks dandy, Buck Rogers people. Call me when you’ve got a little more bang with your Buck.
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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.